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tai na, brother's brother, sister's sister. 



The Proto-Samoan radical is tehi, as shown by Niue, Tonga and Uvea. 



Samoa: tei, younger brother or sister. Niue: tehina, younger 

 brother. Tonga : tehina, younger brother or sister. Uvea : 

 tehina, brother, sister. Rarotonga, Paumotu, Mangareva, 

 Tahiti, Maori: teina, younger brother or sister. Marquesas: 

 teina, a younger brother. Sikayana : teina, brother. Futuna : 

 taina, brother's brother, sister's sister. Hawaii: kaina, the 

 younger of two brothers or of two sisters. 



Viti : tathi, a younger brother or sister. 



Mota: tasi-k, brother. Malo, Laur, Lamassa, Lambell, Kiriwina, 

 Dobu: tasi, id. Epi: fo/w, id. Motu : tadi, younger brother 

 or sister or cousin. Malekula : test, brother. King: dirsi, id. 

 Bauro: asi, id. Santo : tesi-na, his younger brother. Pala: 

 tes, tasi, brother. Keapara, Hula, Galoma: art, id. Waima: 

 hati, id. Kabadi: kadi, id. Misima, Panaieti: tari, id. 



Sinaugoro: tali, id. 



Malay: adik, brother. Bugi: ami, id. Malagasy: zandri, id. 



Arabic: rasi', brother. 



The initial consonant is t in Polynesia (Hawaii k), and in Melanesia, with 

 the single exception of Bauro asi where it is dropped ; this is our only Bauro 

 word, so that we are without information as to the frequency of the frontal 

 abrasion of this mute, but it is not unknown in Melanesia. The change to 

 d in King is normal. 



The aspiration is found in Epi ; it undergoes the normal transition to the 

 sibilant in Mota, Malo, Laur, Lamassa, Lambell, Malekula, Bauro, Santo; 

 its mutation to th in Viti is usual; the sound in King is not quite clearly 

 identified, it was collected by the same German explorer who gathered 

 Laur, Lambell and Lamassa ; Efate alone drops the aspiration ; the Motu 

 d is normal to that New Guinea settlement; and elsewhere in Melanesia, 

 involving the surd instead of the sonant, is found in Alite, Saa and Wango. 



The final vowel is constant. 



Of the former vowel there are two main groups. Polynesia generally, 

 and Malekula and Santo have e; Melanesia generally, and Viti, Futuna and 

 Hawaii have a. King again stands in a class by itself with i. 



In Santo the na is clearly possessive suffix, such also is the k in Mota. 



The only common element in Indonesia is a-i parted by a consonant, 

 which is not the aspiration or a normal mutation thereof; the initial con- 

 sonant is absent. We can not accept this identification. The Malagasy 

 may be associable with Bugi, certainly not with the Proto-Samoan. 



EFATE-POLYNESIAN. 

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 alo, belly, abdomen, the front, before. 



Samoa: alo, the under side (as of a cloth or the belly of a fish), a 

 chief's belly, the seat of the affections. Tonga: alo, the 



abdomen of great personages. Futuna : alo, the entrails, in the 



