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in t we may incline toward a warmer reception of Indonesian /-forms where 

 the vowel is truer to stem than in Baki. Such are Tidore, Galela : hutu; 

 Menado: uta; Sanguir: utan; Gah: uka; Matabello: ud; Batumerah: hud; 

 Wahai : hue. Other Indonesian forms in which a resemblance appears are 

 these : Mayapo : folo; Massaratty : olofolo; Cajeli : buloni; Baju : buli tokolo; 

 Malagasy: volo; Bouton: bulwa; Ahtiago: ulujuim; Tobo: ulvu; Salayer: 

 uhu; Teluti: keulo; Morella: keiule; Liang: kaiola; Caimarian: keori. 



Rotuma leav and Tobo ulvu and Ahtiago ulujuim show interesting vari- 

 eties of metathesis. Assigning position, we mark vulu 1234; then Rotuma 

 represents 3412, Tobo 4312, and Ahtiago probably 4321, or less likely 2341. 



EFATE-MELANESIAN-VITI-POLYNESIAN-MALAY. 



213. 

 banga, bangan i, fanga, to feed, to charge, to fill. 



Samoa, Tonga, Uvea: fafanga, to feed. Tonga: fafangai, id. 

 Futuna, Niue, Paumotu : fangai, id. Tahiti: faaai, id. Rapa- 

 nui: hangai, id. Hawaii: hanai, id. Maori: whangai, to feed, 

 to nurture. Mangareva, Rarotonga: angai, to feed, to nourish. 

 Marquesas: hakai, to feed. 

 Viti: vdkania, to feed. 



Mota: vangan, to feed. Nggela, Bugotu: vanga, food. King: 



ivangon, to eat. Lambell: hangdn, id. Lamassa: angdn, id. 



Malagasy: mamahana, to feed, to load a gun; ma causative and 



fahana. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is probably fangan. Yet the final n nowhere 



appears in Polynesia, while it is plainly to be seen in Efate, Mota and our 



three New Ireland languages. 



Dr. Macdonald's identification with Viti vdkania at first seemed to me 

 wholly superficial. On closer examination it is found to be worse; it 

 is an attempt to wrest the record. The only place in which the word 

 appears in the Viti dictionary is not in its alphabetic place, but as a note 

 under the word kana to eat, of which it is clearly stated to be a causative. 

 That our author had this entry before his eyes is shown by the fact that he 

 cites the word as vdkani-a, just as Hazlewood has printed it. He forgets 

 that he identified it correctly in 46. Since va is the causative prefix and 

 kana means to eat there can be not the remotest relation with the fangan 

 stem. The discussion of these two Viti stems will be found under 214 

 and 46 respectively. 



In Polynesia generally the word is transitive, yet there are uses in which 

 evidence appears of the intransitive as well. Regarding the primary sense 

 of the word as transitive, we find in its use as signifying the charging of a 

 gun or the filling of a pipe in Efate no great deviation from an elemental 

 signification of putting something into the mouth. 



214. 

 baka, faka, causative prefix. 



Tonga, Paumotu, Niue, Futuna, Uvea, Fakaafo, Fotuna, Sikayana, 

 Aniwa: faka. Marquesas, Paumotu, Nukuoro, Rapanui, 



Tongarewa: haka. Maori: whaka. Samoa: fa' a. Tahiti, 



