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EFATE-VITI-P0LYNESIAN-MAI,AY. 



127. 



alialia, insane; lala, an idiot, a fool, one demented. 



Samoa: lielievale, to boast without reason. Niue: lialia pou, giddy. 



Uvea: fakalialia, deformed. 

 Viti : lialia, foolish, absurd, crazy, out of one's mind, an idiot. 

 Malagasy: adala, foolish, infatuated, a lunatic, a fool. 



The identification is quite satisfactory so far as it has to do with lialia 

 forms. I can not see that Efate lala belongs here, and certainly the mere 

 / is not sufficient to establish a Malagasy relationship. 



128. 

 bwelu ki, bwelu, beluuelii, to fold, to double. 



Samoa: mapelu, to bend, to stoop, to bow down, persons stooping 

 with age, housebeams sagging under weight. Tonga: pelu, 

 bebelu, to fold, to crease. Futuna : pelu, peluki, to fold. Uvea : 

 pelu, id., mapelu, to bend, to bow. Hawaii: pelu, to double 

 over, to bend, to fold. Rapanui: peu, axe, adze. 

 Viti : mbeluka, kambclu, to bend, to curve. 

 Malay: valuna, folded, doubled. 

 The Proto-Samoan radical is peluk. 



The Samoan mapelu is pelu with the condition prefix; pelu is found in 

 use in the sense of bent, crooked. Pratt indicates pelu, a sword, as intro- 

 duced ; I incline to the opinion that it is not the word but the specific appli- 

 cation which has been introduced, for my Samoan instructors told me that 

 the first swords ever seen were curved (pelu) on the edge and hence the 

 name. But as the first swords seen were undoubtedly cutlasses and not 

 scimitars an armorer will have to pass on the question of fact. Pelu'i, 

 also introduced, is wholly introduced, word as well as meaning, for it is 

 clearly a transliteration of the English word billhook. Samoa and Viti 

 lack the precise signification of pelu as it elsewhere occurs, yet not on that 

 account is the identification at all doubtful. 



The Malay identification shows that the word had already been abraded 

 before the Indonesians took it from the Polynesian remnant, for only in 

 this state could the Malay treat it in accordance with his own methods of 

 word formation and add the -na. 



129. 

 bungafunga, fungafunga, bungo ni, to be awake, to awaken. 



Samoa, Tonga, Uvea, Futuna: fafangu, to rouse from sleep, to 



awaken. Fotuna: no-fagona, to awaken, to be awake. 

 Viti: vangona, to rouse, to awaken. 

 Mota: vangvangov, vavangov, to waken. 

 Malagasy: fuha, awake; mifuha, to awaken. 

 In view of the fact that nowhere in the Pacific areas do we find a ng-h 

 mutation, and in the utter absence of possibly intermediate Indonesian 

 forms, we are not warranted in accepting the proposed Malagasy identi- 

 fication. 



