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In Indonesia we encounter a stem with an intrusive consonant and, as 

 in 282, we can not accept the identification. The consonant skeleton of 

 Malagasy fehi, fh, readily associates with the Polynesian fs. But this 

 should not lead us astray into the idea that we have an identification of 

 stems. If ati were diphthongal and e a very long vowel it would be a great 

 task to entertain the possibility of a vowel mutation au-e. The Malagasy 

 requires even more than this: it requires the extirpation of an inner and 

 protected vowel, for fau is not diphthongal and the proof thereof lies in 

 the preduplication fafau in Samoa, Futuna, Niue, Tahiti, Mangareva. 



The Semitic hbk is certainly far away from the fs skeleton. 



284. 



bila, bilafila, to shine, to lighten, to gleam, to flash, to appear. Cf. 

 fill 295. 



Samoa: pula, pupula, to shine. Futuna: pula, to fix the eyes 

 on, to regard fixedly. Niue: pupula, to shine (of the eyes), 

 the new moon. Uvea: pupula, to shine, to glow, to gleam, 

 to beam. Maori: kapura, mapura, fire. Tahiti: pura, a 

 flash of light or fire, to flash, to blaze. Mangareva: pura, 

 a spark, to shine, to glow. Rapanui: pupura, to shine, to 

 be bright; hakapura, to kindle, to light. Paumotu: pura, 

 phosphorescent. Nukuoro: purapura, bright. Marquesas: 

 pupua, phosphorescent, shining. 



Viti: vula, white; vula, the moon. Rotuma: hula, hual, the moon. 



Nifilole: polao, the light. Bugotu, Nggela : pura, white. Santo: 

 pula, light. Baravon: puapua. id. Mota: vula, white. 



Nggela, Belaga, Marina, Arag, Mota, Vaturanga, Bugotu: vula, 

 the moon. Pokau: vula, id. Uni: bulo, id. Pokau: vuia, id. 

 Uni: buia, id. Doura: huia, id. Motu: hua, id. Keapara, 

 Galoma: hue, id. Rubi: wui, id. Omba: vule, id. Merlav, 

 Gog, Lakon: vul, id. Moanus: mbul, id. Maewo: wula, id. 

 Vuras, Mosin, Motlav, Volow: wol, id. Wango: hura, id. 



Ambrym : ola, id. Aneityum : laav, lav, to shine (of the moon). 



Malay, Ilocan: bulan, the moon. Tringanu: bulang, id. Solor: 

 burang, id. Molucca: bulam, id. Kaili: bula, id. Gilolo, 

 Solor: wulan, id. Aru: fulan, id. Rotti: fula, id. Lobo: 

 furan, id. Timor: funan, id. Togean Islands: fuya, id.; 

 buya, white. Kisa: ulang, moon. Magindano: ulan, id. 

 Utanata: uran, id. 



Arabic : barak, bara', to shine, to gleam, to flash, to glitter, to appear, 

 to lighten, to open the eyes, to glance at. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is pulaf. 



Dr. Macdonald's identification of this and the lightning stem is, of 

 course, disposed of by the comparison of this material with that assembled 

 in item 295. 



In terms of color psychology we are here dealing with the unreduced 

 ray of light, the union of the spectrum colors in white. 



Furthermore we are dealing with a singularly elemental people, but little 

 advanced in the arts, not yet emerged from the stone age. The back- 



