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reflected image. Futuna: ata, shadow, twilight. Fotuna: 

 ata, ghost, shadow, image. Tahiti: ata, shadow, twilight. 

 Marquesas: ata, shadow, likeness. Mangaia: ata, shadow, soul, 

 dawn. Mangareva : ata, shadow, image, twilight. Nukuoro: 

 ata, shadow. Fila : ata, the soul. Uvea : aata, shadow ; ata, 

 image. Moriori: ateata, dawn. Hawaii: aka, shadow, 



likeness, dawn. Nuguria: te ata te mahina, the waning moon. 

 Rapanui: ata, image, picture, dawn, break of day, close of day; 

 ataata, close of day. 

 Mota: ata, soul. Bierian: ata mate, ghost. 



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 ati na, nati, nutu, child. 



Maori: ati, descendant, a prefix to tribal names as descendants of 

 certain persons. Samoa: ati, a particle denoting a number 

 of chiefs of the same name or title. Tahiti : ati, patronymic 

 prefix grouping the name of an ancestor with the descendants. 

 Mangareva : ati, descendant. Also, Maori : ngati, patronymic 

 tribal prefix, descendants of. Mangaia: ngati, a tribe. 



Omba : nati, native of. Makura : nati, son, people of. Bierian : 

 nati, son. Makelula: anati, netin, child. Malo, Nguna: 

 natu, son. Baravon: natu, son. LambeH: natu, child. 



Wagawaga: natu, son, child of a woman's sister. Tubetube: 

 natu, child, grandchild, child of a woman's sister, child of brother 

 of man or woman. Motu: natu, son, daughter, brother's son. 

 Sinaugoro, Suau, Sariba, Panaieti, Dobu, Tavara, Awalama, 

 Taupota, Wedau, Galavi, Boniki, Mukawa, Kubiri, Raqa, Kiviri, 

 Oiun: natu, child. Kabadi, Pokau, Doura: naku, offspring, 

 child. Roro, Hula: nahu, child. Kiriwina: latu,\&. Keapara, 

 Galoma: nau, id. Mekeo: ngaunga, id. King: nutu, child. 

 Lamassa: nutu, child. Matupit: tu, son. Duke of York, 

 Pala, Moanus: nat, child. Lamassa: fandt, child. 



The existence of the ati-nati in Efate and Maori ati-ngati shows that the 

 common Polynesian forms are the result of frontal abrasion. The pre- 

 sumably older complete form holds throughout Melanesia, except as noted 

 below, and the n undergoes no change. So, too, the second consonant 

 remains unaltered except that in Kabadi t-k shows a far western instance 

 of a change which is resistless in parts of Polynesia to-day. The former 

 vowel remains without alteration throughout Melanesia except for the 

 w-form of King and Lamassa on the New Ireland coast, yet the presence 

 of the a in Duke of York within eyeshot shows this a merely local variant. 

 The principal variation involves the final vowel. Polynesia and the central 

 New Hebrides (Efate, Omba, Makura and Malekula) have i. Nguna in 

 the same tract of the New Hebrides has u, thence we encounter no record 

 of the word until we find the w-form in the extreme north in Torres Straits, 

 Baravon, Lambell, King and Lamassa. Duke of York and Moanus nat 

 may be an abrasion of nati or natu, but from the fact that they lie in the 

 natu region the latter is probably their source. Matupit tu and Lamassa 

 fandt are included more on account of general suggestion of resemblance 

 than from established identification. 



