320 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Efate aka of relationship is repeated only in Samoa. The word for root, 

 akoa, despite its extra syllable, may be found to come into concord with 

 Polynesian aka through the equivalence of aka-koa fibers. The type of 

 root embraced in this word is the fibrous roots, as reappears here and there 

 in these definitions. 



In Melanesia the identification is intricate. The Murray Island locution 

 seems to include a form of this word. The Duke of York akar is a certain 

 identification. New Britain okor is clearly the same word, and Bugotu oga 

 comes readily into line, and Savo og-ni is recognizable. If now we accept 

 an abraded form ka, not found independently, we shall find a chain of 

 development as follows : 



gar Savo, Merlav, Mota, Alite. gor Motlav, Sasar, Omba, Maewo. 

 ger Gog, Pak, Alo Teqel. gur Lo. 



gir Volow, Mosin. 



Lakon gegi and Marina goe are not to be omitted, but they are highly 

 irregular. 



The Indonesian identifications are very clear. 



Unfortunately for the Semitic identifications offered their correlation 

 depends on the harmonizing of aka and kaka. Even then they have no 

 significations which mean fiber, root, or this specialized stipule. 



B. 



It is not improbable that aka and kaka are homogenetic, but the lan- 

 guages have not yet been sufficiently studied after my theory of coefficient 

 modulants to enable us to present any sort of proof. Ex hypothesi we 

 should have a stem ka with a broad meaning of fiber ; the element a should 

 determine the ka fiber in some such manner as to limit it to root fibers; 

 the reduplicated kaka with its intensive force should picture the interlacing 

 fibers of this natural product. Unfortunately we can not yet prove a single 

 one of these points. Our kaka is limited to Polynesia and restricted to the 

 coconut fabric except that in Tahiti it extends to the breadfruit, the bam- 

 boo, and the sugarcane, and that among the Maori, who have not in their 

 colder land the coconut, it has possibly reverted to the primordial sense of 

 anything fibrous. 



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ate, the liver (of a shark), the spleen; are, the liver; uateam, the kidneys. 

 Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Fotuna, Nuguria, Maori, Tahiti, 



Marquesas, Mangareva, Rarotonga: ate, the liver. Rapanui: 



ate, the liver, the lungs. Hawaii: ake, id. 

 Viti: yate, the liver. 

 Solomon Islands: ati, the chest. Malekula Uripiv: ere, the liver. 



New Guinea (Maclay Coast) : arre, the liver. Mota : varai, 



vare, the chest, the liver. Rubi, Suau, Dobu: ate, the liver. 



Wedau : ate, the gall bladder. Motu : ase, aze, the liver. Roro : 



ahe, id. Mekeo: ae, id. Nada: ata, id. Sariba: kate, id. 



Mukawa: katekate, id. Kiriwina: kata, id. Murua: katu, id. 



