196 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Micronesian names for the same constellation : Ponape : makeriker. 

 Lamotrek : magarigar. Yap : magirigir. Mortlocks : marikir. 



EFATE-VITI-POLYNESIA. 

 64. 

 bule, a shell, lit. gleaming, shining, glittering; cf. bila 284. 



Samoa : pule, a white cowry, general name for marine shells ; pulepule, 

 small shellfish; pulei, to be checkered, to be mixed alternately 

 as different colored beads in a necklace; pulepule, spotted, 

 striped with various colors. Tonga: bule, a cowry; bulebule, 

 a shellfish; bulevaka, the white cowry; bulebule, spotted. 

 Futuna: pule, a univalve shell; pulepule, striped, spotted 

 with various colors. Niue: pule, the cowry; pulepule, striped, 

 variegated. Uvea: pulepule, variegated. Hawaii: pulepule, 

 varicolored, spotted, speckled. Tahiti, Rapanui: purepure, 

 spotted, checkered. Mangareva: akapurepure, to color, to 

 variegate. Paumotu : hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Maori : 

 opure, pied, variegated. Rapanui, Nuguria: pure, a shell. 

 Viti : mbuli, the white cowry. 



Mota: pule, a very dark cowry shell. Miriam: ka-(a shel\)-buli- 

 buli, a small univalve. 



65. 

 fiso, an annual reed-like plant whose top is used for food. 

 Samoa : fiso, wild sugar cane. Proto-Samoan : f iho. 

 Viti: vitho, wild sugar cane. 

 Mota: viso, a reed with edible flower head. Motu: hido, id. 



66. 

 ngongo, an aquatic bird, to wade. 



Samoa: ngongo, the tern (Sterna longipennis) . Tonga, Niue: 



ngongo, the sea gull. Futuna: ngongo, the name of a bird. 

 Viti: ngongo, a sea bird. 

 The proposed derivation through Samoan 'a'au to swim from Arabic 

 hamma is not convincing. 



67. 



kie, the plant whose leaf is baked, dried and split into threads to be woven 



into mats. 



Maori: kiekie, the name of a climbing plant (Freycinetia banksii), 



the leaves and fiber were formerly used in making fine mats. 



Tonga : kie, a mat ; kiekie, a girdle. Futuna : kie, a mat ; kiekie, 



a species of liana. Rarotonga : kie, the Freycinetia banksii. 



Marquesas : kiekie, moss resembling a fine beard. Tongarewa : 



kie, the pandanus leaf, the mat woven therefrom. Mangareva: 



ngie, small pandanus leaves used in mat-making. Samoa: 



'ie, fine mats; 'ie'ie, a Freycinetia used in making fish traps. 



Tahiti : ie, a sail (of matting) ; ieie, fibrous roots used in basketry. 



Hawaii : ie, a vine used in basketry, material braided into mats. 



Viti: kiekie, fine mats, pandanus whose leaves are used in mat 



making. 



