322 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



277. 

 aiia (awa), naiia, ua, veins, muscles. 



Samoa: ua, sinews, tendons, veins, arteries. Tonga: uoua, sinew, 

 tendon; uouatanu, deep, out of sight, the veins of the arms. 

 Futuna: ua, vein, sinew, muscle; uaica, veins which show. 

 Uvea: ua, vein. Maori : uaua, a sinew, vein, artery. Tahiti: 

 uaua, sinew, tendon, ligament, vein. Marquesas: uaua, vein, 

 artery, nerve, tendon. Mangareva: ua, tendon, vein, nerve. 

 Rapanui: ua, sinew, tendon; uaua, vein. Paumotu: tareua, 

 tendon. Moriori: uau, artery. Nuguria: nauka, vein. 



Hawaii: aa, vein. 

 Viti: ua, a vein, muscle; vakaua, uauana, muscular, strong. 

 Laur: urat, vein. 



Malay: urat, nerve, sinew. Matu: tirat, vein, sinew. Ilocan: 

 urat, vein. Tagalog: ugat, id. Pampangas: uy at, id. Kayan: 

 uat, sinew. Java: wad (through uhat, uat), vein, muscle. 

 Bugi: urdk, vein. Malagasy: uzatra, huzatra, vein. 

 Arabic: 'irk', 'araka, veins. 

 Excising the article a(na) the Efate ua accords with the ua of Polynesia 

 in form and general signification. In the crude anatomical knowledge of 

 these races it is easy to see what zia really is, the cordlike bodies in the flesh 

 which appear under the skin. Thus vein and tendon are the same thing 

 and one word describes them. It is not until we reach Hawaiian aa that 

 we find any variant of ua. 



Our only Melanesian identification is Laur urat. This is a form which 

 appears exactly in three Malayan languages. Laur is right in the east gate 

 in a region where it is possible to suspect a late Malayan source of the word 

 after the Polynesian migration had passed through. 



The Indonesian forms exhibit a remarkable treatment of the ua stem, so 

 remarkable that we may entertain grave doubts of their identity. There 

 is everywhere one consonant unaccountable and generally two, the Polyne- 

 sian stem nowhere exhibiting the slightest trace of any consonant. Kayan 

 uat is the nearest approach to ua; from that to Malay urat we have a steadily 

 strengthening chain. These two consonants are such as the Polynesian 

 would have had no difficulty in preserving had they been primordial. 



The Semitic here offered is yet farther removed from ua; it is even 

 stronger than urat, which only imperfectly does it resemble. 



278. 

 bwa, ua, boua, to rain. 



Samoa, Fakaafo, Futuna, Uvea, Fotuna, Nuguria, Maori, Tahiti, 

 Hawaii, Rarotonga, Marquesas, Mangareva, Rapanui, Manahiki : 

 ua, rain. Aniwa: ua, towa, id. Sikayana: oua, id. Nukuoro: 

 mata-ua, raindrop. Tonga, Niue: uha, rain. 

 Viti: utha, rain. Rotuma: ttas, id. 



The following signify rain : 



Sesake, Marina, Tangoan Santo, Suau, Maewo: tisa. Dobu, Kubiri: 

 usana. Kiviri: usan. Sariba: kuse. Vaturanga, Bugotu, 

 Nggela: uha. Deni: ua. Epi: ua, yua. Baki: yuo. 



