276 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



the open stem by attraction from a New Hebridean neighbor. If fulun be 

 the Proto-Samoan stem its affiliates will be the b-l-n forms of Efate. To 

 associate therewith the b-l-s forms entails an n-s mutation of which we 

 can not find a single trace in this material. 



The Malay and the Semitic identifications do not come up for consider- 

 ation at all. 



221. 

 bwoa, nabwo, tamo, to emit odor; bwon, odor. Cf. 139. 



Samoa : poa, a yam having a fragrant odor ; poapoa, fishy smelling ; 

 fa'apoa, to feed young children with fish. Futuna : poa, popoa, 

 to smell fishy ; poa tai, odor of the sea. Tonga : boa, the name 

 of a species of yam, the smell of fish ; fakaboa, to scent anything 

 with fish, to smell of fish ; tauboa, to scent the water with fish 

 to catch others. 

 Viti : mboi, to emit an odor. 

 Malay: bua, odor. Malagasy: fufuna, id. 

 Arabic : faha, fall' a, to emit odor. 



222. 

 but i, buti, futi, to pluck (as a fowl), to pluck out or up (as weeds) ; mafuti, 

 to be plucked. 



Samoa : futi, to pluck feathers or hair, to pull up weeds ; fufuti, to 

 haul in the fishing line. Futuna : futi, to pull out feathers or 

 hair ; futitaula, to raise the anchor. Niue : futi, to draw up 

 (as a fish on a line), to hoist (as a flag), to pluck (as a hair). 

 Nukuoro : futi, to pick, to pluck. Sikayana : ufuti, to pull or 

 haul. Tonga: fufuji, to pull, to stretch out; fuji, to pull, to 

 pluck, to deplume. Maori: huti, huhuti, to hoist, to pull up 

 out of the ground ; huti-ika, to pull up a fish. Tahiti : huti, 

 to pull or draw up a fishing line, to hoist a flag ; huhuti, to pluck 

 feathers, hair, grass. Marquesas : huhuti, to pull one another 

 by the hair; hutihuti, to pull out the feathers of a bird, to pull 

 the hair. Mangareva: huhuti, to pull up as by the roots; 

 hutihuti, to pull up herbs, to pull out feathers ; uhuti, to pull up 

 by the roots. Paumotu : hutihuti, to denude the body of hair. 

 Rapanui : huhuti, to weed ; hutihuti, to pluck feathers. Hawaii : 

 huki, to draw, to pull ; uhuki, to pull up as grass or weeds. 



Viti: vutia, to pluck feathers or hair, to pull up grass or weeds. 



Mota : cf . pit, to take up or off with the tips of the fingers, to pick, 

 to pluck. 



Malay: bantun, to pluck, pull out. 



Arabic: namasa, to pluck out, as hairs. 



Because of its signification I collate Mota pit, yet with some hesitation 

 because of the fact that in the study of some 1 50 Mota words homogenetic 

 with Samoa this is the only instance of the f-p mutation. This objection 

 rests upon this case rather than the broader knowledge of consonant move- 

 ments in these languages, for f-p is a sufficiently well-established mutation 

 in the true Polynesian and appears frequently in the Melanesian material 

 here collated. 



