Term
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Origin
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Definition
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Bionicle Use
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Respell
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Wahi
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Māori
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to divide; to split
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region
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Mata
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Māori
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face, countenance
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face; spirit
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Nui
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Māori
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great, large
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great, large
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"Mata Nui"
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"large face"
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great head. The name of the island, and referring to the head of the robot/Great Spirit that lies underneath the island. This is also the name for the robot as a whole
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Papu Niho
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Hawaiian
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from (and originally spelled as) papa niho, row of teeth, set of teeth. papa can also mean reef.
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a jaw; an underwater reef. the official map strangely places this above the robot's forehead. papa was likely initially adjusted to papu since papa already means something in english, but this was awkwardly undone later in 2001, seemingly in the wake of the Māori intervention. The goal of the change is unclear - papa is worse for both direct usage of indigenous language and appearing to reference Papatūānuku
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Papa Nihu
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Leva
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Rotuman
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hair
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hair; a bay
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Motara
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Rotuman
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forehead
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forehead; the desert
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Tiro
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Māori
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view, look, survey
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an eye; a canyon
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Naho
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Hawaiian
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eye sockets
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an eye; a bay
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Hura
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Rotuman
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to fall, be shed (of tears)
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Mafa
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Rotuman
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eyes
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"Hura Mafa"
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"shed from the eye"
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falling tears; a river flowing from Naho bay
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Ihu
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Māori, Hawaiian, Rapa Nui
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nose
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nose; a mountain
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Mangai
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Māori
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mouth
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mouth; the volcano
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Fau
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Rotuman
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cheek, side of face
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cheek; a swamp
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Kauae
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Māori
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jaw, chin
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chin; a lake and a bay
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Kanae
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Kumu
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Rotuman
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from kumkumu, beard or chin
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beard; a chain of islets
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Mangaia
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?Mangaian1; ?Greek
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temporal power; or possibly a concatenation of mangai and gaia
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brain (i.e. temporal lobe); the Makuta's domain
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Pakohu
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Māori
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chasm, gully, cavity
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early term for the Mangaia. at this stage, it was located deep in a canyon in the northern desert (the robot's forehead, which would be over its brain). the forehead chasm survived as Tiro Canyon (see above), though the choice of the word tiro ultimately suggests an eye socket. just a weirdly placed one.
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Tren
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?Danish
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trench
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Krom
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?Danish
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chrome
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"Tren Krom"
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"chrome trench"
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a lava break. i wouldnt describe lava as chrome-colored, but maybe a dane would? it is also possible the 'lava' was concieved as being related to the robot at some point; molten chrome akin to protodermis in 2002-onward incarnations
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Pala
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?Hawaiian
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seaweeds or scum
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a lake
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Biodermis
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English
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early name for protodermis. from biological and epidermis
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The 'skin' or surface of the giant robot (i.e. the subject of the biological chronicle)
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Protodermis
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English
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from prototype and epidermis
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Prototype is presumably attempting to still harken to the robot (who is the source and beginning for the characters)
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