318 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



In Polynesia angi is generally the verb ; the noun matangi is a composite 

 of angi in its earlier attributive value with mala (324). Only in Nukuoro 

 and in Maori, Mangareva, and the Marquesas does angi function as noun. 

 The Proto-Samoan stem is hangi, this being the true light aspiration which 

 has wholly vanished in the current phase of the languages and is recoverable 

 only from Viti thangi. With this angi is affiliated the angiengi of Efate. 



So, too, in an abraded and degraded form is, in my opinion, Efate in. 

 In its first stage, the simple abrasion, we find Uea (Loyalties) ang; parallel 

 with this, but in the remoter Micronesian area, is Tobi yang. Thus we 

 reach Ambrym ying, from which it is but a simple step to in. Another 

 short step thence leads us to ni-en of Malekula. 



The common Polynesian matangi appears intact in two of the languages 

 of the New Hebrides, of which Tanna has a shortened form mtangi, which 

 also appears in the Polynesian verge islands Aniwa and Fotuna. A yet 

 further deviation from this stem is the rude ni-mtinjop of Aneityum. 



Interwoven with these wind words we find langi. I feel that this is the 

 Polynesian langi sky borrowed with only a general regard for its sense. 

 We find it in the wind meaning and in its full langi form in Efate and 

 Lemaroro; abraded in Sesake, Paama, Mota and Nengone; abraded and 

 subjected to vowel deterioration in Ambrym leng, ling. Of these Nengone 

 and Mota express the sky by Melanesian words. The Melanesian lang wind 

 occurs in Rotuma, which uses langi for the sky. 



In Indonesia the primal aspiration is retained in Java, the Visayas, Tag- 

 alog, Magindano and Bicol ; and in these and in the other instances cited 

 the identification is wholly satisfactory except for the apparent inversion 

 gn in Bicol. 



Between hangi and Semitic triliterals nsm it is impossible to see any 



relation. 



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(a) aka, koa, stringy, fibrous ; akoa na, ako ana, root (literal and figurative) ; 



aka na, ek, eka na, a relative, family connection (considered 

 as root or offshoot from) . 



Samoa : a' a, fibers of a root, family connections, a plant whose root 

 is sometimes eaten. Tonga: aka, the root of trees, to take 

 root in the earth. Futuna : aka, root in general, a vine with an 

 edible root. Niue : vaka, a root ; aka, a soft-leaved creeping 

 plant whose root is eaten in time of scarcity. Uvea : aka, 



root. Maori : aka, long fibrous roots, a climbing plant. Tahiti : 

 aa, roots. Hawaii: aa, small roots. Marquesas: aka, a 

 root; eka, young roots of trees from which native cloth is made. 

 Rarotonga, Nukuoro, Rapanui, Paumotu : aka, root. Nuguria : 

 haka, id. 



Viti: yaka, a creeper whose root is edible. 



(b) kaka naniu, the fibrous substance, like coarse cloth, that grows around 



the stem of the coconut. 

 Samoa : 'a'a, lau'a'a, the fibrous stipule of the coconut leaf. Tonga : 

 kaka, thin fibrous substance found around the young coconut. 

 Futuna: MM, species of tissue which grows on the coconut. 

 Maori : kaka, anything fibrous or stringy. Marquesas : kaka, 



