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Viti : nggonggori, a man that a god enters when asleep, indicated by 



a singular kind of snore. 

 Motu : uru, stertorous breathing. Mota : ngora, to grunt, to snort, 



to snore. 

 Malay: ngorok, to snore. 

 Hebrew : nahar, to snort, to breathe hard through the nose. Syriac : 



nhar, id. Ethiopic: nehera, to snore. 



In Nuclear Polynesia we find the stem in association with an element 

 whose function we can not explain, ta in Samoa and Tonga, tu in Niue. 

 The remaining identifications, including the Malay, are free of difficulty. 

 The Paumotu ngooro is a rare form of duplication ; that it is a case of pre- 

 duplication is established by comparison with the Maori. 



The Semitic exhibits the usual difficulty in that it calls for the reduction 

 of a triliteral, nhr, by internal loss. 



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kita, to divine; kikita, ngkita, to perceive or feel with the eye or mind. 



Samoa: 'i'ite, to predict, to foretell; fe'ite'itea'i, to see indistinctly 

 as in the twilight, to be just distinguishable. Tonga : kite, to 

 appear, to see at a distance when at sea; kikite, fakakikite, to 

 divine, to foretell, to augur, to prophesy; jekitengaki, to be in 

 sight of each other; jakakite, to look anxiously and narrowly 

 at anything, as at what may be reported (land at sea or a vessel 

 in sight) ; fakakitekite, anything new or strange done or said by 

 a person just before his decease and afterwards referred to as a 

 prognostication. Futuna: kite, to appear; kikite, to predict, 

 to foresee, clairvoyant. Niue : kitekite, to look at, to examine ; 

 jakakite, to make known, to show; fakakiteanga, a vision, 

 Uvea: kikite, fakakikite, to augur, to divine, to prophesy; kite. 

 to appear. Maori : kite, to see, to know, to perceive ; whakakite, 

 to reveal, to disclose. Mangareva : kite, to see, to understand, 

 to perceive. Rarotonga : kite, to see. Marquesas : kite, to 

 see, to know ; haakitea, to appear. Paumotu : kite, to perceive, 

 to know; jakakite, to show, to presage. Tongarewa: kite, 

 kikite, to see ; hakakikite, to cause to see. Nukuoro : kite, to see ; 

 hakakitea, to show ; matakite, a soothsayer, a prophet. Manahiki : 

 kitea, to know. Sikayana: kite, to see. Aniwa: citi, id. 

 Tahiti : ite, to know, to understand, to perceive ; jaaite, to teach. 

 Hawaii: ike, to see, to understand, to perceive; hoike, to show. 

 Motu: kito, to spy, to watch for. 



The following mean to see: 



Panaieti: kite. Sariba: kita. Galavi, Boniki, Mukawa: kitai. 



Sariba : gita. Sinaugoro, Tubetube : gitai. Motu, Rubi, Kubiri, 



Kiviri: itai. Doura: ikai. Suau, Dobu: ita. Roro: itana. 



Raqa: iti. Oiun: itin. Pokau: ikala. Hula, Keapara: gia. 



Galoma: ia. Kabadi: is'ana. 

 Tagalog: quita, to see. Malagasy: hita, mahita, id. 

 Arabic: wagada, to find with the eye or the mind, to perceive. 



