244 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



172. 

 bwala, to be smooth. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea: molemole, smooth. Nukuoro: 

 molemole, soft. Hawaii: molemole, smooth, bald. Tahiti: 

 moremore, id. Maori: more, bare, plain, bald. Mangareva: 

 akamore, to decapitate, to cut off horns. Paumotu : moremore, 

 without hair on the body, polished. 

 Malagasy: bory, deprived of, shorn, cropped, polled. 

 Arabic : mara, maur', to fall off or pluck out, as wool or hair. 



173- 

 biau, beau, biaufiau, biafiau, a wave; biaufiau, to be raised in waves, 

 rough sea. 

 Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Fotuna, Niue, Marquesas, Nuguria: peau, 



a wave. Mangareva: peau, peahu, id. 

 Viti: mbiau, a wave. 



Tanna: peau, a wave. Aneityum: ne-peau, id. 

 Malay : ombak, a wave. 



Ethiopic: ababi, waves. Arabic: 'ubab, id. 



174. 

 bule, fule, complete (adverbial). 



Tonga : fuli, fulibe, all, everyone. Futuna : fuli, all, universal ; fuliai, 



all without exception. Uvea: fuli, all, universal, the whole. 

 Malay: bulah, the whole. 

 Arabic: bala' l a, bulu", to complete, to go through to the end. 



175- 

 busf, to blow, to spout as a whale. 



Samoa : pusa, to send up a smoke (applied also to dust, spray, vapor), 

 Nukuoro: pusa, steam. Fotuna: noh-pusa, to rise (of dust). 

 Tonga: buhi, to spit; bubuhi, to spout as the whale, to blow 

 anything from the mouth. Futuna : pupusi, to blow, a blast 

 of wind. Niue: puhi, to spurt out. Uvea: pupuhi, to blow. 

 Maori: puhi, to blow. Tahiti: pupuhi, to blow the fire, to 

 blow out a candle; puhipuhi, to blow with the mouth, with a 

 fan, with bellows. Hawaii: puhi, to blow (as wind), to blow 

 (the fire, a shell), to puff, to spout. Marquesas : puhi, to blow, 

 to breathe. Mangareva: puhi, to blow. Paumotu: puhipuhi, 

 to blow. Rarotonga: pupui, id. 

 Malay: ambus, ambusi, to blow; ambusan, bellows. Malagasy: 



mifufutra, to blow the bellows. 

 Arabic: nafat'a, nafah'a, to blow out, to puff, to eject spittle. 

 I do not take cordially to Dr. Macdonald's inclusion of Samoan pusa in 

 his identification. This word is found also in Nukuoro and Fotuna and 

 nowhere else in Polynesia. The accord of all other instances upon pusi, 

 evidently pus advanced in manufacture by the verb-formative i, renders it 

 well-nigh impossible that this rare and rigidly Proto-Samoan pusa can be 

 associable therewith. The only difference between the two pusi senses is 

 that to spout is blowing made visible; this sense in Polynesia appears in 

 Tonga, Niue, and Hawaii. 



