358 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Kubiri: utu, id. Pokau, Doura: uku, id. Kow.uhu, id. 

 Bululaha: u'u, id. Galoma: uu, id. Alite, Mekeo, Galoma : 

 u, id. Omba, Maewo, Mota: wutu, id. Merlav, Mota, Gog, 

 Lakon, Vuras, Mosin, Norbarbar: wut, id. Pak, Sasar, Alo 

 Teqel: wu, id. 



Malay, Java, Salayer, Menado, Bolanghitam, Sanguir, Gani, Lariko, 

 Gah, Baju: katu, the louse. Bouton: okutu, id. Sula: 

 kota, id. Mayapo, Massaratty : koto, id. Macassar: fettfo, id. 

 Ahtiago Alfuros: kutim, id. Teor: /m*, id. Morella, Mata- 

 bello: utu, id. Caimarian: utua, id. Wahai: utun, id. 



Mysot: w/, wit, id. 



Arabic: kurdw, the louse. 



Pediculus seems from the uniformity of the occurrence of this stem to 

 have been an ancestral possession of the Pacific races in their voyaging. 

 That other source of uneasiness, the flea, would appear a later acquisition, 

 since it is rather commonly described in kutu composites as the jumping 

 louse. In Efate the flea was unknown, the people say, until it was intro- 

 duced by white visitors. 



While the Melanesian forms show a wide range of variation, they may 

 readily be set forth in two series, according as they keep or lose fe-initial. 



i. kutu, gutu, ngotu; gut, get, git, kit. 

 2. utu, ote, uku, uhu, u'u, u. 



There remains a group of three forms characteristic of the northern 

 New Hebrides. This seems to involve, in its several forms wutu, wut, wu, 

 the k-w mutation which nowhere else appears nor is it exhibited in any 

 other Polynesian loan word in these languages except in the very doubtful 

 kusue (251) rat Lakon wohow. I incline to look upon this w as not at all 

 a fe-mutant, but rather as an accretion after the k has been dropped, a 

 hint that something has vanished. I have suggested the same in ika (300) 

 to account for the Javanese form. 



In Indonesia we find the same double series, with and without the k. 



The Arabic krd< contains two elements foreign to the Polynesian, of 

 which the protected r could not have been dropped arbitrarily. 



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 laba, to be much, many; laba, leba, lafulafu, to be or become or grow big; 

 leb, indeed, very; barab, baraf, barau, long, cf. barab, 121. 



Samoa: lava, to be enough, to complete, the whole, indeed, very. 

 Nukuoro: lava, enough. Nuguria: hulava, id. Rarotonga: 

 rava, much. Rapanui: rava, to be able, capable; hakarava, 

 to make large. Maori: rawa, numerous, many, quite, very, 

 at all. Hawaii: lawa, enough, a sufficiency. Niue: leva 

 (in o leva), very, quite. 



Viti : levu, great ; ndrawa, a thing that fills up. 



Mota: lava, greatly; liwoa, large. Sesake: lavulavu, very large. 

 Merlav, Gog : lav, large. Lo : lilav, large. Omba: law ua, id. 

 Arag: gaivua, id. Fagani: rafa, id. Wango: raha, id. 



Saa: laha, id. Deni: lebu, id. Mosin, Motlav: liwo, id. 



