202 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



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 bubu, to gargle. 



Samoa: pupu, to gargle, to rinse out the mouth. Tonga: bubu, 



to gargle. 

 Arabic: ba'ba', ba'ba'u, gurgling sound of water flowing from a 

 bottle. 



86. 



bulifulia, mabulu, mafulu, swollen here and there, fat. 



Samoa: fula, dropsy of the belly, stout; fulafula, swellings on the 

 body ; fufula, to swell ; fulafula, fulanga'i, to be swollen. Tonga : 

 fula, a tumor, a hard swelling ; fufula, to swell ; bubula, a swell- 

 ing, protuberance, to swell, to bloat. Futuna: fula, fufula, 

 fulafula, pula, to swell. Niue": fufula, to swell. Uvea: fufula, 

 mapula, id. Hawaii: hula, a swelling, a protuberance under 

 the arm or on the thigh. Fotuna : no-fura, to swell ; niko-fura, 

 swollen. 



Hebrew: 'afal, to swell up, to be tumid. Arabic: 'afila, to have a 

 tumor or hernia. 



The Proto-Samoan radical being fulang we should look for the final con- 

 sonant in Efate. Since it is not found, since even the vowel is different, 

 we are not to accept this identification as altogether satisfactory. The 

 labial uncertainty, however, is perhaps critical. The hesitation as to the 

 employment of the spirant or the mute is carried along into Nuclear Poly- 

 nesia ; Tonga uses surd spirant and sonant mute ; Futuna and Uvea use 

 surd spirant and surd (their only) mute. 



The Semitic is still farther away from the mark. 



87. 



buri, biri, to pierce, to stick. 



Samoa: velo, to cast a spear or dart, to spear. Tonga: velo, to 

 dart. Futuna: velo, velosi, to lance. Uvea: velo, to cast; 

 impulse, incitement. Niue: velo, to throw a spear or dart. 

 Maori : wero, to stab, to pierce, to spear. Tahiti : veto, to dart 

 or throw a spear. Mangaia : vero, to pierce, to lance. Manga - 

 reva: vero, to lance, to throw a spear. Marquesas: veo, to 

 lance, to throw a spear. 

 Ethiopic: barara, to stick, to stab. 



The Proto-Samoan radical being velos brings this under the same com- 

 ment as in the last preceding item. 



elo, el', lolo, sweet, pleasant, agreeable. 



Hawaii: olu, to be pleasant, agreeable. 

 Arabic: hala', halw', to be pleasant, agreeable. 



Without more data we may neither wholly affirm nor quite deny this 

 identification as between Melanesian and Polynesian. The sole point of 

 Semitic resemblance lies in the possession of /. 



