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118. 



suli na, shoot (as of a banana), offspring (of man); sulia, to have shoots. 



Samoa: suli, shoot of a banana, son of a chief. Tonga: huli, a 

 plant, a sapling, a shoot (as huli fuji, the shoot of the banana). 

 Niue : huli, young seed plants of the taro. Hawaii : huli, the 

 name of taro tops for planting. Maori : huri, seed. Rapanui: 

 hurt, a stalk. Mangareva: huri, banana shoot. 



Viti: suli, a banana sucker. 



Mota Maligo: suliu, a sucker from roots, a shoot from tubers. 

 Mota Veverau: sului, id., and children, offspring. 



Hebrew: neser, a sprout, shoot, offspring. 



119. 



tafa, a hill, lit. that which goes up or is high; high, above. 



Samoa : tafa, the side of a hill. Rapanui : taha, to lean, to incline ; 



tahataha, boundary, frontier; hakataha, to turn aside, to decline, 



to be on the side. 

 Tigre: dayaba, to go up. Ethiopic: diba, above. 



A squinting etymology. 



120. 

 tera, to be quick, swift. 



Samoa : telea'i, to run quickly ; teletele, to be quick, step out ; televave, 

 tclelise, to be very quick. Futuna : telekaki, to run swiftly, 

 to go with speed ; televave, one who goes swiftly. Mangareva : 

 tere, to go well, to sail well. Maori: tere, to move swiftly, to 

 be quick. Sikayana: tere, to run. Fotuna: no-tere, id. 



Rapanui: tere, id.; hakatere, to urge to haste. 

 Arabic : darra, to run vehemently or swiftly, to turn a spindle very 

 swiftly. 



EFATE-MELANESIAN-VITI-POIATNESIAN. 



121. 



barab, baraf, barau, baram, long, high (as a hill). 

 Tonga: baleva, tall, long, overgrown. 

 Viti: mbalavu, long, generally of space. 

 Malo: barauo, long, wide. Makelula Uripiv: periv, id. 



Our author's association of this with laba (307) expresses his curiosity 

 rather than his acumen. The identification as here set down seems excel- 

 lent; it certainly bears very prettily upon the Viti track and its extension 

 to Nuclear Polynesia in Tonga rather than in Samoa. 



122. 



bi, fi, reflexive preformative. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea : fe, reciprocal prefix. Cf . Maori 



whe in wheanganga. 

 Viti : vet, reflexive prefix. Rotuma : hoi. 



