284 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



It is impossible to see how the Indonesian and the Semitic, though there 

 is a superficial resemblance between them, can have anything to do with 

 the Efat6 and Polynesian of this item. 



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 tula, earwax. 



Maori, Tahiti : taturi, earwax. Mangareva: teturi, id. Paumotu: 

 katuri, id. Hawaii: kokuli, id. Fotuna: turituri, id. Mar- 

 quesas: tetui, id. 

 Viti: tule, ndule, earwax. 

 Baki: tiro, earwax. Mota: tul, id. 



Malay: chulik, to clear the ears of wax. Bicol: tuli, earwax. 

 Arabic: salah, deafness. 



Because of the fact that the island diagnosticians regard cerumen as 

 the sole cause of deafness and in their practice of medicine not infrequently 

 produce deafness by their exploratory excavation of the ear, and because 

 of the intimate association of this stem with the most common word for 

 deafness, I include the latter for the extension of this record. 



Samoa: tuli, talingatuli, deaf. Tonga: tuli, id. Futuna: tuli- 

 tuli, id. Uvea: tuli, id. Niue: talingatuli, id. Hawaii: 

 kuli, id. Tahiti : turi, taturi, id. Maori: turi, id. Marquesas: 

 tui, to disobey, to turn a deaf ear ; hadtetui, to turn a deaf ear ; 

 putui, deaf, disobedient ; hadputui, to turn a deaf ear. Rarotonga : 

 turi, deaf. Mangareva: turi, noise. Paumotu: taringaturi, 

 disobedient. Fotuna: eturitura, deaf. Nuguria: tarina- 



turi, id. 



Viti: ndalingatule, deaf. 



Motu : tuia, to quiet. 



Malay: tuli, deaf. Matu: turang, id. 



From this it apppears that in the very center of Nuclear Polynesia tuli 

 means deaf, yet that the sense is more precisely conveyed by joining with 

 it the organ affected, talinga being, of course, the outer ear, which is as far 

 as their knowledge of aural anatomy goes. This composite is the only 

 means of recording deafness in Niue, which has not retained the tuli-stem 

 in independent existence. It is the only means in Polynesian Viti (for it 

 has a Melanesian term, ndindivara), which retains tule {ndule) for the ceru- 

 men. In Samoa both talingatuli and tuli exist side by side in the same 

 sense. In the remotest Polynesia of all, the Paumotu, an archipelago of 

 linguistic problem, the word exists in a tropical sense only. But the rest 

 of Polynesia expresses its deafness satisfactorily by tuli, and we find the 

 word in Indonesia and possibly in Motu. 



Now if we regard the employment of tuli for cerumen we shall note that 

 such use extends from Indonesia into Viti. Of Nuclear Polynesia we can 

 not speak with greater precision than to say that all our dictionaries have 

 omitted this sense in defining tuli; at the same time they have neglected 

 to define cerumen at all. But in all eastward Polynesia, the lands of the 

 Tongafiti swarm, it is necessary to reinforce tuli with another element in 

 differentiation from the sense of deafness. This element stems the same 

 throughout this second migration, subject to the normal variation. It is ta 



