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126. 

 tokalau, an easterly wind. 



Samoa : to'elau, the northeast wind. Futuna, Niue, Tonga : tokelau, 

 the north. Nuguria: tokcrau, southeast, the trade wind. 



Maori: tokcrau, eastern. Mangaia: tokerau, the northwest 



wind. Bukabuka: apatokerau, north. Paumotu: tokerau, 

 the north; patokerau, the northeast. Rapanui: tokerau, air, 

 wind, fresh breeze, a squall, the noise of the wind, a season, 

 south ; tokerau alio, west. Tahiti : tocrau, the west or north- 

 west. Tonga: apatoerau, the south. Mangareva: tokorau, 

 the north. Moriori: tokorau, a wind name of uncertain appli- 

 cation. Marquesas : tokoau, the north or northeast. Hawaii: 

 koolau, the east. Fakaafo: Tui-Tokclau, a divinity. 



Viti : tokalau, the east wind ; tokalaulutu, north or northeast ; toka- 

 lauvualiku, north or northwest. 



Aneityum: na-tokarau, the northwest wind. Moanus: tolau, the 

 north wind. Santo: tokalau, northeast wind. 



Our author proposes the derivation tok (toko) to remain, alau on the sea. 

 These respective elements have the assigned meanings in his Efate diction- 

 ary. From the Kfate point of view it is a definition even if it does not 

 particularly define. So far as I know it is the only definition, for the word 

 is quite incomprehensible in its Polynesian elements. On his element tok 

 consult 357, where it will be seen that in Polynesian it may very doubtfully 

 be recognized in Samoan and in a sense that would in no way fit this wind 

 or compass rhumb, and that in Viti it is primarily a posture in sitting. 

 His element a-lau, lau the sea, he identifies in Malo a lau, Epi lau and 

 Malay laut the sea. To which I may add that in Viti lau is the designation 

 of the windward islands opposed to ra (ra down) the leeward islands, on 

 either side of the central part of the archipelago which bears in that sense 

 the name Lomaiviti. The word lau in the sea sense does not occur in 

 Polynesia, nor do I recall it elsewhere in Melanesia. 



If the derivation of the word lies in mystery, so is its use lacking what 

 we should call precision. 



But first the mutations, the second vowel being critical. 



Forms in a: Viti, Efate, Aneityum, Santo — all Melanesian. 



Forms in e: Samoa, Futuna, Niue, Tonga, Maori, Mangaia, Bukabuka, 



Paumotu, Tahiti, Fakaafo, Nuguria, Rapanui. 

 Forms in o: Mangareva, Marquesas, Moriori, Hawaii. 

 (Moanus irregular.) 



Now we shall examine the sense, whether of wind or of direction in 

 general. 



North quadrant (from northeast to northwest by the north) : Viti, 

 Samoa, Futuna, Niue, Tonga, Mangaia, Bukabuka, Paumotu, 

 Tahiti, Mangareva, Marquesas. 

 East quadrant : Maori, Efate, Hawaii. 



South quadrant : Tonga, for comparison with Bukabuka and Paumotu 

 shows that the prefix, of wholly uncertain signification, does not 

 avail to establish the direction within 180 ; and Rapanui. 



