412 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



The root ta I have already (27 American Journal of Philology, 383, 386) 

 treated by dissection to the seed and consonantal coefficient, and have 

 developed the suggestion that ' ' the root ta through its long series of known 

 combinations carries a strongly featured sense of action that is peripheral, 

 centrifugal, and there seems to be at least a suspicion of the further conno- 

 tation that the action is exerted downward." Thus in most of our Poly- 

 nesian occurrences of the simple root and in two out of the three Melanesian 

 identifications we find the primal sense to strike. The secondary sense of 

 cutting will easily be seen to be a striking with a specialized implement, 

 and we find this sense stated without recognition of the primal striking 

 only in Mangareva, Nukuoro, Viti, and Malekula. 



In Indonesia this secondary sense is predominant, although Malagasy ta 

 may come somewhat close to the striking idea. 



The Semitic is far too complex, hdd, to stand in kinship with the sim- 

 plicity of our ta. 



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tangi, to wail, to cry, to ring, to sing, to clank, to hum ; tangi-si, to bewail. 



Samoa: tangi, to chirp, to bellow, to roar, to wail, to lament, to 

 weep, to chant a poem, to complain ; tatangi, to tinkle, to ring. 

 Tonga: tangi, to cry, to weep, to call out; tatangi, to ring, to 

 tinkle; taangi, to chant a poem. Futuna: tangi, to weep, 

 to groan, the cry of any animal, the sound of any implement. 

 Niue : tangi, to weep, to cry. Uvea : tangi, to weep, to shed 

 tears, to howl, the cry of animals, to appeal to. Maori : tangi, 

 to cry, to sound, to coo, to roar, to weep, to wail; tatangi, to 

 rattle, to jingle; takitaki, to recite a song. Mangaia: tangi, 

 to sound, to cry, to sing, to wail, to weep, to lament. Manga- 

 reva : tangi, to mourn, to wail, to weep, to sing, to make a noise, 

 the sound of a bell or of a trumpet. Rapanui : tangi, to cry, 

 to howl, to groan, to weep, to pity, to covet. Paumotu: 

 tangi, tatangi, to weep, to bewail, to lament. Tongarewa, 

 Nukuoro, Manahiki, Fakaafo: tangi, to cry. Aniwa: noko- 

 tangi, id. Vate: tetangi, id. Nuguria: hakatani, to bewail. 

 Marquesas: tani, taki, to sound, to sing, to bark. Tahiti: 

 tai, to sound (as an instrument), to weep, to cry; tatai, to 

 rehearse or recapitulate the particulars of an agreement. 

 Hawaii: kani, to make a sound more or less musical, to hum 

 a tune, to sound (as a trumpet), to make a report (as a gun), 

 to crack (as a whip), to rumble (as thunder), to squeak, to 

 crow; kanikani, to tinkle. 



Viti: tangi, to cry, to weep aloud, to lament, to crow, to sing. 



Nguna: tangi, to weep. Omba: tangi, to cry; tangisi, to cry for 

 someone. Nggela: tangi, tangihia, to lament; tangitangi, to 

 sing (of birds) . Vaturanga : tangi, to weep ; tangisia, to weep 

 for. Bugotu : tangi, to weep ; tangihia, to weep for. Nggao : 

 tangi, to weep. Matupit: tangi, to cry. Baravon: tangi, 

 to weep. Belaga: tangi, sounding (of a bell). Lambell: 

 tangis, a tear. Maewo: tangtangisa, pitiful; tangtangisi, to 



