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and the Proto-Samoan early colonists finding their earlier names not suffi- 

 ciently differentiated, for the root sense of shining is equally in use, adopt 

 the later forms. It is only in Niue that we find a persistent relic of the 

 older moon name, pupula the new moon. But Viti, untouched by the 

 Tongafiti swarm, preserves singa sun and vula moon. 



In Melanesia sina designates the sun, but there is not lacking evidence 

 that its root signification of shining is close to the surface. Thus in Nggela, 

 Mota, Merlav, and Gog hina does not denote the sun as a name but is used 

 of its shining, and in three of these instances the Melanesian word for sun, 

 alo, walo, aloa is subjoined. 



In Indonesia we find sina in the root sense of shining. Malay siyang is 

 not properly to be included, but sinar and its composites are unmistakable. 

 The Magindano sinang is the only instance outside of Melanesia in which 

 we encounter the sun sense. Java rahina seems to be a composite of ra 

 sun and sina to shine. 



The Semitic is, as so often in Dr. Macdonald's material, a one-letter 

 resemblance and valueless. 



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 sinu, sislnu, to be hot, to burn (of the grass on the hills yearly) ; slnu, the 

 burning of the grass, a place on which the grass has been burned ; 

 tuni, to heat; tunu, to heat, to oppress or make to suffer; 

 bitunu, bitin, bitsin, to be hot, painful; tutun, to light up 

 torches or the evening cooking fires. 

 (a)Futuna: masinu, the smell of burning fat (feathers, hair). 

 Hawaii: ohinu, to roast meat; ohinuhinu, to be parched and 

 dried, as the outside of roast meat. 

 Viti : cf. sinunganga, a tree whose sap has a burning effect on the skin. 

 (b) Samoa: susunu, to burn up; sununga, a burning; sunusunu, the 

 burnt bush where a plantation is made; masunu, to singe (as 

 the hairs of a pig) . Futuna : sunusunu, to singe a bird ; susunu, 

 to burn, to broil, to put on the fire; masunu, burnt by the sun, 

 the odor of burning hair or feathers. Tonga: huhunu, to 

 singe, to sear; hunuhunu, to toast, to singe, to broil; mahunu, 

 blighted. Niue : huhunu, to burn ; mahunu, to blister with heat. 

 Uvea : mahunu, a burning. Maori : hunu, to char, to singe. 

 Viti : kuro-susunu, the name of a disease, an epidemic, 

 (c) Samoa: tunu, to roast, to toast, to broil, to fry, to boil. Tonga: 

 tunu, to toast, to broil. Futuna: tunu, to broil, to roast, to 

 toast, to boil. Niue: tunu, to broil, to boil, to roast. Maori: 

 tunu, to roast, to broil, to burn. Tahiti: tunu, to roast, to 

 boil. Rarotonga: tunu, to broil, to cook on embers. Mar- 

 quesas, Rapanui, Nuguria, Nukuoro: tunu, to cook. Hawaii: 

 kunu, to roast on embers. Uvea: tutu, to toast. Fotuna: 

 tuna, to roast, to cook. 

 (d) Samoa: tutu, tungia, to set fire to, to kindle, to light (as a 

 lamp); tunga'i, to light up a fire at night. Tonga: tutu, to 

 burn, to set on fire; tungaki, to light a beacon; tungia, to set 

 on fire. Futuna : tutu, to light, to burn, to set fire to ; tungaki, 

 to light a beacon; tungia, to kindle, to set fire to. Niue: 



