300 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Aneityum: emetmat, raw, not dry or seasoned; mat, new, raw. 

 Bierian: nmata, raw. Tanna: (t)e'mta, id. 



Macassar: mala, raw, unripe. Malay: matang, mantah, id. Mala- 

 gasy: mania, id. 



Arabic : 'anut'a, to be raw. 



The dissimilant duplication of Aneityum emetmat establishes perfectly 

 the unity of Efate meta and the mata which belongs to the Polynesian of 

 both migrations. The other Melanesian forms are readily recognizable, and 

 in Indonesia the series is confirmatory inter se. The Arabic is, of course, 

 entitled to no consideration. 



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 miel, mimiel, red. 



Samoa: melomelo, memelo, red. Tonga: melo, melomelo, brown, 



ripe. Futuna: memelo, red. Hawaii: meomeo, omeomeo. 



red, orange, blushing. Mangareva: metometo, yellow, orange. 



Rarotonga : muramura, red. Bukabuka : kura melo, light red. 

 Mota: mera, red light in morning or evening sky. Vaturanga: 



mera, yellow. Wango : meramera, red. Fagani : merameraga, id. 



Baravon: mera mere, id. Bugotu: mela, id. Buka: mar ara, id. 



Laur: mirik, id. Sesake: miala, id. 

 Malay, Gah, Baju: merah, red, bay. Bouton: merai, red. Awaiya: 



meranate, id. Salibabo: maramutah, id. Malagasy: mena, id. 

 Arabic: ma"ir', reddish; 'am"aru, of the color of red clay. 



In the Polynesian the stem ismelo. Its appearance as meto in Mangareva 

 is unusual, but not without the precedent of an l-t mutation. The Raro- 

 tonga mula is a valuable transition form in respect of the final vowel, to 

 link the Polynesian and the Melanesian. In the Bukabuka locution we find 

 melo used in limitation of the more widely diffused word for red, kura. 



In Melanesia the stem is mera, with which mar a in Buka mar ara is readily 

 associable; while Baravon merarnere naturally leads to Laur mirik. 



In Indonesia also the stem is mera, both independently and in composi- 

 tion, and mara also appears. Malagasy mena is more remote yet not 

 improbable. 



We have yet to discuss two puzzling forms, Efate miel and Sesake miala, 

 which are evidently in close consociation. If it were not for the intrusive i 

 they would fall into ready alignment with the mela-mala stem of Melanesia, 

 but in the present stage of our knowledge we are quite at a loss to account 

 for the intrusion of the vowel. We may feel that these anomalous forms 

 derive from the common stem, but we have no proof which we may bring 

 to bear. The preduplicated Efate mimiel shows that the vowel i is no mere 

 accident, but is regarded as an essential part of the syllable mi, and therefore 

 structural. 



To bring our author's Semitic into alignment calls for the evisceration of 

 an interior consonant, the strongest palatal at that and perfectly supported. 

 Even if that were permissible, which is open to grave doubt, the Arabic 

 ma l 'ir would be brought only imperfectly into likeness with no more stand- 

 ard a form than the miel-miala which we have just seen to be wholly 

 unaccountable deviations from regular stem forms. 



