368 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



Epi (Bierian) : ma, id. Aneityum: ni-jman, ni-kman, id. 



Tanna: neVlimiin), id. Santo Wulua: lemantra, id. 



Macassar, Champa, Sulu: lima, hand, arm. Kisa: liman, id. 



Cajeli: limamo, id. Morella: limaka, id. Batumerah: 



limawah, id. Magindano: alima, id. Bouton: olima, id. 



Teor: limin, id. Bolanghitam: rima, id. Liang: rimak, id. 



Menado: rilma, id. 

 Arabic : alh'ams, the fingers. 

 Most of the form varieties here presented have received consideration 

 in the preceding item. Note should be made of the fact that the meaning 

 includes the whole member from fingertip to shoulder, along the inner 

 aspect as far as the axilla. Two forms, sima and yima, assigned to Epi 

 without particularization of dialect, are entirely anomalous, yet their der- 

 ivation from lima is not to be doubted. Santo Wulua lema-ntra introduces 

 an unexplained element ; the same is true of the Tanna composite and of 

 the bralima of Carteret Harbor in New Ireland. 



3H- 

 lolofa, lulum, lumu, to be wet, moistened ; Iuma, to sink, to dip. 



Samoa: lolo, lofia, to flood, to overflow; lolo, to be wet (as the 

 clothes). Tonga : lolo, to rain in torrents; lomaki, flood, deluge. 

 Futuna : lofia, inundated, submerged, inundation ; lomaki, deluge, 

 inundation. Niue: lofia, overflowed. Uvea: lolo, to flow; 

 lovai, deluge; lomaki, id. Maori: roma, a stream; rumaki, 

 to duck in the water. Hawaii : lu, to dive or plunge in the 

 water; lama, lumai, to put to death by putting the head under 

 water. Mangareva: akarumakimaki, to dive often, to inun- 

 date. Paumotu : rumaki, to sink in the water. 

 Viti : luvu, to sink in the water, to drown ; luvutha, to flood, to over- 

 flow; luvuraka, to put under the water, to press a thing down 

 under the water; ndrondro, a current, chiefly of the sea. 

 Raluana : lowon, a stream ; lolonga, to flow. Duke of York : lomon, 



a flood. Kiviri: loloro, a. river. 

 Malagasy: rubuka, plunged, dipped, soaked. 



Hebrew: seba', to dip into; 'istaba', to be wet, moistened. Arabic, 

 Chaklee, id. 

 We find two stems, lof and lom, each showing a tendency to vowel shift 

 and appearing as luf, lum. 



The common factor is lo or lu, the common signification of water and a 

 motion, one of water in motion, the other of motion into water. These 

 senses are not restrictive in the languages which have both stems, and we 

 are not warranted in suggesting more than that there may have been a 

 distinctive value to each of the terminal consonant modulants, but that 

 in the drift along the ages and across the seas the distinction has in some 

 places become obscured. 



Stem lof. This is found in Efate, Samoa, Futuna, Uvea, Niue, Raluana, 

 with the o-radical. This is accordingly seen to be Nuclear Polynesian ; 

 the omission of Tonga from the habitat of this stem is due to the fact that 

 our dictionary authority affords no instance which distinctly proves a lof 

 form, yet Tonga records lolo, which in Samoa is seen to belong to lof. 



