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(Samoa maud), maugataa hard to get, ma'ugofie easy to get. It seems to 

 me that he has inserted ' into tu'i in order to differentiate that word to the 

 eye from five other meanings of tut. Those of us who had the pleasure of 

 knowing Tonga under that polemical missionary-statesman will have no 

 difficulty in comprehending why he should see fit to accentuate the ruling 

 power. Other than this slight visible but inaudible deviation the word is 

 identical throughout Nuclear Polynesia and in Ef ate, to which it is limited . 

 It can have no possible connection with Semitic words for stake. 



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tuku, to go down, to sink down, to lower. 



Among the many uses of the apparently cognate Polynesian tuku I select 

 only such as concord with the Efate tuku, for a close study of the Samoan 

 tu'u (yielding no selection for this purpose) leads to the feeling that it is 

 the remnant of several dissimilar stems. 



Maori: tuku, to subside, to settle down. Tahiti: tuutuu, to slacken 

 or ease a rope. Hawaii : kuu, to let down, to slacken. Tonga : 

 tuku, to slacken, to let go as a rope; tukutuku, to sink in the 

 sea. Futuna: tuku, to put down. Niue: tuku, to bury. 

 Rarotonga : tuku, to let down, to let out, to drop down. Manga- 

 reva : tuku, to throw the fishing net or fillet. Paumotu : tuku, 

 to lay down. Sikayana: tuku, to put down. Nukuoro : tuku, 

 to permit, to allow. Manahiki, Fakaafo: tuku, to place. 

 Nuguria: tuku, to set. Rapanui: tuku, to give, to accord. 



Viti : tukutha, to let go, to slacken a rope ; vakatukutha, to let down 

 in a basket. 



Hebrew: s'uah, to sink down. Arabic: sah'a, sah'a, tah'a, t'ah'a, id. 



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 bano, to go, to go off or away. 



Samoa : jano, passing along. Tonga : jano, to go, used in reference 

 to small fish going in shoals. Futuna: jano, to go, to depart. 

 Niue : jano, to go, to walk ; fcnonga, a journey. Tahiti : jano, 

 to set sail, to depart. Paumotu : jano, to set sail. Aniwa, 

 Sikayana, Vate: jano, to go. Nukuoro: liano atu, to go, to 

 depart; hano saine, to go around. Nuguria: uhano, to go. 

 Maori : whano, to go on. Tongarewa : hana, to go. Mangareva : 

 ano, to appear. Uvea: jangona (metath. janonga) road, path, 

 to go a journey. Fotuna: no-jano, to walk, to go. 

 Baki, Epi: mbano, to go. Meli, Fagani: jano, id. Maewo, Malo, 

 Baki, Mota Veverau, Motlav, Vuras, Merlav, Gog, Lakon, Santo, 

 Vaturanga, Bugotu: vano, id. Volow: vono, id. Malekula, 

 Marina, Omba, Arag, Mota Veverau, Volow, Leon, Sasar, Mosin, 

 Alo Teqel, Norbarbar, Maewo: van, id. King: va?iwin, to 

 come. Lo: ven, to go. Bierian Epi: mbene, id. Tanna: 

 (t)uven, id. Eromanga: ve, id. Mota Maligo, Ambrym, 



