DATA AND NOTES. 221 



138. 

 lako, loko, laku, loku, roko, nrok, to stoop, to be curved. 



Samoa: lolo'u, to bend down or around. Tonga: loku, to draw 

 together, to gather in sewing, to pucker in a heap. Futuna, 

 Niue: loloku, to bend, to curve. Hawaii: lou, to bend around; 

 loulou, to bend down. Maori: roku, to be weighed down, to 

 decline. 



Viti: roko, a bowing posture, bent like a bow; rokota, vakarota, to 

 bend a bow ; rokova, to pay respect to ; vakaroko, to bow down 

 with weakness, to go stooping. 



Arabic: raka'a, roko', ruku', to stoop, to be curved or bent, to bow 

 or be bent down. 



139- 

 (a) nab wo, nabwoa, tamo, to smell (intransitive). Cf. 221. 



Samoa: ndmu, odor, to have a bad smell. Tonga: namu, to 

 smell; namuaa, namuku, bad in smell. Futuna: namuku, to 

 smell bad. Niue: namu, a smell; namud, bad smelling. Uvea: 

 namu, nanamu, odor; namuku, a stench. Tahiti : naminami, 

 stinking; namurea, savor. Nukuoro: namu, namo, a scent, 

 a smell. Fotuna: ehnamu, to stink. 

 (6) bwoa, bwon, odor, to emit odor. 



Samoa: poapod, fishy smelling. Tonga: boa, the smell of fish; 

 tauboa, to scent the water with fish to catch others. Futuna : 

 poa, popoa, to smell fishy. Maori: poa, to allure by bait, to 

 chum. Tahiti: parupoa, to bait for fish. Hawaii : po, puia, 

 to emit odor. Mangareva: poa, bait, oil cast on the water 

 to attract fish ; akapoa, to communicate a smell of flesh to the 

 water to attract fish. 



Viti: mboi, to smell, to yield a perfume. 



Arabic : fdha, to emit odor. 



In comparing bwoa and nabwoawe suspect the na to be verb-formative in 

 much the same use as the no thus employed in neighboring, but far more 

 distinctly Polynesian, Fotuna. Thus there can be no association of nabwoa 

 with Polynesian namu. As relates to tamo, clearly not of the same stem 

 as nabwoa, Nukuoro with two forms might seem to provide the transition, 

 but this affects only the unaccented final vowel, the least important detail. 

 This leaves us the far more difficult problem of establishing a t-n mutation. 

 This does not exactly appear in the Efate material, the nearest approach 

 being t-ng found in mauta-maunga (61) as this instance is solitary. So, in 

 the wider Melanesian field we find but a solitary instance, namu (328) 

 mosquito Alo Teqel torn. The identification is not established. 



The formal identification of bwoa with the poa of the eastern islands is 

 satisfactory. We are to note that in Polynesia the sense is highly special- 

 ized except in Hawaii, which, with Viti, is identical with Efate. 



140. 

 nasu na, juice, that which flows out or exudes. 



Samoa: su, ngasu, wet; sua, juice. Futuna: su, watery; sua, juice. 

 Nukuoro: suisui, wet. Tonga: huhu, wet; hua, huhua, juice; 



