242 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



168. 



utu, ut i, to fill (by immersing) a water vessel. 



vSamoa : utu, to draw water, to fill a bottle, to charge a gun. Tonga : 

 v.tu, to draw water; utufia, to pour out, to run as water from 

 a vessel or tears from the eyes. Futuna : utu, to draw water, 

 to fill with a liquid ; uku, to plunge into the water. Uvea : utu, 

 uutu, to draw water, to pour into. Niue : utu, to draw water. 

 Nuguria: utu, to fill. Maori: utu, to dip up water, to fill 

 with water. Tahiti: utuhi, to dip into the water, to rinse. 

 Mangareva : utuhi, to draw water. Hawaii : ukuhi, to pour, 

 as water into a cask, to fill a vessel with any fluid. Mangaia: 

 uti, to draw water. Fotuna: no-citu, id. Rapanui: uutu, 

 to fill up ; ootu, to draw water. 



Motu: utu, a flood, to draw water. Tanna: atu, id. Aneityum: 

 athun wai, id. 



Arabic: "ata ("a'tu) to immerse. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is utuf. 



Rather more frequently than is the case in general the influence of the 

 radical / is found not only in Nuclear Polynesia but persists to distant 

 extensions of the Tongafiti swarm. The Mangaia uti is singular in Poly- 

 nesia but accords with an alternative Efate form. The irregularity of the 

 initial vowel in Fotuna looks toward the Tanna and Aneityum forms, and 

 they are its close neighbors. 



Dr. Macdonald in his definition squints as usual quite obliquely at the 

 Arabic. It is only by the accident of the container, the common water 

 vessel of the South Sea being the coconut pierced at the eyes, that it is 

 more convenient to fill by immersing. That the immersion in no sense 

 inheres in the word is shown by the Samoan use of utu to charge a gun or 

 to cram tobacco into a pipe, and by the general use of the word to signify 

 pouring out from the container. 



EFATE-MELANESIAN-POLYNESIAN-MALAY. 



169. 

 finanga, food. 



Samoa : sina'aiunga, grayheaded from eating the hermit crab (unga), 

 old but foolish. Tonga: hinakaiunga, grayheaded as a punish- 

 ment for eating the hermit crab. 

 Mota, Marina: sinaga, food. Malo: sinaca, id. Motlav, Omba: 

 hinaga, id. Lo: hinega, id. Sesake: vinaga, id. Duke 

 of York: ivinangan, id. 

 Malagasy: hinana, food. 



There is a possibility that the Efate contains a misprint, for in Dr. 

 Macdonald's alphabet the ng differs from the g by no more than a dot above. 

 The mutation g-ng is by no means impossible, but it is strange that Efate 

 is the only speech except the distant Duke of York in which this word 

 varies from the standard. 



The two words in Nuclear Polynesia have hitherto been a puzzle unsolved. 

 The interpretations offered in the dictionaries of Pratt and Baker respec- 



