In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an ozzy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back again.
Te no’o ra teta’i tangata peneneke i roto i teta’i va’arua i roto i te one.
Kare i te va’arua vi’ivi’i, repo e te mā’ū, tei kī i te ope o te au toke e te aunga kino, e kare katoa oki i te va’arua marō, āteatea, oneone e kare e apinga i roto ei no’o’anga ki runga me kare no te kaikai: e va’arua no te peneneke, e turanga marū tona.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, Te Peneneke, me kare Ki reira e oki akaou mai.
There lived a hobbit in a hole in the ground. It was not a dirty hole, filthy and wet, full of worm ends and filthy smell, and it is not yet dry, wide, sandy and nowhere to sit on or to eat, but it is a hobbit hole, where he can feel comfortable.
Bare – ᾱteatea: e ngai ateatea, kare e pakau i runga, rava no te noonoo i roto i te rua.
Hole – va’arua: e rua teia tei ko’o ia i roto i te one, e ngai noo anga no te peneneke e tetai au manumanu rikiriki.
Hobbits – peneneke, e au tangata potopoto teia mei te tai mita rai ratou i te roa e tumutumu ratou e kare ratou e a’ao tamaka ana.
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