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158. 

 ruma, the breast, bosom. 



Maori : uma, the breast, bosom. Samoa : uma, awide chest. Tonga, 

 Futuna, Uvea, Niue: uma, the shoulder. Nuguria: uma, 



breast of a man. Marquesas: uma, the breast. Hawaii: 

 umauma, id. Tahiti: ouma, id. Rapanui: huma, breast, 

 chest. 



Sesake: ruma, the breast. Dobu: rumaruma, id. Buka: nunume, 

 id. Motu: geme, id. Galoma: komakoma, id. 



Arabic: ha'zum', the breast, the bosom. 



Frontal abrasion is so well established that we need have no hesitation 

 in accepting the identification of Melanesian ruma and Polynesian uma. 

 The r-n mutation which will admit Buka nunume is the most frequent l-r 

 change in Polynesia, and in the Solomon Islands finds support in lima (313) 

 hand Saa ninime. Motu geme is much more remote and uncertain, and does 

 not well accord with the high quality of the identifications in that Torres 

 Straits migration station ; the r-g mutation finds a measure of support in 

 the l-k mutation lima (313) hand Vaturanga kima Nggao kame, where, 

 however, Motu has the abraded ami. Galoma with its k form adds con- 

 firmation. 



159- 

 ruru, to tremble, an earthquake. 



Samoa : lulu, lue, to shake. Tonga : luelue, to roll ; lulu, to shake. 

 Futuna: lulii, to tremble, to shake, to agitate. Niue: luelue, 

 to shake; lulu, to shake, to be shaken. Nuguria: ruhe, motion 

 of the hands in dancing; luhe henua, an earthquake. Uvea, 

 Hawaii : lu, lulu, lululu, to shake, to tremble, to flap. Fotuna : 

 no-ruruia, to shake. Maori: ru, ruru, to shake, an earth- 

 quake. Tahiti, Rarotonga, Rapanui, Paumotu : ruru, to shake, 

 to tremble. Mangareva: ru, to tremble; ruru, to shake. 



Marquesas : uu, to shake the head in negation ; uuuu, to shake 

 up. Uvea: wet, to shake; ueue, to move. Rapanui: ueue, 

 to shake. 



Nguna: ruru, a trembling. Mota: rir, to quake, an earthquake. 



Syriac: r l el, to tremble. 



Here we seem to have a common stem in two states. 



The simpler is lu. This is found in its bare state in Uvea, Hawaii, Maori 

 and Mangareva. With a persistent reduplication, lulu, it is found in all 

 the above and in Samoa, Futuna, Fotuna, Tonga, Niue, Tahiti, Rarotonga, 

 Paumotu, Rapanui and the Marquesas, Efate, Ngunaand Mota. In Hawaii 

 it appears in triplication, and in the Marquesas even in quadruplication. 



The modified stem is lue. This is nowhere found to the exclusion of 

 lulu, but with it is found in Samoa, Tonga, Niue and Uvea ; that is, it is 

 a Nuclear Polynesian type. 



While there can be no difficulty in form or sense involved in the Mota 

 identification we notice the confirmatory agreement of Mota and Maori in 

 the particularized seismic meaning. 



