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356. 

 toa, t5wa, to', a domestic fowl, a bird. 



Moiki: toa, a fowl. Samoa: toa, a cock. Rapanui: moa, toa, id. 



Viti: toa, a fowl. 



Sesake, Epi, Arag, Mota, Malo, Marina, Gog, Omba: toa, a fowl. 

 Ambrym, Malekula, Lakon, Norbarbar, Pak, Sasar, Vuras, 

 Mosin, Alo Teqel, Motlav, Lo : to, id. Ulawa, Fagani, Bululaha, 

 Alite, Wango, Saa: kua, id. Santo: toa, a bird. Baki: ju, 

 a fowl. Bierian: so, id. 



Malay: ay am, a bird. Ceram: tofi, towim, id. Bum: tehui, 

 teput, id. 



Hebrew: 'of, bird. Arabic: 'a'f, a fowl. 



The solitary instance in Polynesian of toa a fowl in place of the common 

 moa is in Moiki, an island of the western verge. This is balanced by 

 Rotuma moa a cock. Of the Viti toa Hazlewood makes the note "a vosa 

 maivei beka na toa — where in the world does this word toa come from?" 

 As toa and to the word is abundantly established in the New Hebrides, a 

 sufficient answer to this question. Bierian so may be regarded as a to- 

 derivative, and Baki ju argues a tu variant of to. This suggest a tua, from 

 which we might derive kua in the Solomon Islands ; unfortunately the t-k 

 mutation, though common enough elsewhere, finds little confirmation in 

 these languages. 



Not one of the Indonesian identifications seems to bear any relation to toa. 



Dr. Macdonald would have found his task easier if he had essayed to 

 prove Dame Partlet of Rotuma a mother in Israel, for in that language the 

 hen is nof. Certainly his Semitic offerings suggest no kinship with toa. 



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 toko, to rest, to sit down, to dwell, to remain, to be. 



Samoa : to' a, to subside, to settle down, to coagulate. Uvea : toka, 

 to fall; totoka, to coagulate, to curdle. Tonga: toka, to lie 

 down, to be, sediment. Futuna: toka, to fall, to lie down. 

 Niue: toka, to remain. Maori: totoka, to congeal. 



Viti : tiko, to sit, to be (of persons) ; toka, to stand, to be placed 

 (chiefly of things inanimate) ; toka levu, to sit with arms and 

 legs abroad as one in pain. 



Mota: toga, to abide. Volow: tonga, id. Arag: dogo, to sit. 

 Sesake: toko, ndoko, id. Nifilole: togoli, id. Mosin: toga, 

 to abide; tog, to stay with. Fagani: 'oga, to stay. Pak: 

 'o, 'oga, to abide. Wango: 'o'a, to stay. Merlav, Lo: tog, 

 to abide. Gog: tog, to live at. Vuras, Marina : tog, to stay. 

 Maewo: tog, to sit; togana, togaana, a sitting. Norbarbar, Ugi : 

 to, to stay. Nggela : to, to sit. Retan : ta, to stay. Sesake : 

 to, ndo, to be, to abide, to sit. Ambrym: dro, dru, to abide; 

 ro, to sit, to stay, to remain. 



Malay, Java: dodok, duduk, to sit, to be. Malagasy: tuatra, id. 



Hebrew: takah, to sit, to remain. 



We find the word limited by Nuclear Polynesia and the direct migration 

 thence to New Zealand. 



