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agatahi (aga-lahi) one. (hagatahi.) 



agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday. 

 hagatahi ahi, yesterday. 

 agera {angera R) angel. 

 agoago hunger, to be hungry, to starve. 

 This suggests a metathesis upon oge of 

 the same sense; but not much value, be- 

 cause of the complication of the vowel 

 mutation, should be assigned to the sug- 

 gestion in the absence of further confir- 

 mation. 

 agu breath, out of breath, air T. 



agu kore, breathless, seeming death, 

 greedy. 

 Mgv.: agu, hagu, to murmur indis- 

 tinctly. Mq.: aku, onomatopoeia 

 to express the sound of one drinking 

 in deep drafts; haku i te pake, to 

 emit smoke at the nostrils. 

 aguagu 



a. out of breath, to puff, to choke, to pant, 



to breathe, to whisper, to sigh. 



b. to be languid, faint, to have a rattling 



in the throat, to be sick unto death, 



to die. 

 tagata aguagu, a dying man. 

 agumou (agu-mou 5) to expire. 

 agupotu (agu-potu) the last moments of 



life. 

 aha which, what. 



e aha, what is it, how. 



ma aha, no te aha, ei aha, on account 



of what, why. 

 PPau.: aha. what, which. Mgv.: aha, 



what; e aha, why, what is it, which. 



Mq., Ta.: aha, e aha, what. 

 The Nuclear Polynesian is c (Samoa, 

 Futuna, Uvea). The extreme length of 

 the quantity of this a shows that the Proto- 

 Samoan was aha and after the extinction 

 of the aspirate the vowel quantity was 

 acquired by crasis. It will be valuable at 

 this point to insert a table showing the 

 range of the Melanesian forms of the neuter 

 interrogative. 



sava Mota, Merlav, Maewo, Marina, Sesake. 



sav Pak, Mosin, Alo Teqel. 



safa Efate' (also sefa, sefe). 



sa Mota, Gog, Sesake. 



hava Omba, Arag, Nggela, Bugotu. 



haha Ambrym. 



hav Motlav, Volow, Norbarbar. 



ha Omba, Ambrym, Lakon. 



va Lo. 



tafa Fagani. 



taha Wango, Ulawa, Aniwa. 



dhava Viti. 



These, if at all associable with aha, rep- 

 resent a distinct and not readily account- 

 able type. In the Tongafiti migration the 

 parent aha is preserved except in Raro- 

 tonga. The Tongan eha exhibits a vowel 

 mutation in the unaccented syllable which 

 is characteristic of that speech. In some 

 cases aha is prefaced by e, which pro- 

 visionally we may take as the verbal 

 paradeictic, see note under ae. The occur- 

 rence of the Tongafiti forms is: 



aha continued. 



aha Tahiti, Marquesas, Paumotu, Tongarewa, 



Hawaii, Sikayana (ae-aho, fe-aha). 

 aa Rarotonga. 

 eaha Tahiti, Mangareva. 

 eaa Rarotonga. 



ahatu to stretch out. 



moe vae ahatu, to lie with the legs 

 extended. 



ahau 1 a scar. 



ahau hurihuri, cicatrix. 



ahau 2 (hau 5). 



ahe migraine, headache, (eahe.) 



ahea (a 8-hea) when. 



P Mgv. : aea, ahea, when. Mq., Ta. : afea, 

 ahea, id. 

 The stem is fea, but at the stage when 

 we make the acquaintance of these lan- 

 guages need has arisen for differentiation 

 and the simple stem is used in interroga- 

 tion of place, where?; when used of time 

 a preface is employed, o for the present- 

 future, ana for the past, and the stem has 

 thereby undergone evolution. The root 

 is a, of which the seed signification is that 

 which is away from the speaker in time 

 or place alike (Cf. 27 American Journal 

 of Philology, 393). In Nuclear Polynesia 

 we encounter a most unusual sacrifice of 

 the very soul of the word in Tonga and 

 Niue afe, Tonga anefe, Niue nefe. The 

 aea form of Mangareva is repeated in 

 Rarotonga, which lacks / and h. 



aheahe a stool. 



ahere 



a. to arrive, to come, to follow, (aere.) 



b. to march, to march with arms and legs 



stiff, to take a walk, to row, to sail. 



c. to raid. 



ahere koroiti, to run lightly. 



ahere no, to roam, to ramble. 



ahere atu ahere mai, zigzag. 



rata ahere, agile, without fixed abode, 

 wanderer. 



tagata aere, voyager. 



aherehere, unstable, instability. 

 P Pau.: haere, to go, to come. Mgv. : ere, 

 to walk, to march, to go. Mq.: 

 hee, to go, to march, to depart, to 

 follow. Ta. : haere, to go. 

 The form of the word appears in Sa- 

 moan saele with the meaning to swing the 

 arms in walking. This restriction to a 

 particular causes me to regard the word 

 as a borrowing from the Tongafiti in 

 Nuclear Polynesia. In Uvea haele is to 

 walk. In Futuna saele signifies to go, to 

 walk ; and in Niue haele is to go, to come, 

 to proceed. In Tonga haele means to go, 

 to come, to walk, to travel, to voyage, 

 and its restriction to chiefs tends to prove 

 it a borrowing by Proto-Samoans from 

 Tongafiti. The reduplication offers a 

 problem, in Tonga haeleele and Maori 

 haereere, but in Futuna saesaele; this makes 

 the etymology doubtful. The Rapanui 

 is an unusual metathesis. Indeed, so 

 unusual is the inversion of consonant and 



