282 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



enough of the Nukuoro vocabulary to accept bad-smelling as the definition 

 of mast, though it is fact none the less. 



There is no physical fact in the fermentation of pounded breadfruit to 

 enable us to connect it with the Indonesian and Semitic here proposed. The 

 Malay masin finds its near relative in Nuclear Polynesian masima salt. 



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 sau, gentle breeze, cold air, as in the morning and evening. 



Tonga : haua, to be exposed to the wind, to blow to and fro. Niue : 

 hahau, hauhau, cool. Maori: hau, wind, to be borne on the 

 wind: hauhau, cool. Tahiti: hahau, to go aslant or beat in, 

 as the rain driven by the wind into a house ; haumoe, the cold 

 night breezes of the valleys ; mehau, wind ; puihauhau, to blow 

 gently, as a small breeze; haumaru, cool, grateful. Hawaii: 

 hau, the name of the land breeze that blows at night, any cool 

 breeze ; hauhau, cool ; kehau, the mountain breeze in the morn- 

 ing, a cold fine rain or mist. Marquesas : tohau, a gentle wind. 

 Mangareva: hau, to blow gently. Rapanui: hou, breeze; 



hahau, hauhau, air, breeze; hakahahau, to expose to the air. 



Viti: thauthau, the land breeze. 



Malay: hawa, wind. 



Hebrew : nas'af, to blow ; ncs'ef, the evening twilight when a colder 

 gale blows, the morning twilight. 



In discussing the sau stems which are involved in this and the next 

 two items Mr. Tregear with truth remarks that it is difficult to seg- 

 regate the several senses under proper headings since the significations all 

 pass into one another. The only contribution toward the classification 

 of the matter which I can offer is the note that sau dew belongs to a stem 

 which is either saut or saum in Proto-Samoan, and that saxi to cut derives 

 from a stem in sauf . True, this will not avail much in the present stage 

 of Polynesian with open stems, but it will serve as a safe guide so far as it 

 may go in tracing out earlier affinities. The sau of wind and temperature 

 seems to be from a primitive sau. 



The Semitic identification offered is distinctly triliteral. Even were we 

 to grant that the Hebrew / might become Polynesian u we are still left with 

 an initial n upon our hands and unaccounted for. 



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 sau, the dew. 



Samoa: sau, the dew; sasau, heavy dew; fa'asau, to bedew. Fu- 

 tuna: sau, the dew; fakasau, to expose to dew. Tonga: hahau, 

 dew, mist; haujia, hauhau, wet with dew. Niue: hahau, dew; 

 haumia, bedewed. Uvea: hahau, dew. Maori: hau, haurutu, 

 hauku, haunui, dew; haumaku, hautaku, bedewed, wet. 

 Tahiti: hau, dew; tahau, to bleach clothes in the dew of the 

 morning ; tiohau, to bleach in the dew ; toehaumi, soft or damp 

 as by dew. Hawaii: hau, cold dew. Mangareva: hau, an, 

 dew. Rapanui, Marquesas: hau, id. Rarotonga: au, dew. 



Viti: sasau, dew. 



Malagasy: andu, dew. 



Arabic: nada' (for nadau), dew. 



