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of the upward progression therefrom, uvi, is found in Fagani, and probably 

 in Pokau if we regard veu as a 231 metathetic form. The next stage, the 

 passage to the aspiration, is found in Wango and Saa uhi, Motu uhe, and 

 in the abraded uJi of Aneityum and Pala. A further step is represented 

 by the uwi of Efate. Last of all we find that the consonant has vanished 

 to extinction in ui, also of Efate. In the downward progression the first 

 step rests upon the ubi of New Caledonia and the Baki yubi; the next upon 

 the abraded up of Eromanga and Baravon. The last degeneration is shown 

 in the u of Makura and New Ireland. In Tanna n-uk shows a mutation, 

 labial to palatal, which we should scarcely be able to support if it were not 

 that Rotuma, far more intimately within the Polynesian sphere, has also 

 the form uk. 



In Indonesia we find five identifications of the most satisfactory character. 



The Arabic "ayab offers several difficulties in form besides its manifest 

 lack of connection in sense, even after the pleasing parenthetical informa- 

 tion. The guttural "might readily pass into k as in kuvi, but that is an 

 uncertain form at best and in the wide range of the stem the initial k is 

 nowhere else discoverable. The duplicated u in Tonga, Uvea, and Futuna 

 is in no sense a parallel to argue a double vowel sound persisting after the 

 dropping of the y in "ayab, for the uu in these three languages is no more 

 than a device to express the long vowel in a font of mission type which 

 lacked the macron. 



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angiengi, the air, breeze; in, the wind, the air; langi, the wind. 



Samoa : angi, to blow (of the wind) ; angiangi, to blow gently. 

 Tonga : angi, to blow ; angiangi, to begin to blow. Futuna : 

 angi, angiangi, to blow. Niue: aw^', id. Uvea: angiangi, id. 

 Nukuoro: angi, the wind; angiangi, a fan. Maori: angi, a 

 gentle breeze; hengi, to blow gently. Mangareva: angi, a 

 light wind ; angiangi, to blow gently. Moriori : hokaangi, to 

 shake in the wind. Hawaii: ant, aneane, to blow gently. 

 Marquesas : ani, the air. 



Samoa, Tonga, Fakaafo, Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Maori, Mangaia, Mana- 

 hiki, Rarotonga, Mangareva: matangi, the wind. Paumotu: 

 matangi, the air. Rapanui: matangi, the air, a squall. 

 Sikayana, Nuguria, Liueniua: matani, the wind. Hawaii: 

 makani, id. Tahiti: matai, id. Marquesas: metani, meiaki, id. 

 Aniwa: tu-mtangi, id. Fotuna: mtangi, id. 



Viti: thangi, the wind, the atmosphere; thangina, to be blown away 

 by the wind. Rotuma: lang, the wind. 



Tanna, Eromanga: matangi, the wind. Tanna: mtangi, id. Anei- 

 tyum: nimtinjop, id. Lemaroro: langi, id. Sesake, Paama, 

 Mota: lang, id. Nengone: 'n lang, id. Ambrym: leng, ling, 

 ying, id. JJeaiang, id. Malekula: ni-en, id. Tobi: yang, id. 



Malay: angin, the wind, air, atmosphere. Java, Visayas, Tagalog, 

 Magindano: hangin, the wind. Bicol: hagnin, id. Bugi: 

 anging, id. Kisa: ange, id. Malagasy: anina, id. 



Arabic : nasama, to blow gently ; nasam',na'sam, nasim', a light wind. 



