preposition expressing the cause, the reason: because of (also i):
e-tahataha-á te vaka o te tokerau. the boat rocks from side
to side because of the wind.
lest, in order not to... e-ûi
koe o higa, be careful not to fall.
sometimes used as conditional: if,
whether; ina kai agiagi au o tu'u-mai te Matu'a, I don't know if
the Padre has arrived.
article sometimes used preceding proper
names; ó Hotu Matu'a, ó Santiago.
to answer saying "oh"; ana
ragi te tagata ki te rua tagata, "hé koe?",
he-ó-mai, he-kî: "ó, î au", when
a man calls another, asking "where are you?" [the other]
answers saying "oh, I am here."
o, to celebrate a festival: he-o i te gogoro.
oaha,
interjection abbreviated from oaha
to'u veveveve - why your hurry, wait a bit; oaha, anirá, wait
a bit, I'll do it (what you request).
Oaha hía - why could it be that ... (not) .. : oaha hia i a koe - o
te aha koe i-ta'e haga-ai, why could it be that you don't want (to do
something, or to accept an invitation); oaha hía te miro i-ta'e
oho-mai-ai? why could it be that the boat has not arrived?
oga, to lean out; to go have a look: ka-oho, ka-oga te miro o te
Ariki ó Hotu Matu'a. go and see (if) the boat of King Hotu
Matu'a (has arrived).
ogahé, since when? how long? agahé te maîka nei? since
when, how long have this bananas been here?
oge, food shortage; he ta'u o te oge, famine year; kaiga
oge nuinui, land of great food shortage.
ogeoge,stench of rotting corpse.
ohe, bamboo.
ohi, stalk of some plants.
ohio, iron; modern word used for any metal and also for iron axes
and coins.
ohirohiro, waterspout (more exactly pú
ohirohiro), a column of water which rises spinning on itself.
ohipa, stone enclosure.
oho,
to go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e.
"goodbye" said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very
often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á
te tagata, the man has gone;
also rauoho, hair.
ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return.
ohu,
to cry, to bawl: e-ohu-á te
poki i uta, there is a baby bawling up here.
circle; circular, round; haka-ohu, to
form a circle, to sit in a circle.
oi,to move away, to withdraw (usually with atu): ka-oi-atu,
move out ot the way; oi-mai, to approach, to draw near.
ôi,to stir something; iterative; ôiôi.
o'i, to pull out plants which have grown too close together in
order to leave more space between them: to thin out.
o'io'i, maggot.
oira, adverb: because of that.
oira,oira ... ká-, before (preceding past actions,
not future): oira au ka-tu'u-mai, before I came here; oira
ka-tomo mai Hotu Matu'a ki te kaiga nei, he tagata o nei, before Hotu
Matu'a came to this island, there were people here.
oka,
lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground
with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables;
used generally in the meaning of making plantations.
the four sideways poles supporting a hare
paega.
okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick
repeatedly.
okioki, to buzz, to ring (ears); buzzing;
e-okioki-á te naonao, the mosquitoes are buzzing; ku-okioki-á
te me'e i roto i tooku tariga, something is buzzing in my ear, my ear
is ringing.
oko, okooko, to take all, leaving nothing
behind; te ga ipoki ku-okooko-á i te hoga'a mámari, the
children took the nest with the eggs.
oko,to grow well and be about to ripen; ku-oko-á te
maîka, te kumara the bananas and the sweet potatoes have grown
well and are just about ready.
ômaôma,emaciated.
omo, to suck.
omoaga, bulky cloud, cumulus: ragi omoaga.
omoomo, to suck repeatedly, to suckle.
omotahi, to win everything at a game (lit: to suck whole): omotahi-mai-á
e au, he has cleaned me out.
omotohi, full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the
moon is full.
one, sand.
oneone,(reduplication of oone which see below) dirty, covered
in soil, in mud.
o'o, to enter; he-o'o kiroto ki te hare, to enter a house.
o'oa, to crow (of rooster).
ooka, to perforate, to stab, to prick: ku-ooka-á te
îka hai patía. the fish is transpierced by the harpoon.
ooku, possessive pronoun: mine (see also aaku).
oona, possessive pronoun: his, hers, its. (see also aana).
oone, ground, soil; mud; dirty, to get dirty.
ootu,
to be cooked, cooking; ku-ootu-á
te kai, the food is cooked; ina kai ootu rivariva te umu, (the
food in) the oven is not well cooked.
ópoópo, to eat greedily, smacking one's
lip; ópoópo i te mâmari, to gobble down an egg.
ora,
alive; healthy; to recover, to be saved
(from an illness or a danger): ku-ora-á, ina kai mate, he
recovered, he did not die; ku-ora-á te haoa, the wound has
healed; e-ora-no-á, he is still alive; ora-haka-ou mai, to
come back to life; ora ké, what a pleasant breeze! (lit:
how healthy!)
stick for spinning top (made from the
shell of a sandalwood nut) with which children make the top spin.
oraga, life (in the meaning of existence, or as the present or future
state of the soul); salvation, rescue from death; resurrection: te
oraga-haka-ou-mai.
oro,
to flit in the air (of a bird), turning
and flying up and down.
to file, to scratch, to scrub, to grind,
to sharpen; ka-oro te kumara, grind the sweet potatoes; ka-oro
te hoe, sharpen the knife.
orooro, to rub, to polish, to shine.
oru, pig.
otea, dawn, morning; daytime from dawn to dusk; ka-otea-ró
(work all night) until dawn.
oti, to come to and end; to suffice, to be enough: ku-oti-á,
it is finished; ina kai oti mo kai, there is not enough to eat;
he-oti á, there isn't anymore left, it's the last one; it's
enough with that.
otoroka,according to old Eva Hey (who died in 1946) this was a greeting
(today unknown). It seems to be the same as that which, according to Karl
Friedrich Behrens (1722), a native directed at Roggeveen's ships, the
first native to board the ensign ship and who, upon going back,
"raised both hands and with his eyes turned to the island, shouted:
'Odorroga, Odorroga'"
Ovakevake, according to ancient beliefs, the
home of the spirits called ákuáku: i Hiva, i Ovakevake. Some
natives remember that old people told them that when the first
missionaries arrived several ákuáku took their leave,
saying that they were returning to Hiva, to Ovakevake. Another
place where ákuáku supposedly lived before coming
here was, according to the ancient belief, Maru a Pó, in Tahiti.