DATA AND NOTES. 293 



247. 

 buto, the navel. 



Samoa : pute, the navel. 



Tangoan Santo, Lambell, Lamassa : buto, the navel. New Ireland 



(Carteret Harbor) : buta, id. New Ireland (Duffield) : ambu- 



tang, id. Laur, Pala, King, Malo: bito, id. Malekula 



Pangkumu: bitou, id. Baki: burimbito, id. Buka: vuso, 



bussusse, id. Mota: putoi, id. Tanna: nu-puti, id. Tagula: 



bibido. Roro : botoa. Kabadi : puko. Mekeo : fuko. Motu : udo. 



Pokau : mudo. Mukawa : puso. Suau : uso. Tubetube : pusua. 



Awalama: buhoho. Wedau: buo. Nada, Murua: poso. 



Sariba: post. Mugula: poasi. Panaieti, Misima: pohu. 



Hula : buro. Rubi, Keapara, Galoma : bulo. Sinaugoro : ulo. 



Malay: pusat, the navel. Malagasy: fuitra, id. 



Arabic: bugrat, the navel, a knob. 



With this should be included the general Polynesian pito navel. Samoa, 



which has pute for navel, uses pito only in the sense of the end of a thing 



and \pitopito for anus, this apparently for modesty's sake in preference 



over pu. 



Maori : pito, navel, end. Tahiti : pito, navel, navel string; pitoraoere, 



the ends of a leaf surround in fishing. Marquesas : pito, navel, 



navel string, end. Mangaia : pito, navel string. Mangareva : 



pito, navel, end; pitopito, button. Paumotu: pito, navel; 



pito pito, button. Tonga: bito, navel. Niue, Rapanui, Nukuoro, 



Futuna: pito, navel. Hawaii, piko, navel, end. 



I have no hesitation in associating the two as probable offshoots of 



the same stem and as certainly alternate forms. I can not yet produce 



any one of these languages in which the two forms appear side by side, yet 



it is possible to present evidence but little inferior. We have four languages 



recorded from a sixty-mile stretch of southern coast on the west face of New 



Ireland, and three of these are so intimately associated that the differences 



are but dialect variations. In fact before the casting of this note into its 



final form the Pala speech has become accessible and shall stand as a fifth 



consenting speech. In these five we find buto in Lambell and Lamassa, bito 



in King, Laur, and Pala, all in the sense of navel. The conclusion is not 



to be gainsaid that buto and bito mean navel and that Samoan is the only 



Polynesian speech which has retained the buto form and thus avoids 



confusion with pito the end, a confusion which exists in other Polynesian 



speech, particularly of the Tongafiti swarm. 



The possession of the 5-forms in Buka and New Guinea leads the way to 

 the acceptance of the Malay pusat, regarding the final t as due to local needs. 

 But we have no evidence for the Malagasy. 

 The Arabic is scarcely a resemblance. 



248. 

 goro, koro, to snore. 



Maori: ngongoro, to snore. Mangareva: ngoro, id. Paumotu: 

 ngooro, id. Hawaii: nonolo, id. Tahiti: ooro, id. Niue: 

 tungolo, id. Samoa, Tonga: t&ngulu, id. 



