338 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



ahine, id. Ambrym: vihin, id. Suau, Sariba, Tube tube 

 sine, id. Dobu: sinesine, id. Mugula: sina, id. Dobu 

 ine, id. Eromanga: sivin, id. Moanus: pein, id. Uea 

 in, a girl. Nifilole: singenda, woman. Pala: hahin, id 

 Volow: linggmbweven, id. Motlav: Ikmbwovin, id. Lo 



lakwavina, id. Mota: wte, feminine. Malo: othwm', woman, 

 female. Malekula : ne-ven, old woman, young woman ; febin, 

 female ; nev-seven, woman, female ; febinin, man's sister. Tanna : 

 nau vene(n), man's sister. Baki: buvino, female; kovivine, 

 man's sister. Bierian: fafine, woman, female; fefine, man's 

 sister; buvino, female. 

 Sulu: fina, a woman. Massaratty: fineh, id. Mayapo: gefineh, id. 

 Ahtiago: vina, id. Teor: mewina, id. Bouton: bawine, id. 

 Java: winih, the female of animals. Sanguir: mahoweni, 



woman. Waigiou Alf uros : bin, id. Malay: bini, id. Gah: 

 binei, id. Cajeli: umbinei, id. Salibabo: babineh, id. Mysot, 

 Waigiou: />&», id. Gani: mapin, id. Saparua: pipina, id. 

 Liang, Morella, Lariko, Awaiya, Caimarian : mahina, id. Teluti : 

 ihina, id. Madura: bahini, id. Salayer: baini, id. Batu- 

 merah: mainai, id. Silong: benaing, id. Macassar: banie, 

 daughter. Ilocan: babai, woman. Malagasy: tow, female; 

 vehivavy, woman. 



Of the Efate forms /o/?we is in full accord with the Polynesian. Our 

 author proposes fite as a mutant of fine; the material shows but a single 

 instance of n-t mutation, namn (328) mosquito Alo Teqel torn; fite and 

 bite, if coordinated with fine, stand by themselves in a class apart in the 

 handling of this stem. 



The primal stem is fine, and this it is which carries the sex sense. We find 

 it in independent existence in Tonga, Uvea, Maori, Fotuna, Aniwa, Uea, 

 Mota, Tanna, Murua, and in composition away from the type forms in 

 Belaga vinekama and in Moanus. 



The most common form in which this stem appears is fafine. Neglecting 

 the range of variation of the /, fafine is found throughout Polynesia and 

 Melanesia, less frequently in Indonesia. Upon this as a secondary stem 

 several compounds are erected. 



Mafine is a secondary stem which is found in Samoa, the Paumotu, 

 Tahiti, and Mangareva. 



T a fine is found in Aniwa and Mota. 



Sifine is found in Malekula nev-seven, Eromanga sivin, and metathetic 

 in Ambrym vihin. 



In Volow, Motlav and Lo we find a composite of fine with another stem 

 which it is impossible to identify. Nifilole singenda seems scarcely possible 

 of correlation, and Viti alevoa is also anomalous. 



The Indonesian forms are readily reducible to the foregoing forms, fine, 

 the most common, and mafine more frequent in reference to fafine than in 

 the Pacific. 



Macdonald's explanation is that fafine is a composite wherein the first 

 member is human being and the second characterizes it as feminine. We 

 may not yet isolate the particular sense of fa, ma, ta, which we find in our 



