414 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



The Arabic approaches but a small sector of the sense of tangis, shows 

 no sign of the radical s, and is really in resemblance only so far as relates 

 to the initial consonant, no satisfactory showing of kinship. 



347. 

 tai, excrement, filth. 



Samoa: tae, excrement. Tonga: tae, excrement; tee, dung of 



animals. Futuna: tae, excrement. Uvea: tae, id. Niue: 

 te, id. Maori: tae, gum exuding from plants; tahae, filth; 

 tutae, excrement. Tahiti: tutae, tiatae, id. Marquesas: kae, 

 slaver; tutae, excrement. Mangaia, Mangareva, Paumotu: 

 tutae, id. Rapanui: tutae, excrement, mildew. Moriori: 

 hokotae, disgusting, abominable. Hawaii: kukae, excrement, 

 dirt, filth; haukae, filthiness; kae, the exterior of the anus. 

 Fotuna: tah-tai, excrement. 

 Viti : nda, excrement of man ; ndc, of beast. 



Motu: tage, excrement. Hula: kage, id. Matupit: taka, id. 



Brierly Island : tai, dung. Malo : tai, excrement. Baki : ta, te, id. 



Mota: ta, tae, id. Malekula: ne-ten, id. Aneityum: in-tin, id. 



Malay, Macassar: tai, dung, ordure, excrement. Magindano: tae, id. 



Malagasy: tay, id. 

 Hebrew: seah, excrement, filth, from yasa' to go out. 

 The simple stem tae is Proto-Samoan, the Tongafiti has tutae. This 

 discrimination gives us a time measure for the Moriori hokotae (Jioko is 

 the equivalent of }aka of resemblance). Once more we have a landmark 

 of the direct southern migration and we find it to be Proto-Samoan. 



Tonga and Viti distinguish between man and beast, and by the same 

 means. A similar form distinction is found in Baki, but we lack informa- 

 tion of a corresponding source distinction. In Aneityum in-tin refers to 

 beasts and a word of another stem, nohok, refers to men. 



That this should voluntarily be assumed as a personal name passes 

 comprehension. Yet in the ancient story of the swimming sisters (terato- 

 logically a Siamese twin monster) of Samoa the first object seen glistening 

 on a Tutuila beach on which they came to shore caused one of the sisters 

 to give herself the name Taenia (ma to shine). Exactly the same word 

 appears in Mota gak taenia as an endearing expression of admiration. 



The Motu and Matupit forms with an inner palatal are listed for so much 



resemblance as they possess ; I doubt their affinity. The Malekula ten and 



Aneityum tin are of this stem with the local assumption of w-ephelkustic. 



The Indonesian identifications are quite satisfactory. I note again the 



accord with the Proto-Samoan rather than the Tongafiti and later form. 



Except for the subject the Hebrew offering can have nothing whatever 

 to do with this stem. 



348- 

 tale, a belt, rope, string. 



Nukuoro : tali, a rope. 



Viti: ndali, a rope or large cord. 



Mota: tali, a cord. Wango: tali, a rope. 



Malay: tali, a rope, string, bandage. Malagasy: tadi, a rope. 



Arabic : dara, to go round, to whirl, to turn. 



