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and our Baki material is so scanty, this being the only case involving s, 



that we can neither prove nor dispute it. 



The Java suluh seems good, for in cases where form and sense are in 



perfect accord we need not exact corroboration from other Indonesian 



sources. 



183. 



tabwa n, tauba na, side, shore. 



Samoa: tapa, the uncolored border of a bast cloth. Tonga: tapa, 

 the border or edge of bast cloth or of anything; kapa, the 

 corners and edges of anything. Niue: tapa, side. Rapanui: 

 tapa, edge, border, fringe, cloth, clothing. Maori: tapa, the 

 margin, the edge, the brim of a vessel. Mangareva: tapa, 

 bast cloth, the border of cloth. Marquesas: tapa, bast cloth. 

 Tahiti: tape, a fragment of cloth; tapemoana, the edge of the 

 deep water. Hawaii: kapa, bast cloth, bank, shore, side. 



Malay: tapi, edge, border. 



Arabic: taff , side, shore. 



The sense of side, without particular restriction, is found in Efate, Niue, 

 Maori. The specialized sense of the border of the bast cloth, which is 

 absent from Efate, is found to the exclusion of the general sense in Samoa 

 and Mangareva, and inclusive of the general sense in Tonga. In Mangareva 

 the word means not only the border but the cloth, and in the Marquesas 

 and Hawaii the border idea has vanished and the word is applied to the 

 cloth in general, while in Tahiti it designates any fragment of the cloth. 

 The shore sense takes a long leap from Efate to Tahiti and Hawaii. 



184. 



taii-ni, tao-ni, to cook, to bake in the oven; tao, leaves for cooking which 

 are put into the oven along with the food to be cooked. 



Samoa: tao, to bake; taofono, taona'i, to bake food the day before 

 it is used ; tan, the leaves used to cover an oven. Tonga : tao, 

 to cook food in an oven, to bake. Futuna: tab, to put in an 

 oven, to cook. Niue: tao, to bake. Uvea: tao, to cook, to 

 bake. Maori, Rapanui : tao, to bake or cook in a native oven, 

 properly to steam, to boil with steam. Tahiti: tao, the rocks 

 and leaves with which a pig is covered when cooking; baked, 

 boiled, cooked. Marquesas, Mangareva. Mangaia, Tongarewa : 

 tao, to bake in an oven. 



Malagasy: tatao, the rice, milk, and honey cooked at the annual 

 feast. 



Arabic: taha, tahw', to cook. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is taon. 



The word refers to the specific manner of cookery which involves the 

 pit oven. The suggestion in the Maori, therefore, does not mean a different 

 method ; it is but an attempt more precisely to describe the kitchen method, 

 a very tasty cookery, be it said. The suggestion of boiling is found only 

 in Tahiti, yet in his dictionary Bishop Jaussen does not record it under 

 the word bouillir; boiling was little known to the Polynesians before the 

 European introduction of pottery and other fire-resisting utensils. The 



