418 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Kiviri: kakan, id.; kan, spittle. Volow: ngih, to spit. Motlav: 

 nih, id. New Ireland (Carteret Harbor): piniss, id. Alite: 

 ngilu, id. Motu: kanudi, id. Pokau: anodi, spittle, to spit. 

 Boniki: kanuna, spittle. Mukawa: kanuta, id. Sinaugoro: 

 kanunu, spittle, to spit. Rubi: kanuru, id. Hula: kaninu, id. 

 Keapara: aninu, id. Nada: kinura, id. Misima: kunruvi, 

 to spit. Wedau: anumai, spittle. Galoma: aniulu, to spit ; 

 atiulu, spittle, to spit. Kabadi : ainuku, to spit. Malekula : 

 rw£, id. Malo: lito, id. 

 Malay: ludah, to spit. 

 Arabic: rawwala, tarwilu, spittle. 

 Three stages of stem form are included in these data, kanus, anus, nus. 

 The longer form kanus is found most definitely in the Viti stream. Motu 

 gives us kanudi, the s-d mutation having already been noted in this lan- 

 guage in sina (342) to shine Motu dina and receiving support from similar 

 mutations to be found in the table. Efate with k-t mutation gives us 

 the abraded form tanu, and Viti comes back to normal in kannsi. New 

 Georgia, with an inner mutation later to be discussed, falls into this line, 

 and so, but less obviously, does Lo ngenguh. Gaimard's New Ireland form 

 maybe taken as an obscure record of a kanus form, but no particular reliance 

 is to be placed upon it. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is anus, abraded to anu in modern Polynesian, 

 save where formative suffixes have availed to protect the terminal conso- 

 nant. This reaches into Rotuma onusi and with slight modification to 

 Nggela and Bugotu angusu. As a closed stem it is found in Mota anus and 

 Lakon anuh. 



The nus stem is found in Wango and Fagani ngusu, Saa and Ulawa 

 ngisu, Bululaha nisu, Volow ngih, Motlav nih. Nggao misu involves an 

 n-m mutation for which we have no confirmatory data save such as may be 

 derived from the ng-m, m-n, m-ng listed in the table. It follows so 

 closely upon Bululaha nisu that it is probably safe to accept it. Alite 

 ngilu involves another mutation, s-I, for which we lack outside support 

 save as it may be found in s-r discussed in note 329. 



Malekula rut and Malo lito fall into accord with Malay ludah, but it 

 would require a long line of well-established transition forms to bring that 

 into affinity with any part of the kanus stem. 

 And the Arabic is utterly out of place. 



352. 

 tas, tasi, the sea, salt : 



Tonga: tahi, the sea; fakatahitahi, to wet with salt water; taitai, 

 brackish. Niue: tahi, the sea, the seacoast, the tide; puke 

 tahi, vaitahi, salt water. Samoa, Maori, Rapanui, Nuguria : 

 tai, the sea, the tide. Futuna, Tahiti, Mangaia: tai, the sea, 

 the seacoast. Marquesas : tai, the sea, the shore ; taitai, slightly 

 salt. Mangareva : tai, the sea, the shore, salt water. Tonga - 

 rewa: tai, salt. Nukuoro: tai, the sea, salt water, the south. 

 Uvea, Rarotonga, Manahiki, Aniwa, Fotuna, Vate: tai, the sea. 

 Sikayana : waitai, salt water. Hawaii : kai, sea, salt water. 

 Viti: tathi, the sea. Rotuma: sasi, sosi, seas, id. 



