260 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



noho, to sit, to dwell, to live with. Hawaii, Marquesas, 

 Paumotu : noho, to sit, to dwell. Mangareva : noho, to remain, 

 to dwell. Sikayana, Tongarewa : noho, to sit, to stay. Mana- 

 hiki, Nukuoro :noho, to sit. Bukabuka : noo, to be. Raro tonga : 

 noo, to sit, to dwell. Moiki: noho, id. Rapanui: noho, to 

 sit, to dwell, a bench. Nuguria: nofo, to sit: unoho, to dwell; 

 nahoa, bench. 



Viti: no, to lie (of things) ; nbnb, a place to lie on. Rotuma: noh, 

 to sit, noho, a place. 



Motu: noho, to dwell, to stay. Vaturanga: noho (are mate noho, 

 they are dead, have died: "this is, no doubt, the Maori noho to 

 sit" — Codrington). Nggao: nokro, to sit. Pala: noh, to lie. 



Hebrew: navah, naah, to sit down, to rest, to dwell. 



The Polynesian stem is unalterably a dissyllable, the only change which 

 it exhibits being the mutation /-/i-extinction, the last being found in Raro- 

 tonga and Bukabuka. In Rotuma noh (i.e., noho under terminal abrasion) 

 we find a transition form to no in Viti and Efate, thence by reduplication 

 nono. The principal objection to this chain of forms lies in the fact that 

 while Viti and Efate agree upon wo-forms Motu and Vaturanga, at a greater 

 backward distance from Polynesia, have noho. In Nggao f-kr gives us an 

 anomalous mutation, of which this is the sole instance, for in all our colla- 

 tion of /-variants we find nothing approximating this wholly irregular kr. 

 The passage from ^-sense to 6e-sense seems far greater to us than to 

 the islanders. They have not arrived at the need of a word to express 

 being in the abstract. The occurrence of this signification in Vaturanga 

 far to the west balances the extremeness of the easting of Bukabuka, in 

 which it is again found. 



202. 

 rakum, rakoma, a crab. 



Samoa : 'ama'ama, a crab (Grapsidae) found in the rocks. Tonga : 

 kamakama, a rock crab. Niue : kamakama, a crab. Futuna : 

 kamakama, a little black crab that lives in chinks of the rocks. 

 Viti : nggumunggumu, a kind of crab. 

 Epi : lakum, a crab. 

 Arabic : h'umh'um', a crab. 



We lack data on which to establish through transition forms the identity 

 which seems probable between the kama of Nuclear Polynesia and the Efate 

 and Epi ra-kum. 



203. 



sar i, sari, to saw ; seri, to cut with a sawing motion ; sara, a saw. 



Samoa : sala, to lop, to cut off ; sele, a bamboo knife, to cut or clip 

 (as the hair) ; selei, to cut, to shear, to slash. Futuna, Uvea : 

 sele, a knife, to cut off, to cut. Nukuoro : selesele, to carve, to 

 engrave. Fotuna: no-sere, to cut; seria, a saw. Tonga: 

 hele, a knife, to cut, to lacerate; hehele, to cut. Niue: hele, 

 hehele, to cut up, to reap, to castrate. Hawaii: mahele, to 

 divide, to cut in pieces. Maori : here, a spear for killing birds. 

 Paumotu : kohere, to cleave, to split. 



