Tregear. — Tin Maori in Aaia. 



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The five, rima, is the old primitive way of counting on the 

 fingers. Tahi, rua, torn, vim, ringa\ — One, two, three, four, 

 hand ! Ringa and rima, (or rather linga and lima) are used in 

 the Malay Archipelago as interchangeable words for hand. 

 Tekau, the Maori ten, is the Greek deka, Welsh deg ; and we see 

 the change into the Teutonic form in another Maori word tiinga- 

 Inini, ten. Tekau and tingahuru are merely changes from ng to 

 /.-, just as the Teutonic form ten changed into Greek deka. In 

 numerals the manner of counting the twenties, thirties, &c, is 

 important: here the Maori is again Aryan, and has one very 

 close English resemblance. The English forty is made from vier, 

 four; tig, ten; viertig, forty, or four tens. The Maori irlia, four, 

 tekau ten, wha-tekau forty ; viertig and wha-tekau being as perfect 

 in derivation as in sound. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Hutchinson I am enabled to 

 lay before you a photograph of the statue of Kamehameha, the 

 King of the Sandwich Islands, in his national dress. The 

 resemblance of the whole figure to that of an ancient Greek 

 warrior is most surprising. 



I must now intreat your patience while I compare the Maori 

 with the European languages. 



Abbreviations. 

 (M.E.) Middle English, (Fr.) French, (O.S1.) Old Slavonic, 

 (Lith.) Lithuanian, (Goth.) Gothic, (Gr.) Greek, (Lat.) Latin, 

 (Scan.) Scandinavian, (Dan.) Danish; (Celt.) Celtic, (Ir.) Irish, 

 (Ga.) Gaelic, <W.) Welsh, (Ice.) Icelandic, (A. S.) Anglo-Saxon, 

 (Teut.) Teutonic, (M.) Maori. 



MAORI. 



(Lat.) aura, the air, aer, the air 



(Gr.) eros, love 



i Goth.) jai, yes, (Eng.i as in 



" Ay, ay, Sir" 

 Goth.) aiws, the world 

 (Gr.) agora, a debating hall 



Ao, the air 

 aroha, love 

 ae, yes 



ao, the world 

 ako, to teach, learn 

 angi, light breeze 

 anene, to blow gently 

 ara, to rise up 



an, smoke 

 here-here, a slave 

 huka, snow, ice 

 hara, a sin 



hamuli, excrement 



humu, the hip-bone 

 hake-hake, the itch 



i(G 



r. ) anemos, the wind 



(Gr.) oro, to rouse, (Lat.) oriri, 



to rise up 

 (Gr.) auo, to burn 

 (Gr.) helot, a slave 

 (Ice.) jokull, an icicle, (Ir.) aigh 

 (Lat.) erro, to stray, err 

 (M. Eng.) mute, to dung 

 (0. Fr.) mutir and esmeut 

 (Eng.) ham, (Ger.) hamma 

 (Ger.) jilehen, to itch. (Scotch) 



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