422 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



It is an invisible means in the driving of the wind, the flash of the meteor 

 silent athwart the sky on its lethal errand, the slip and slide of the stream in 

 its deep course, the set of the sea, the gliding of the canoe upon its surface. 

 Samoa, Tonga, and Efate use the unduplicated stem and establish it 

 firmly. Therefore the Arabic tdra is not acceptable despite its resemblance 

 to the single Efate form tiri, a dialectic mutation of riri. 



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titiro, to gaze into the sea looking for fish or molluscs, to look at oneself 

 in water or a mirror. 



Samoa: tilotilo, to peep, to spy; tio, sharp looking (of the eyes). 

 Nukuoro: tiro, to see. Tonga: jio, to look, to stare; jio jio, 

 to gaze, to stare about; fakajio, to peep, to look, to stare, to 

 spy, to pry; kilo, to look askant; kikilo, to look from side to 

 side. Futuna: tilo, to gaze, to look with an optical instru- 

 ment; tiloika, to watch for fish; tiloata, to look at oneself in 

 any reflecting surface ; tio, to see, to look at, to observe, to spy. 

 Maori: tiro, to look, to look at; tirotiro, to gaze around, to look 

 about, to investigate. Tahiti: titiromatatia, to gaze, to look 

 steadfastly, to cast a lustful look. Hawaii: kilo, to look ear- 

 nestly at a thing ; kilokilo, to examine carefully ; hookilo, to spy. 

 Mangaia: tiro, to look. Rapanui: titiro, to admire. Atiu: 

 titiro, to look at. Marquesas: tiohi, id. Mangareva: tiho, 

 to examine, to regard attentively; matiro, to examine. Mana- 

 hiki: titi tiro, to see. Fotuna: jironga, a looking-glass. 



Viti : tirova, to look at oneself in water, to peep at ; titiro, a viewing 

 indistinctly. 



Buka : tara, tarra, to see. Santo : titiro, a looking-glass. Mota : 

 tiro, clear; tironin, to look into a pool or mirror. 



Macassar: tiro, to spy. Malagasy : taratra, tarafina, to look, to gaze. 



Arabic : nat'ara, to gaze, to look for, to consider, to spy. 



Polynesian discloses three stems here, tio, tilo, and kilo. The kilo form 

 is found in Tonga only, for Hawaii kilo is the kappation of tilo and kilo 

 would have passed into the northern speech as ilo under its normal loss 

 of the true k. Tilo has a Proto-Samoan stem tilof, sufficient to preclude 

 the inclusion in this series of the open ilo, iloa, to see, to know. Tio has a 

 Proto-Samoan stem tiof, therefore it is well established as a derivative of 

 tilof, although the process of internal loss is quite rare in Polynesian except 

 when a letter is wholly discarded regardless of position. The Tongan 

 vocabulary shows no protected form of kilo whereby we might determine 

 its earlier stem. The sense of looking at oneself in water or in the lately 

 introduced mirror is found in Samoa, Futuna, Viti, Fotuna, Efate, Santo, 

 and Mota. 



Though scanty, our Melanesian and Indonesian identifications are 

 satisfactory. 



The Arabic stems in ntr, the Polynesian in trf, and these are by no means 

 in accord. 



