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H3- 

 suki, to stick, to stab. 



Samoa: su'i, to sew, to stitch. Nukuoro: suki, to pierce, to stab. 

 Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea : huki, to pierce, to prick, to punc- 

 ture, to lance. Maori: huki, pierced. Marquesas: huki, a 

 small stick used to strengthen thatch. Rapanui: huki, to 

 transpierce. Mangareva: huki, to pierce (said of lightning); 

 ukiuki, piercing, lancing. Paumotu: hukihuki, to bore, to 

 perforate. Tahiti : hut, to pierce, to prick, to lance. Hawaii : 

 huiuna, a seam, a uniting by sewing together. 



Viti : thuki, a digging stick. 



Lambell, King, Lamassa : suki, to sew. Lambell, Lamassa : suki, 

 to prick. Moanus : susui, to sew. 



Arabic : s'akka, to transfix with a spear. 



The root suk retains its k except in Tahiti and Hawaii, where this loss 

 is normal, and in Moanus. Our data instance two stems in Moanus involv- 

 ing k; in this instance fe-medial vanishes; in 305, there initial, it remains; 

 of course these two instances are not sufficient to establish the usage. 



144. 

 takutaku, to speak. 



Samoa : ta'u, to tell, to mention, to announce, to certify, to acknowl- 

 edge. Tonga : taku, to call by, to designate ; takua, to mention, 

 to call by name. Rapanui: taku, to predict. Maori : takutaku, to 

 threaten, to recite imprecations. Fotuna : no-tukua, to confess. 

 Viti : tukuna, to report, to tell. 

 Arabic : nataka, to speak. 



The Fotuna word is no more divergently specialized away from the plain 

 sense of Efate and Viti than is the Tonga or the Maori; it is particularly 

 interesting because it confirms the Viti vowel plan. 



In the proposed Semitic identification a syllable is supposed to have been 

 worn away by frontal abrasion in passing from a common parent to the 

 Pacific, or the Arabic has picked up a syllable. Without confirmatory 

 evidence of intermediate forms this assumption is too violent. 



H5- 

 tui, a chief. 



Samoa : tui, a chief, king. Tonga : tu'i, a king, a governor. Futuna : 

 tui, god, supreme ruler, king (of god only). Niue: tui, a high 

 chief. Uvea: tui, king. 

 Viti : tui, king or principal chief. 



Arabic: waddu, watadu, watada, to fix, stake, make firm. Hebrew: 

 yated, a pin, a nail, a prince. 



No explanation is offered of the anomalous ' in Tonga tu'i. The char- 

 acter is seldom used in Tongan and is not noted at all in Shirley Baker's 

 grammar of the language. How inconsistent with himself he is in regard 

 of this character in the dictionary is exhibited in this suite : ma'u to get 



