406 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



In Melanesia Efate" is of the silif-stem ; Mota, with vowel changes, derives 

 from the two stems suluf and sulum. 



In Indonesia the two identifications are clearly of sulu with its proper 

 final consonants abraded and passed from memory and then treated with 

 a formative termination of Indonesian habit. 



The Semitic must account for additional radical matter before we can 

 accept the partial resemblance. 



Where we have sulu and sili in parallel series we find it difficult to make 

 a plain separation of the shades of signification. The utmost upon which 

 we may venture is to note that the sense varies generally in relation to the 

 size of the thing which is thrust, sili denoting the smaller or finer-pointed, 

 this distinction being best seen in Samoa and Viti. 



342. 



sina, sine, to shine, to be clear. 



Sina, hina, ina, is used throughout Polynesia in the senses of 

 glistening, white, gray. 



Samoa, Futuna, Fakaafo, Sesake : masina, the moon. Tonga, Niue, 

 Uvea, Hawaii, Maori, Tahiti, Rapanui, Marquesas: mahina, id. 

 Mangareva: maina, id. Nuguria: masina, mahina, id. 



Viti: singa, the sun, day; thina, a torch, a lamp; singasingau, white. 



Fagani: sina, the sun. Misima: sinasina, id. Nada: silasila, id. 

 Misima: hilahila, id. Dobu: sinara, id. Wango: sina, id.; 

 haasinaria, to dry in the sun. Nggela: hina, to shine (sun); 

 hinari, to burn. Belaga: thina, sunshine. Mota: singa, to 

 shine; singasingai, a shining; singesinge loa, sunshine (loa, the 

 sun). Lambell: singsinge, to dry (presumably by putting 

 out in the sunlight, as in Wango). King: sengesenga, id. 

 Lamassa: sdngsdng, id. Merlav: sing, to shine ; singsinge aloa, 

 sunshine. Gog: sing, to shine; singsinge walo, sunshine. 

 Aneityum: gesega, the sun. Doura, Motu: dina, daylight, 

 the sun. Uni: Una, the sun. Mekeo: hina, id. Uni: dia, id. 



Malay: siyang, day, clear; sinar, a ray of light, luster; ber-sinar, 

 to shine; sinar-hulan, moonlight. Ilocan: sinamar, splen- 

 dor. Magindano : sinang, sun, midday. Java : rahina, day. 

 Sulu : jasina, the moon. 



Arabic: saha', sun, day, to shine, to be clear. Ethiopic: sahawa, id. 

 Hebrew: sahah, id. 



It is matter of no slight interest to find that a stem which in Polynesia 

 serves to designate the lesser luminary is used in Melanesia to denote the 

 sun. In this connection our linguistic material has left two records. One 

 that la, the general Polynesian word for the sun, was not carried in the 

 Proto-Samoan migration, for it has left no trace in the Melanesian halting- 

 places. The other that masina, the general Polynesian word for the moon, 

 was brought into Polynesian, in its present derivative form, by the Tonga- 

 fiti migration, for it is only in Sesake that we find masina as moon. Our 

 Polynesian records show us that sina was a sun name, i. e., the shiner. At 

 the same migration era the moon was also a shiner, see pupula 284. The 

 Tongafiti now comes to Nuclear Polynesia bringing la sun and masina moon, 



