200 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



77- 

 usu, iu, u, a reed. 



Samoa: u, a reed. 



Malekula: ui, a reed. Epi: yi, id. 



The community of u in Samoa and Efate together with the presence of 

 the longer form usu in the latter argues in favor of usu as the earlier radical, 

 which has been preserved in Efate. We are not without examples in these 

 comparisons of the possibility of a double terminal abrasion, first the 

 abrasion of a final vowel, then the abrasion of the consonant thereby 

 exposed, thus presenting a new vowel final. This seems rather to have 

 been the method than the bodily dropping of a final syllable. This note 

 will be found extended in 98. 



Malekula and Epi are by no means satisfactorily identified. They seem 

 much more distinctly to be variants of some radical of which i is the con- 

 stant component. 



EFATE-POLYNESIAN-MALAY. 



78. 

 ne, here, there, this, that. 



Samoa: nei, this, here. Mangareva, Aniwa, Sikayana, Futuna, 

 Uvea, Nuguria, Niue: nei, this. Maori: nei, denoting near 

 position. Tahiti: nei, here, now, this. Hawaii: nei, this 

 (of place, time, person) . Marquesas: nei, here, now. Paumotu: 

 nei, here. Nukuoro: net, now. Rarotonga: ainei, this. 

 Tonga: ni, this. 

 Macassar: inni, this. 



79- 

 tumatuma i, to knock, as at a door as a sign to open it. 

 Samoa: tuma, to strike with the knuckles. 

 Malay: antam, to knock. 



EFATE-POLYNESIAN-SEMITIC. 



80. 

 aliali, taliali, to delay, be slow. 



Hawaii : alia, to wait, to stop one when doing a thing, to restrain, 

 used imperatively, stop ! wait ! take care ! stand aside ! Tahiti : 

 aria, stop ! hold ! Mangareva : karia, an interjection used to 

 show off a thing in the sense "there! do you see!" Samoa: 

 tali, to wait for; fa'atali, id. Futuna, Uvea: tali, tatali, to 

 wait for, to expect. Maori : tatari, to wait, to tarry. Tahiti : 

 tatari, to wait, to delay. Rapanui: tatari, to wait for. 

 Nukuoro : hakatari, to wait. Hawaii : kali, to wait, to tarry, 

 to stay. Tonga: tali, to wait for. Rarotonga: tatari, to 

 wait. Marquesas: tetai, to wait for, to stay for. 



Arabic: ala (alu), alia', to delay, be slow. 



Particular interest attaches to the synonymy in Efate of two forms, 

 each of which is found in Polynesia though never again are they brought 



