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synonym tei as well ; we are without evidence to support a mutation from 

 labial to lingual among the mutes and will not venture to suggest that tei 

 is homogenetic with pei, but it certainly means the same thing. This 

 may explain the Nggela beti, a determinant compound of the two stems 

 which, among others, have one like meaning (14 Journal of the Polynesian 

 Society, 41). We are left with Baravon tava; it is permissible to see in 

 va an abraded derivative of vai; the ta may be associable with Marina 

 tei, with Nggela beti and, even more remote, with Aniwa tavai, of course 

 with the possibility that in the last form the ta may prove to be the weak 

 demonstrative functioning as article. 



We have already examined such of the Indonesian variants of the vai 

 stem as have been found in concord with the general mutation. There yet 

 remain for us distinctively Indonesian types of mutation. These involve 

 assumption of a final liquid. Based on the wai type we may follow this 

 from Waigiou wayer through Gani, Mysot, Batumerah, Morella, Awaiya, 

 Caimarian, Teluti, Dorey, Liang, Teor. A shorter series based on the ai 

 type begins in Malay ayer and runs through Menado, Champa, and Goram, 

 with Silong awaen in some way connected. 



The initial consonant of the vai stem has run a long course, even to extinc- 

 tion, in our three island areas, but nowhere has it approached an m which 

 might give warrant for accepting the proposed Semitic identifications. 



292. 

 fanua, inhabited country, land. 



Samoa: fanua, the land, the earth, the ground. Aniwa: fanua, 

 the whole earth, the land, the soil. Fotuna: fanua, land, 

 country. Futuna : fenua, people, race, nation, land, country. 

 Uvea, Tahiti, Sikayana, Moiki, Fakaafo, Vate: fenua, land, 

 country. Nuguria: henua, id. Marquesas: fenua, henua, id. 

 Rapanui: heenua, id.; puheenua, soil. Paumotu, Manahiki: 

 henua, land, country. Maori: whenua, the whole earth, a 

 country, land, the ground, the soil. Bukabuka: whenua, 

 land. Rarotonga, Bukabuka: enua, id. Mangareva: enua, 

 land, used to denote shallow places in the sea. Tonga : fonua, 

 the whole earth, a country, the land, the soil. Niue: fonua, 

 land, soil, mold. Hawaii: honua, id. 

 Viti: vanua, a land, a region. Rotuma: hanua, land. 

 Arag, Vanua Lava, Marina, Maewo: vanua, land. Sesake: vanua, 

 a place, a village. Malo: vanua, land, house. Mota: vanua, 

 a place, island, land, village. Kabadi: vanua, village. Pokau: 

 vanua, land, village. Uni: vanua, land. Omba: vanue, 

 land. Lakon: vanu, id. Baki: venuo, land, country. Duke 

 of York: wanna, id. Galoma: banua, village. Mekeo: 



pangua, land, village. Panaieti: pangua, land. Ugi: vanua, 

 hanua, id. Laur: hanua, a place. Lambell: 'hanua, id.; 

 hanua, a town. Motu: hanua, a village. Tubetube: ianua, 

 land, village. Suau: eanua, village. Lamassa: fdnu, a 

 place; fanu, a town. Bierian: fanua, land, country. Roro: 

 anua, land. Rubi: anu, village. Epi: venua, land. Santo: 

 venua, a house, a village. Malekula: fenu, land. Retan: 



