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Viti: manga, pudendum rauliebre. 



Mota: manga, an opening with lips, mouth, to open, to gape. 



Malay : manga, open ; mangah, to pant, to palpitate ; nganga, to gape. 



Ethiopic :naka K a, to gape, to yawn, to be rent, parted, sundered ;nka'at, 



an opening, gap, fissure. Arabic: naka'a, to rend asunder. 



This forms an excellent and consistent series from Polynesia to Indonesia. 



The Semitic identifications proposed by our author have not the least 



connection with the Polynesian m-ng root. 



231. 

 mina, pleasant, nice. 



Samoa; momona, fat, rich (of pigeons and fish). Tonga: momona, 

 fat (as shellfish). Futuna: momona, flesh of sea food. Maori: 

 momona, fat, rich, fertile. Hawaii: mona, fat, rich, fertile, 

 round, plump, the fat of an animal. Tahiti: mona, momona, 

 sweet, delicious. Marquesas : momona, delicious, good to taste, 

 fat part of an animal. Mangareva: momona, grease, fat. 

 Paumotu: momona, odor, savor. 

 Viti: mona, brains. 



Malagasy: monamonany, fat, plump, of a child or young animal. 

 Arabic: 'anik\ pleasant, nice. 

 The Marquesas combines the two significations of fat meat and deli- 

 cious. The meat sense runs through Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Maori, Hawaii, 

 Mangareva. In 142 we have seen a word beginning in oil and ending in 

 brains; the Viti attains the same end from an equally greasy beginning. 

 The Paumotu momona has undergone a particular and independent special- 

 ization. Taking a fresh start from the Marquesas and examining the sense 

 of delicious we find that to be the only sense in Tahiti and Ef ate ; possibly 

 it may be inferred in the rich of Samoa, Maori and Hawaii. 

 Again Dr. Macdonald's Semitic is not even a resemblance. 



232. 

 mitei, breadfruit fermented and preserved. Cf. mutrei 6. 



Samoa : mast, fermented breadfruit ; matt, stale (of water, coconuts, 

 kava) . Futuna : mast, breadfruit or bananas fermented ; matt, 

 wilted and yellow, of leaves of tobacco and taro. Nukuoro: 

 mast, bad-smelling. Tonga: mahi, sour, acid; maji, sour, 

 decayed, as the nut when kept too long. Tahiti : mahi, bread- 

 fruit fermented. Mangareva: cf. mahimahi, cooked food kept 

 until the next day to make it better. 

 Viti : masimasia, the breadfruit in a certain state. 

 Malay: masin, salt. Malagasy: masimasina, saltish. 

 Arabic: mast', salt (of water). 

 The alternative form mutrei I have (note 6) carried out to its Viti con- 

 gener mandrai. 



This form mitei we may adopt as related to the Polynesian mast, as set 

 forth above. I have noted the Polynesian mati as being nearer mitei 

 in form, but it clearly has no connection in sense. Mati carries the impli- 

 cation of being unfit to eat, and no Polynesian would think so ill of his mast, 

 even though the odor is overpowering to Europeans and suggests the reflec- 

 tion that stale would be but a weak description. I am not quite confident 



