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no change more serious than terminal vowel abrasion, except for a slight 

 vowel change in Mosin. Aneityum has aijangjing to pour and ajaingjanse 

 to pour in ; this speech, so remote from either of the Proto-Samoan migra- 

 tion streams that it falls almost into the lowest class of quality of its Poly- 

 nesian content, has been too little studied to warrant our acceptance of 

 this identification. But we can sense a Polynesian ghost in its j-ng-s, all 

 the more since the l-j mutation plainly appears in lima (312) five Aneityum 

 ni-jman. 



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liu, liliu, lilia, ler, bilui, bilu, to turn back, return, go or come back. 



Samoa: liu, liliu, to turn, to go backward and forward. Tonga: 

 liu, liliu, to return. Futuna: liliu, to return, to go or come 

 back. Niue: liu, liliu, to turn, change, return. Uvea: liliu, 

 to turn, to return. Maori: ririu, to pass by. Tahiti: riuriu r 

 to go around in a circle. Mangareva : akariu, to come and go- 



Viti: Ha, to transform, to metamorphose. 



Nggela : liliu, to change, to turn away. 



The identification of liu is complete through all these notes. With the 

 dialectic occurrence of Efate lilia there need be no hesitation about admit- 

 ting Viti lia. 



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 manuka, a wound. 



Samoa: manu'a, a wound. Tonga: manuka, manukaia, to kill, 

 murder, applied to chiefs. Fotuna : manuka, a sore, an ulcer. 

 Nuguria: manua, to wound. 

 Mota Maligo: maniga, wound. Mota Veverau: manuga, id. 



Bierian: manika, a sore, an ulcer. Baki: menuko, id. Laur: 

 manug, a sore, an ulcer, an abscess. Baravon, Pala : manua, 

 wound. Malekula: menu, a sore, an ulcer. 

 Arabic : naka', to wound. Hebrew : nakah, id. Ethiopic : nakaya, id. 



It is interesting to note that while on the one hand this word is confined 

 to Nuclear Polynesia it occurs on the other not only in the New Hebrides 

 but even so far back along the Samoa track as the east Indonesian gate. 

 Tonga makes far less use of the courtesy speech, the Polynesian Basakrama, 

 than does Samoa. In Samoa manu'a is an open word, the wound of a chief 

 is mdsoe. It would appear that Tonga manuka was an importation from 

 Samoa and was set aside for courtesy use as being a foreign novelty. Any 

 note is valuable which tends toward the elucidation of the differentiation 

 of Proto-Samoan and Tongafiti in Tonga. 



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nakbe, a hollowed log used as a drum. 



Samoa, Tonga, Uvea, Niue: nafa, a drum. 



Malekula Uripiv: nambwi, a drum. 



Hebrew: nekeb, a hollowed thing used as a musical instrument. 



