268 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



In connection with the words here assembled it is quite impossible to 

 dissociate the two stems ulu and fulu. It is probable that in my theory 

 of word formation by consonantal coefficients the explanation will be found. 



Before proceeding to our task of tracing out the intricacies here presented 

 I wish to call attention to the existence in Polynesia of yet another word 

 for hair, lauulu. Where a distinction is made fulu is the hair of the body, 

 lauulu that of the head inclusive of the beard, yet frequently accompanied 

 by a specific term for the beard. 



Tregear interprets this as lau leaf and ulu head ; such also is the interpre- 

 tation given by the islanders, the value of their etymologies having been 

 mentioned in note 169. This is very simple, very obvious. Yet the form 

 of lauulu used in Tahiti is rouru, and in that language ro does not mean 

 leaf at all ; nor yet does it in the Viti dialect which employs ro ni vulu for 

 ndrau ni ulu in the same sense. Furthermore, the vulu in the Viti Levu 

 form is not ulu head but vulu hair, and ndrau itself means hair as well as 

 leaf. Thus we have found that hair as ' ' the leaves of the head " is not such 

 a simple explanation as it appears. 



Having already established the nature and employment of determinant 

 compounds, I recognize in this composite lauulu two words of one identical 

 sense among others, lau hair and ulu hair; their employment together 

 determines for the composite the sense of hair beyond any doubt. Cod- 

 rington (Melanesian Languages, 73) seems to have felt some suspicion 

 about the leaves of the head explanation, but, the determinant compound 

 not having come within his knowledge, he was unable to carry on his note 

 to a satisfactory issue. 



We shall now examine the interlacing of these two stems in the area of 

 their greatest intricacy, Melanesia ; and shall rearrange the material in the 

 order of a developmental series. It should be noted that such termina- 

 tions as gi, ge, and i are merely local means to indicate a noun as absolute. 



fulu series. ulu series. 



vulu: Gog, Malo, Omba, Mosin, ulu: Deni, Malo, Sesake, Mota, 



Vuras, Eromanga. Maewo. 



wulu: Norbarbar. uli: Merlav. 



wolu: Ambrym. ilu: Epi, Arag. 



holu: Buka. Hi: Ambrym, Volow, Motlav. 



weu: Duke of York, ul: Lo. 



houi: Motu. lu: Nifilole. 



vul: Marina, Lakon. kalu: New Georgia. 



vili: Makura, Bierian, Pak, Sasar, 



Alo Teqel. 

 viji: Baki. 



The two series inosculate in vulu-ulu, vili-ili, thus showing that the 

 intimacy of their interrelation is not fortuitous. The bare simplicity of 

 Nifilole lu is repeated in the Efate lulu. The Eromanga novlimpu becomes 

 clearer by indicating the several members of the composite, no-vli-mpu. 

 Baki viji, so close to its neighbor Bierian vili, clearly establishes an /-/ 

 mutation; we find confirmation in sola (339) path Bugotu hatautu, and 

 (l-nd) langi (308) sky Buka indengid. Finding, then, in Melanesia this form 



