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tional prefix, for we recognize in imi a verb-formative prefix of a causative 

 value. Fagani maguta is metathetic from the neighboring Bugotu matagu. 

 To associate King matut with the matakut stem involves the extirpation of 

 an inner and therefore abundantly protected syllable, a syllable of a type 

 (ak) to class which as a syllable would be doing violence to the whole 

 structure of the Polynesian word ; furthermore I can find in the brief King 

 vocabulary no other word of Polynesian resemblance which depends upon 

 such a procedure. Against these valid objections we raise in support of 

 matut only its resemblance. Tanna meheker is another case of resemblance. 



These resemblances are by no means without their value. On the theory 

 that the Polynesian content of Melanesian is loan material we should expect 

 to find for many words no more than the ghost and echo. On a far higher 

 culture plane it is notorious that Hodge, when he marries according to the 

 ordinances of the Church of England as by law established, solemnly avers 

 "with all my worldly goods I thee and thou," the echo of a word of his 

 native language. 



To establish Lemaroro viarau and Baki merou as even a resemblance it 

 will be necessary to maintain the t-r mutation ; this is found in our material 

 four times: in fatu (294) stone Malekula var, talinga (350) ear Malekula 

 Pangkumu riringa, ate (276) liver Malekula Uripiv ere, futi (329) banana 

 Moanus mbur. If this be considered sufficiently well established we find 

 in marau a variant of the Efate matau, a reduced form involving the loss 

 of the k, which nowhere else appears until we encounter it ultimately in 

 extreme eastern Polynesia. 



The Indonesian identifications have already been mentioned as preserv- 

 ing the primal stem. 



In the Semitic offered for our consideration the verb has a partial resem- 

 blance to the takut stem, the t being represented by a palatal. The resem- 

 blance of the noun is more specious than real, for it is hard to see why, when 

 there is already a verb or bare stem, we are to accept an almost inflected 

 form as a noun to enter upon a new course of activity in the Pacific as a 



verb. 



259. 



nabati, tooth. 



vSamoa, Tonga, Niue, Futuna, Uvea, Fakaafo, Fotuna, Vate, Moiki: 

 nifo, a tooth. Nukuoro, Aniwa, Maori, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mar- 

 quesas, Mangareva, Manahiki, Rapanui, Paumotu: niho, id. 

 Sikayana: nitcho, id. Mangaia, Rarotonga: nio, id. Nuguria: 

 ngiho, id. 

 Ulawa, Saa, Bululaha : niho, tooth. Buka : niho, liho, lihon,uliho, id. 

 Lifu: nyo, id. Iai: niou, id. Fagani: lijo, id. Alite, 



Vaturanga, Nggela, Bierian, Epi: livo, id. Arag: liwo, id. 

 Mota, Maewo: liwoi, id. Motlav: lewo, nc-lwo, id. Ugi, 

 Bougainville: liho, id. Wango: riho, id. Mukawa: nibo, id. 

 Awalama: niwo, id. Tavara: niuwo, id. Taupota, Wedau: 

 ivo, id. Roro: nihena, id. Kabadi: nise,id. Pala: ngise, id. 

 Motu: hise, id. Mekeo: ni'e, id. Pokau: nike, id. Doura: 

 ike, id. Uni: igeo, id. Galavi, Boniki: oke, id. Panaieti: 

 ni, id. Tubetube, Misima: nini, id. Tagula: nungi, id. 

 Makekula: riho, id. 



