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tautia

Bingham

táutia

vt. to treat one with stinginess.

táutia

n. a soldier, a company of soldiers.
note. probably a corruption of the english word soldiers [but ingintauti = thorny skin of a tauti used as a helmet].

Sabatier

tautia

vt. tatautia: to be niggardly... towards, to refuse to give through meanness.
ex. ti tautiaki: we got nothing, we were refused.

tautia1

or. tautie.
n. soldier.