238 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



163. 



telatela, matulu, mutultul, matoltol, large, swollen. 



Samoa: tele, latele, vatele, large. Mangareva: terc, to be fat, to 



swell out. Maori: tetere, large, swollen. Hawaii: kelekele, 



fat, plump, large. 

 Samoa : matolutolu, matontou, thick (of pork only) . Tonga, Futuna, 



Nukuoro: matolutolu, thick. Niue: matolu, id. Uvea: matolu, 



thickness. Hawaii : viakolu, wide, thick. Maori: matotoru, 



thick. Fotuna, Tahiti: matoru, id. Mangareva: matoru, 



fat, thick. Marquesas: motou, thickness. 

 Mota: matoltol, thick. Epi: torn, large. Norbarbar: motoltol, 



thick. Nguna: matulu, id. Baki: mererolu, id. Malekula: 



metetir, id. 

 Hebrew: W*r, large, great. 



Dr. Macdonald includes in his identifications Samoa telatela, which, if 

 valid, would avail to connect the two groups which follow. Unfortunately 

 this identification is form resemblance only, for telatela in Samoan is the 

 clitoris and in no way associable with the signification of these stems. Yet 

 without this there is abundant reason to consider matolu a conditional 

 derivative of tele. If this be the fact, the conditional, which remains practi- 

 cally uniform, must be held to preserve a primitive which since then, in its 

 unsupported state, has developed other vowels. 



In the Melanesian identifications all is plain except Baki and Malekula. 

 They seem to have me as the conditional element. The primitive, then, 

 will appear in Baki as rerolu and in Malekula as tetir, evidently reduplica- 

 tions. In view of the plural preduplication of Samoa tele tetcle Malekula 

 tetir seems explicable in form and interesting as exhibiting the much desired 

 transition form between tele and matolu. Baki rerolu, apart from the irregu- 

 larity of vowel change in duplication, would argue a t-r mutation. This is 

 unusual but not impossible. These data afford four examples, which are 

 here presented for consideration : futi (329) banana Moanus mbur; ate (276) 

 liver Malekula ere Efate are; fatu (294) a stone Malekula var; talinga (350) 

 ear Malekula riring. The last I withdraw for reasons which will be offered 

 sub voce. The Baki form may pass. 



164. 



tere, teretere, (a) the comb of a cock ; (b) the eaves of a house. 



(a) Samoa: tala, a thorn, the barb of a spear, the spur of a cock; 

 talatala, prickly, thorny, rough. Tonga: tala, a thorn, the 

 pricking fin on the back of a fish ; talatala, tala, thorny, prickly. 

 Futuna : tala, thorn, horn of an animal, fin of a fish ; talatala, 

 prickly, thorny . Niue : talatala, prickly. Uvea : tala, thorn, 

 horn ; talatala, prickly. Nuguria, Nukuoro : tara, a thorn. 



Maori : tara, a point, as a spear point, spines in the dorsal fin of 

 a fish, membrum virile, clitoris ; taratara, a spine, spike, prickly, 

 rough. Tahiti: tara, a horn, thorn, cock's spur; taratara, 

 prickly, thorny. Rapanui: tara, a horn, spine, thorn. Hawaii. 

 kakala, rough with sharp points ; kalakala, thorny. Mangareva : 



