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Sesake, Ulawa, Waima, Kabadi, Galoma, Motu: manri, to live. 

 Saa: manri, meuri, id.; maurihe, life, safety. Santo: meuri, 

 to live. Bierian: maidi, id.; ni mauliana, life. Baki: meouli, 

 to live; meoulian, life. Malo: mauru, life, to live. Tangoan 

 Santo: nauri, to live. Mota: maur, to live. Malekula: 



maur, id.; mauran, life. Ponape: maur, to live. Marshalls: 

 mour, id. Vaturanga: maumauri, to live; maurisali, life. New 

 Britain: wamanrpa, to make to live. Tanna: murif, life. Laka- 

 toi language : makuri, life, alive. Keapara, Hula : maguli, life. 

 Arabic: 'a^'a, 'a'is n , ma'as", ma'is'', ma'is' at, to live. 

 Before discussing the stem in its greater extension I would comment on 

 my identification in Samoa and Viti. When we observe the general use 

 of mauri, to live, we should expect to find it certainly in Samoa and very 

 likely in Viti. In neither does it appear on the surface; Samoa has ola to 

 live, a word wholly of the Tongafiti migration, and Viti in mbula to live 

 employs a word of Melanesian stock which enters Samoan only in the inter- 

 jection apuld in congratulation upon safe delivery from a sneeze. 



The Viti maurimu is susceptible of no other explanation based on exist- 

 ing Viti material, and the explanation which I have proposed has no objec- 

 tion other than that mauri is not elsewhere used in Viti as signifying to live ; 

 therefore I have no hesitation in believing this to be a valid explanation. 

 It is interesting to observe that in wishing long life in ceremonial phrase 

 the Viti uses the Samoan word, the Samoan the Viti. Yet we have a par- 

 allel example in our own speech. Those of us who salute the sneezer are 

 more than likely to ejaculate Prosit! Dieu vous benisse! Gesundheit! rather 

 than English. Piety has always been prone to find somewhat esoteric in 

 the foreign: "Mesopotamia, blessed word!" 



In our Samoan authorities, and George Pratt was a marvel of recondite 

 information, no explanation is offered of the pleasant Manu'a phrase 'ua 

 maui mai. To give it sense by identifying it with mauli to live needs but 

 to establish the evanescence of the inner liquid. In my work on Samoan 

 phonetics ( 1 7 Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1 54) I have proved not 

 only that this is a Polynesian change, but that it holds in Samoa in partic- 

 ular. In this material it needs but the comparison of Futuna with Tonga. 

 The l-n mutation is peculiarly persistent in Nukuoro. 



Thus far we have found the word Nuclear Polynesian and signifying to 

 live. But it is found in Tongafiti possession and meaning native, indige- 

 nous rather than foreign. There is no gradation of signification. We are 

 thus led to discriminate between the two swarms. The Proto-Samoan 

 swarm left the common center with mauli meaning to live ; the Tongafiti 

 did not follow until it had popularized ola in the sense to live and had set 

 mauli into the background of a secondary sense. Meaning native, it is in 

 the following series : Maori, Tahiti, Mangareva, Paumotu : maori. Hawaii : 

 maoli. Marquesas: maoi. 



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 nono, ne, noi, to dwell or be beside some one, to abide. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna : nofo, to sit, to dwell, to live with. Niue, 

 Uvea: nofo, to sit, to dwell. Fotuna: no-nofo, to dwell, to 

 remain. Fakaafo, Aniwa, Vate: nofo, to sit. Maori, Tahiti: 



