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58. 

 manu, a multitude, a very great number, a thousand. 



Samoa: mano, manomano, 10,000, a myriad, a great number, innu- 

 merable, the limit of counting. Tonga, Nuguria : mano, 10,000. 

 Maori, Rapanui, Tahiti: mano, 1,000. Hawaii: mano, 400,000, 

 multitudinous. Mangaia: mano, 2,000, innumerable. Mar- 

 quesas : mano, 4,000, any great number. Paumotu : manomano, 

 innumerable. Nukuoro: mano, 100; mano-tini, a very large 

 number. 



59- 

 manubunubu, nobwanobwa, to be soft, sleek as the skin of a newborn pig 

 or infant. 

 Hawaii: nopunopu, thoroughly cooked, soft, spongy, large, plump, 



fat, swelled out ; nopue, plump, round, as a well fed fat hog. 

 Oiun: nubanuba, soft, as cooked food. Kiviri: nunubas, id. Motu: 

 manokamanoka, id. Pokau : manomano, id. Kabadi :manova, id. 



60. 

 mataisau, matakseu, a carpenter. 



Samoa : mataisau, an honorific term for carpenter. 



The derivation from mata as "the eye (or director or master) of cutting" 

 does not seem so valid as that in which I have assigned it to the Samoan 

 matai, one skilled as a master of craft, and sau, a particularized cutting as 

 shown in saupapa to cut off the outer part of a log to make it level and 

 smooth. The Viti matai means carpenter and then by extension a mechanic 

 of any craft. 



61. 

 mauta, mautu, rising ground. 



Polynesia, all signifying mountain: Samoa, Futuna, Mangaia, 

 Maori, Rarotonga, Manahiki, Bukabuka, Fakaafo: maunga. 

 Paumotu : mahunga. Hawaii : mauna. Sikayana : fakamauna. 

 Tahiti: maua. Mangareva: manga. Tonga, Uvea, Niue, 

 Rapanui: mounga. Nuguria: mauna, mouna. 



The derivation suggested as from man to remain firm does not particu- 

 larly appeal to me, although mau-nga is in form a typical noun-making 

 from an attributive in which the verb sense has so strongly developed as 

 to call for such differentiation. I set contra the note that in the languages 

 in which maunga has undergone vowel change {mounga, manga) the pro- 

 posed radical mau as verb remains unaltered. 



62. 

 me, name, namai, a rope, a string. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Uvea: maea, a rope, cord, cable. Nuguria: 

 maia, a band. 



63. 

 mitariki, the Pleiades. 



Polynesia names the Pleiades thus: Samoa: matali'i. Futuna, 

 Tonga: mataliki. Fotuna, Nuguria, Maori, Mangaia, Ma- 



ngareva: matariki. Tahiti: matarii. Hawaii: makalii. 



Marquesas : mataiki. 



