348 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



298. 

 ngore, usu, ngusu, the nostrils, nose. 



Samoa: isu, nose, snout, bill. Futuna, Fakaafo, Aniwa, Manahiki : 

 isu, the nose. Nuguria: kaisu, id. Fotuna: eisu, id. Moiki: 

 ishu, id. Tonga, Niue, Uvea, Maori, Tahiti, Hawaii, Marquesas, 

 Mangareva, Paumotu, Rapanui, Tongarewa, Nukuoro: ihu, id. 

 Rarotonga: putaiu, id. Vate: tus, id. 

 Viti: uthu, nose. Rotuma: isu, id. 



Vaturanga, Suau, Sariba, Tubetube: isu, the nose. Mugula: 

 is'u, id. ~Roro : izu, id. Nggela, Bugotu: ihu, id. Sesake, 

 Epi: ngisu, id. Bierian: kinihu, id. Baki: sunu, id. Brumer 

 Island: ishuda, id. Maewo: Usui, id. Wango: barisu, id. 

 Roro, Kabadi: #«, id. Pokau: idu, id. Sinaugoro, Keapara: 

 i/w, id. Hula, Galoma, Rubi: iru, id. Raqa, Oiun: iu, id. 

 Awalama, Taupota, Mukawa: niu, id. Nggao: nehu, id. 

 Buka: wem, uies, osu, id. Ulawa, Bululaha: palusu, id. 



Saa: pwalusu, id. Fagani: barusu, id. Ambrym: gw/m, id. 

 Motu: wtfw, id. Aneityum: in-gidjin, id. 

 Gani: usnut, the nose. Malay: idung, id. Java: irung, id. 



Togean Islands: iri^w, id. Malagasy: uruna, id. 

 Hebrew: nhiraim, the nostrils. Syriac : nhiro', the nose. Arabic: 

 noh'rat, the aperture of the nose. 

 In the Efate the form ngore is not to be found in Polynesia nor is it con- 

 spicuous in our Melanesian material. It may be that it reappears in Alite 

 ngongora and Duke of York gigiro. 



The other words, usu and ngusu, serve as transition forms, usu pointing 

 to isu the nose in Polynesia and ngusu to ngutu the mouth, which is very 

 near, nearer yet when we bear in mind that ngutu the mouth is snout as 

 well and that isu the nose is snout too. We shall examine our material 

 first for the discrimination of the isu homogenetics. 



The Polynesian languages have isu firmly differentiated and this form 

 goes over into Rotuma. In the foregoing list Vate tus rests on Turner's col- 

 lation of two languages from Efate, Meli and Erakor, differing widely from 

 the unnamed language which Macdonald records, and not distinguished by 

 name in Turner's work. 



In Melanesia isu is found unmistakably in Vaturanga, Nggela, Bugotu, 

 Brumer Island, and probably Buka (wesu, uies). In Indonesia it is possible 

 that the Togean Island preserves it ; the Malay and Javanese are remote 

 and beyond proof. 



Next we shall correlate the usu forms, restricting these to such as have 

 u for the former vowel and are devoid of a consonantal modulant. This 

 is found in Efate, Viti, Buka (osu), and Motu udu. It is recalled by Gani 

 usnut, and perhaps by Malagasy. 



Efate identifies for us usu and ngusu. The latter is not common, Am- 

 brym guhu is the only affiliated form. More common is the wg-modulant 

 upon the isu stem: Sesake, Epi, ngisu; Bierian, ki-nihu; Nggao, nehu; 

 Baki, sunu (metathetic). 



We now encounter another group of forms, the Z-modulant upon the isu 

 and the usu stem. Simply it is Usui in Maewo. Beyond this point it does 



