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(aroha, aaroa) hakaaroha continued. 

 hakaarohaga love, pity. 

 hakaarohahaga friendship. 

 P Pau. : aroha, love, compassion, to suffer. 

 Mgv. : akaaroa, to love, to cherish. 

 Mq.: ddha, kaoha, kaokaoha, salu- 

 tation, good morning, good night, 

 good bye; love, friendship, good- 

 will, compassion; to love, to salute, 

 to have pity, to regret, to respect, 

 to honor. Ta. : aroha, aroharoha, 

 love.compassion, interest, kindness, 

 pity, mercy, attachment, tender- 

 ness, sympathy; to visit, to have 

 pity, to love, to spare. 

 I must withdraw an earlier note on this 

 word (14 Journal of the Polynesian 

 Society, 44) in which I was led by Tongan 

 of a, to love, to suggest alofa as a composite 

 of alo and ofa. This is negatived by the 

 plural duplication in Samoan alolofa, 

 Hawaiian alohaloha, Paumotu aroharoha, 

 all showing the compounding elements to 

 be a and lofa. Furthermore we find the 

 second element in independent existence 

 in Hawaiian loha and perhaps Tongan ofa 

 (the doubt lying in the vanished /, as to 

 which see note on ariki) ; and in different 

 composition in Marquesan kaoha, where 

 again we encounter in kaokaoha a duplica- 

 tion which varies strangely from the rec- 

 ognized types of that mechanism of 

 Polynesian speech. 

 arova nei the world, the universe; tem- 

 porary. 

 arovae (aro-vae 1) the sole of the foot. 

 PS Sa.: alo, the under side; alofivae, sole. 

 To.: aofivae, id. Fu., Uvea: alo- 

 fivae, id. Moriori: arowa, id. 

 There is such complete accord in sense, 

 such an approximation to form accord 

 in the Samoan as to constitute this an in- 

 teresting problem. For alo the under side 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 193) we 

 find no such protecting form as may 

 show the abraded consonant, if this were 

 in Proto-Samoan a closed stem, unless 

 it be this alofi. We note that another alo 

 to paddle by its objective aspect form 

 alofia is proved to be Proto-Samoan alof; 

 and that 'alo to avoid {'alofia) is Proto- 

 Samoan kalof. Apart from this compac- 

 tion, and from the precisely similar alc- 

 filima the palm, alofi is found independently 

 in the signification "to sit in a circle" 

 and "the circle of chiefs sitting round a 

 house," by no means associable in sense. 

 In Tonga (with a dropping of the inner /, 

 of which there are two excellent items 

 in "The Polynesian Wanderings," items 

 327 and 355) we have aofivae and aofinima 

 respectively. Futuna and Uvea have the 

 Samoan forms alofivae and alofilima; 

 Futuna has also alofitinae (tinae abdomen) 

 in the sense of belly, and this I regard as 

 sufficient to establish alofi and alo as full 

 and abraded forms of one Proto-Samoan 



arovae continued. 



stem alof. Niue, commonly pronounced 

 in Samoan association, has aloalohui and 

 aloalolima. Our Moriori information is 

 scanty, but if wa is the equivalent of vae, 

 arowa is alovae. We regard the Moriori 

 as preserving traces of a southern Proto- 

 Samoan migration to New Zealand. The 

 fact that alo appears in Nuclear Poly- 

 nesia (Niue) is sufficient to establish the 

 position of arovae as Proto-Samoan 

 material. 

 aruaru 1 to pursue. 



P Mgv. : aruaru, to run after, to pursue. 

 Mq.: ai'iau, to pursue, to chase, to 

 follow. Ta. : aruaru, to pursue. 

 aruaru 2 to arise in waves, undulation. 

 P Pau.: puhigaru, a bubble of water. 

 Mgv. : garu, foam, froth. Mq. : nan, 

 waves. Ta. : aru, billow, wave, 

 flood. 

 aruaru 3 (haruharu). 

 arui (ariu metathetic) to turn about to see. 

 Mgv. : arui, to face toward, to turn the 

 head so as to see. 

 arurua general. 



oho arurua, to sail as consorts. 

 Ta.: arurua, mutual. 

 ata 1 image, picture, portrait, design; to 

 draw, to paint (shadow sense). 

 P Mgv. : ata, image, likeness, portrait, 

 shadow of a human being, form, 

 shape, appearance, imprint, impres- 

 sion. Mq. : ata, image, statue, por- 

 trait, shadow, surface; to design, to 

 mark. Ta.: ata, shade, shadow 

 appearance, form, representation 

 of an object, cloud, cloudy. 

 ata 2 transparency, end of day, sunset 

 (bright sense). 

 e ata, red clouds. 

 ku ata, transparent. 

 ata mea, ata tea, ata tehe, dawn, day- 

 break, sunrise. 

 ataata end of day, sunset. 

 P Mgv.: ata, morning or evening twi- 

 light, daybreak, dawn; ata haihai, 

 evening twilight, a beautiful sunset; 

 ataiai, twilight, clouds red with the 

 sunset; atakurakura, a beautiful 

 sunrise or sunset; atareureu, dawn, 

 the first peep of day, morning twi- 

 light. Mq.: ata, to appear, to 

 rise, to shine (of stars); ata ud, 

 morning twilight; ataata, diaphan- 

 ous, transparent. Ta. : ata, twilight. 

 The shadow sense and the bright sense 

 run concurrently in each migration stream. 

 ata 3 a designation of space. 

 ata hakahohonu, abyss. 

 ata hakaneke mat, nearby, ciose at 



hand. 

 ata tapa, lateral, marginal. 

 ata 4 ? 



ata kimikimi, to inquire. 

 ata puo, to hill a plant. 

 ata ui, to examine, to taste. 



