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136. 



(a) ngor i, kor i, to enclose or surround with a fence (nakoro). 



Samoa: 'olo, a fort, stronghold. Tonga: kolo, a fort, a town, cloth 

 hung around a house in which a corpse lies. Futuna, Niue, 

 Uvea: kolo, a fort, tower, citadel, castle. 



Viti : koro, a town, village, settlement. 



Arabic: higr', hogf, a fence. Ethiopic: hagar, a town, village. 

 (6) koro, a halo around the moon. 



Maori: aokoro, pukoro, a halo around the moon. 



Viti : virikoro, a circle around the moon. 



Arabic: hagar a, to have a halo. 



There is complete accord from Efate through Viti to Polynesia in the 

 main use of this stem and in the particular use which is set to itself apart. 

 In Efate koro answers equally well for fence and for halo. In the marked 

 advance which characterizes social life in Viti and among the Maori the 

 need has been felt of qualifying koro in some distinctive manner when its 

 reference is celestial. In Viti virimbai has the meaning of putting up a 

 fence (mbai fence) ; viri does not appear independently in this use, but it 

 is undoubtedly homogenetic with Samoan vili, which has a basic meaning 

 of going around ; virikoro then signifies the ring-fence-that-goes-about, sc. 

 the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence. 



The Semitic here is triliteral. While the sense concord is notable, the 

 form resemblance involves only the second and third Semitic consonants 

 and we are left without explanation of the first, no shadow of which appears 

 in our Pacific areas. 



137. 

 kabu, koau, the native pudding, tied up in a bundle and cooked in the oven ; 

 kofu sa, to wrap up or enclose (as a pudding in leaves to be put 

 in the oven) . The pudding koau is laid on a mass of leaves 

 very wide and long which are rolled up or over it all around 

 completely enclosing it and then tied up. 

 Samoa : 'ofu, food tied up in a leaf ready to cook. Tonga : kofu, 

 to wrap up. Niue: kohukohu, to enclose, wrap up as in a 

 taro leaf. Maori : kohu, to cook in an oven any article con- 

 tained in a hollow vessel. Tahiti: oh u, food tied up and 

 cooked in a bundle. Uvea : kofu, clothing. Rapanui: kahu, 

 clothing, cloth. 

 Viti : kovu, banana leaf in which puddings are done up. 

 Arabic: kabba, to make food into balls for cooking; kobbat, kabab', 

 food so cooked; kabkaba, to be wrapped up, enveloped. 



Our author cites koau as a dialectic form of his theme kabu, which 

 hardly seems likely. The identification eastward with kovu and kofu is 

 satisfactory. The clothing signification in Viti and Polynesia is derivative, 

 and since that secondary sense does not appear in Efate it has not seemed 

 necessary to give it extended consideration. 



The Arabic certainly shows resemblance in form and, so far as is admis- 

 sible in a different practice of kitchen mechanics, in sense also. 



