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Aneityum: inlag, id. Murray Island: narger, id. Solomon 

 Islands: lau-au, id. Pokau: lalo-maka, id. Motu:/ao, id. 

 Doura : lao-maka, id. Mekeo : angu-ma, id. Roro : au-maha, id. 

 Kabadi: ao-kama, id. Panaieti: nagunagu, id. Nada: 



nigunagu, id . Murua : niga u-wari, id . Kiriwina : nigonagula, id . 

 Dobu: nene-wara, id. 

 Kayan, Sanguir: lango, a fly. Pampangas: lango, id. Menado, 

 Bolanghitam: raingo, id. Baju: langow, id. North Borneo : 

 lalangou, id. Tagalog: langau, id. Dyak: lengeau, id. 



Malay: langau, a large fly, a bluebottle. 

 Arabic: lakka'u, a fly. 

 With the exception of the /-w- mutation in Nukuoro and the plain meta- 

 thesis in Hawaii we encounter nothing calling for note until we have 

 advanced a considerable step into the Melanesian area. By far the greater 

 part of this western region falls somewhere along the regular series of 

 progression downward: lango, rango, lang, leng, loo, lag, rag. 



Bugotu thango is unique, yet the sense and resemblance may be counted 

 on to carry the unusual l-th mutation. The same may be remarked of 

 the prosthetic g in Nggao glango. Nengone nengo and probably Murray 

 Island narger are carried in the company of Nukuoro nango, the /-n mutation 

 appearing in no less than five Polynesian languages, and in Melanesia 

 several times recurring in lima (313). The Epi forms are out of step, for 

 Bierian without explanation acquires an initial vowel alago, and Baki jago 

 presents an /-;' mutation which is supported only by lingi (154) to pour 

 Aneityum aijangjing, and lima (312) five Epi jimo Aneityum ni-jman. 

 Motu lao, as is a by no means uncommon accord between these two widely 

 separated languages, is Tahiti rao. The dropping of the / in Guadalcanar 

 ango appears nowhere else in the life-history of the word; the form is 

 recorded by Tregear without statement of its source; it is clearly from 

 a speech other than Vaturanga. The same author preserves the Solomon 

 Island lau-au, but with no record of what one of the many languages of 

 that archipelago employs it ; there is such a resemblance to Malay and Dyak 

 forms that I have little hesitation in assigning it to the Post- Polynesian 

 period. 



The Indonesian forms exhibit the usual local peculiarities in dealing 

 with loan material, but the sense is plain. 



The Arabic most resembles the Indonesian, differing therefrom most 

 markedly in the intrusion of a palatal between a and win the final syllable, 

 and this is the point where the Indonesian forms least resemble the Proto- 

 Samoan. We shall, therefore, have to regard the Semitic as yet farther 

 removed from suggestion of a common origin with the Polynesian and 

 Melanesian stem. 



310. 



lau, kalau, kolau, kalai, a spiderweb. 



Samoa: apungaleveleve, apongaleveleve, a spider, a web. Tonga: 



kaleveleve, a large spider. Futuna : kaleveleve, a spider, a web. 



Niue: kaleveleve, a cobweb. Nukuoro: halaneveneve, a spider. 

 Uvea: kavelevele, a spider. Mangareva: pungaverevere, a spider. 



Paumotu: pungaverevere, cloth. Mangaia: pungaverevere, a 



