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Malay: sampan, a small boat. Malagasy: sambu, a ship. 

 Arabic: safinat, safin', a ship, a vessel. Hebrew, Syriac: sefina, id. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is hama, which appears in Polynesia as ama, 

 sama, hama, thama. 



In Melanesia we find sama, hama and ame. The h-ts mutation in Tangoan 

 Santo appears in Polynesia itself. The h-t mutation in timen is not else- 

 where recorded from Tanna, but a glance at the table will show it to be 

 not unusual in other parts of the Melanesian area. The same is to be said 

 of Malekula jam, and this leads readily to Aneityum jmaing. The Torres 

 Straits sarima and devolution forms lie outside the possibility of cordial 

 acceptance. 



The Indonesian identifications which Dr. Macdonald presents depend for 

 their force upon the actual employment of an outrigger. This is not the 

 common naval architecture of the sampan ; it is quite out of the question 

 in the Malagasy. 



The value of the Semitic lies in the establishment of so small a part for 

 so great a whole. Even were that acceptable the Semitic has a resemblance 

 in but a single consonant. 



34i- 



sili, to enter; sili-fi a, to enter into (as a spirit or [demon into a man); 



sili-faki, sili-fiki, to make to enter into, to thrust or throw into. 



Samoa : sulu, to thrust into, to plunge into (as a canoe into waves), 



to take refuge in; sulufa'i, fesulua'i, fesuluna'i, to take refuge 



with; suluma'i, to thrust or push through or into. Tonga: 



hulu, to plunge, to push, to rush under water as a canoe in a 



heavy sea; hulumaki, to push in or through. Futuna: sulu, 



to put or place within, to thrust into. Niue: huhulu, to 



thrust, to push. Nukuoro: sulu, suru, to dive. Fotuna: 



sum, to dive, to swim under water. 



vSamoa: sili, to lodge in, to stick in (as a pen behind the ear); 



silinga, a penholder, the place to stick in the fish hook; sisili, 



to shoot, to dart (as pain from one part of the body to another) . 



Tonga : hili, hilifaki, to lay or put upon ; hilinga, a number of 



spears tied together, a platform on which things are laid. Niue : 



hilifaki, to stick in. 



Viti : thuruma, to enter; thurumaka, to push a thing into or through. 



thiliva, to cut or lance the body. 

 Mota: saro, to go in; saromag, sarovag, to sheathe. 

 Malay: julok, to thrust into. Malagasy: juluka, to enter. 

 Arabic: dahala, duh'uV, to enter (a house), to take refuge with, to 

 thrust in. 

 In form our Polynesian material preserves two distinct series, that in u 

 and that in i, but the consonant skeleton is the same and the significations 

 interlace. We are justified, therefore, in dealing with them, at least pro- 

 visionally, as homogenetic. Both series are confined to Nuclear Polynesia. 

 For the sulu series we find Proto-Samoan stems suluf, sulum, sulun. 

 For the sili series we find a Proto-Samoan stem silif. 

 Viti has both series as derivatives of sulum and silif. 



