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 leba, a species of earth, clay, mud, dirt. 



Maori :repo, dirt. Tahiti: repo, earth, dirt, mold, dust, filth. Manga- 



reva: repo, dirt, ordure. Paumotu: repo, dirt, mire. Hawaii: 



lepo, general name for dirt, dust, defilement of any sort, clay. 



soil, earth, dung. Marquesas: epo, dust, dirt, mire, mud, earth, 



Arabic: tabi'a, dirty; tabe', taba', dirt, mud; tub' an, clay. 



ioo. 

 Iffaru, libuis, rafalu, rifalu, a part, some. 



Niue: falu, some, a little. Fotuna: efaru, some, many. Tahiti: 



fanu, some. Nukuoro: hanu, a little. 

 Arabic: ba's'u, a part, some. 



IOI. 



mak, to fall, become mild, gentle, die away, as the wind; mao, maomao, 

 to be gentle, mild. 

 Samoa : mao, lull in the wind or the waves, the lull in a reef opening. 

 Tonga : maomao, dry, applied to the intervals between showers. 

 Niue : mao, fine after rain, to cease raining. Futuna, Maori, 

 Tahiti: mao, to cease raining. Hawaii: mao, to pass away, 

 as fog or cloud. Marquesas: mao, dry, as land once wet. 

 vSyriac: mak, to be cast down, prostrated, humble, mild. Arabic: 

 mahiha, to be mild. 

 The difficulty here is that mak, which has to do with the wind, does not 

 identify itself with the Polynesian mao; and that mao, which accords in 

 form with the Polynesian, lacks accord in sense. Because we must rest 

 upon the Polynesian base of form and signification we cannot accept this 

 identification with Efate and therefore must decline the Semitic which 

 our author identifies with his Efate material. 



I02. 



malei, to divorce. 



Samoa : alei, to divorce. 

 Aneityum : arei, to drive away. 

 Arabic : hala'a, to divorce. 

 If Melanesia or Polynesia afforded more identifications we could pass 

 more confidently on this. If malei be an older form of the word we then 

 have to do with a case of frontal abrasion, not wholly unknown yet rare, 

 as will be seen in the tables in the Melanesian chapter. 

 But the Semitic accords with neither. 



103. 

 maloi, buloi, a mask, cover of the face. 



Samoa: pulou, a head covering, bonnet, turban. Tonga: bulou, a 

 veil or cover to conceal the face ; b uloa, a mask. Futuna : pulou, 

 to veil, to cover the head. Uvea : fakapulou, to veil. Hawaii : 

 pulou, to cover the head, to blindfold. Tahiti: purou, to cover 

 the head. Mangareva : puroku, to cover the head, as with a hat. 

 Rapanui: pud, to put on a hat. Nuguria: buloo, a hat. 



