218 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



130. 



fai, the skate. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Tahiti: fai, the sting ray (genera: Disco- 

 batis, Dasyatis, Taniura, Himantura, Hypolophus, sp. pp. ; the 

 type in Samoa is Himantura fai). Marquesas: hai, fai, the 

 stingray. Maori: what, id. Nukuoro: haimanu, uruhai- 

 pokorua, id. 



Viti : vai, the sting ray. 



Malay: pari, the sting ray. Tagalog: pagi, id. 



We can not accept the Indonesian identification on account of the intru- 

 sive consonants. 



The Nukuoro haimanu is especially interesting in connection with the 

 fact that in Polynesia passim manu means bird and beast but not fish, for 

 haimanu must here of marine necessity mean hai-ftsh. Dr. Codrington has 

 pointed out (Melanesian Languages, 56, 69) that Lakon mah means both 

 bird and fish and that in Maewo and Vanua Lava as masi, mes, the same 

 word is in use for fish but not for bird. Of course it is not to be understood 

 that he implies that masi is a manu variant. I note, however, Aneityum 

 numu, Tanna namu, Eromanga nomu, the same word and all meaning fish, 

 which it would be no straining of metathesis to associate with manu. Nuku- 

 oro has the manu-fish again in manumangamanga, starfish. 



131- 

 fakau, f ikau, a message, messenger, ambassador, agent sent to do something 

 for a chief or community ; kau, to carry. 

 Samoa : 'au, to send ; fe'au, a message, to send for. Tonga : fekau, 

 a command, an order. Niue: fekau, a message. Uvea: 

 fekau, a servant, a messenger, to send. Fotuna : kau, to send. 

 Viti : kauta, to carry. 



Java: panggawa, a noble, title of one of the five chief councillors of 

 state ; gawa, to bear, to carry, to convey, to bring. 



While Java gawa does not quite accord with the Polynesian it agrees 

 with Viti and Efate. But panggawa seems not to be fekau, for the term is 

 menial in the Pacific and honorific in Java; furthermore in 122 we find no 

 evidence that fe- appears at all in Indonesia. 



132. 



seru, a comb. 



Samoa, Futuna, Nukuoro: selu, a comb. Tonga, Uvea: helu, id. 

 Nukuoro: seru, id. Niue: hetu (anomalous), id. Fotuna: 

 seru, id.; ko-seserua, to comb. 



Viti: seru, a comb. 



Malay: sisir, garu, a comb. 



NoTE — Marquesas: heu, to scratch the ground with the hands. 

 Mangareva : heru, to reject with hands and feet ; pahere, pahore, 

 a comb. Paumotu: heru, to brush with the hands. Rapanui: 

 heruheru, a rake. Tahiti: heru, to scratch as a hen; pahere, 

 pahoro, a comb. Hawaii : helu, to scratch the earth as hens. 

 Aneityum : ero, to scratch as a fowl. 



