All other combinations of vowels are to be sounded separately; thus, oe, you, and roa, distant, are dissyllables.
In sounding the consonants, H is always aspirated; the letters K and T, L and R, B and P, are frequently substituted for each other.
Thus, kanaka, tanata, people; ooroo, ooloo, bread-fruit; boa, poa, a hog.
Where the words are separated by a comma, they are synonymous, and either may be used; but where there is no comma, both must be used.
Example. Taate, Keike tanne, a boy.
It frequently happens that the same word is repeated twice, in which case it is connected with a hyphen; thus leepe-leepe, an axe.
| A | |
| Above | Aroona |
| Adze | Toe |
| Afraid | Macaoo |
| After me, come | Mamooraao, peemaio |
| Afterwards | Mamoore |
| Agreable | Nawee-nawee |
| American, an | Tanata, Merikana |
| Angry | Hoohoo |
| Arm, the | Poheva |
| Arrow | Eeoome |
| Ashore | Ayooka |
| At | Eia |
| Avaricious | Peepere |
| Aunt | Titooa waheine |
| Axe | Leepe-leepe |
| Apple | Oheea |