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Apooava, _A shallow wooden dish they drink Ava out of_. Etoohe, toohee, _A particular sort of cloth_. Ootee, or otee, otee, _To cut_. Pappaneeheomano, _A wooden instrument beset with shark's teeth, used to cut up those they kill_. Maheine, _A wife_. Homy, _Give me_. Moena, or moenga, _A mat to sleep on_. Eeno, _An adjunct, when they express any thing good, though by itself, it signifies bad. Thus they say_, Erawha eeno, _good greeting, as the Otaheitans say_, Ehoa eeno, _or my good friend_. Taboo, or tafoo, _Any thing not to be touched, as being forbid. This is an example that shews the transmutation of the_ H, F, _and_ B, _Atooi_. English. _into each other. Thus at Otaheite yams are_ oohe, _at Tonga_ oofe, _at New Caledonia_ oobe; _and here_ taboo _is_ tafoo. Maooa, _I_, first person singular. Heno, _Little rods, about five feet long, with a tuft of hair on the small end_. Patae, _Salt_. Aheia, _A round pearl-shell_. Teanoo, _The cold arising from being in the water_. Tammata, _The sense of taste_. Ootoo, _A louse_. Ehone, _To salute by applying one nose to the other._ Ehogge _at New Zealand, and_ Ehoe _at Otaheite_. My, _A sore of any kind_. Oura, _or_ ouraa, _Cured; recovered; alive; well_. Mango, _A shark_. Te _and_ he, _The_. Heneeoohe, _An instrument made of a shark's tooth fixed on a wooden handle, to cut with_. Eea, _An adjunct, as at Otaheite, to give strength to an
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