otoroka

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'"

Rapanui-English dictionary. 2008.

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