380 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



applying an m-v mutation. Mota masag and Malekula Pangkumu mesek 

 are abraded forms. Aneityumme/^ is a further abrasion of mesek. Saadrops 

 all its k's; therefore we can restore matai to mataki, hut we have no instance 

 of s-t mutation in that language and perforce must deny ourselves this 

 identification. King miseit needs but the restoration of k to come into 

 agreement with Indonesian forms which have final t, Ilocan masaquit and 

 Malay sakit. Baravon mait by the same restoration comes into agreement 

 with Silong makit of the Tonganti stem. Furthermore New Britain maki 

 is the same as Kisa maki. These three forms may be ascribed to Post- 

 Polynesian intercourse with Indonesia. 



In form masaki sick is a conditional and implies a primal noun saki illness. 

 This saki is found perhaps in Maori hakihaki the itch, and then not in quite 

 the signification demanded ; again in the Malay with the same falling short 

 in sense. Thus we see that, while the Arabic with its s'akat and mas'ktiww' 

 offers a specious resemblance, it is after all a resemblance to something 

 which does not really exist in our island languages. 



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 mita, meta, bakamita, to look at, to watch, to observe, to view; mita na, 

 the eye, the beginning, a bud or shoot, a window or door or 

 other opening. 



Samoa: mata, matamata, to look at, to see, to view; mala, the eye, 

 the face, the point, the edge, a mesh, the source or origin. 

 Fakaafo, Moiki: mata, the eye. Nukuoro: mata, the eye; 



matakite, soothsayer; mata, the point; matakapupu, blunt; 

 matapunou, blunt; mata, the face, looks; matapaupau, ugly; 

 matatcnua, pretty; mata, any small thing; mataua, raindrops. 

 Tonga: mata, to be seen; mamata, to see; mata, the eye, the 

 face, the edge, a mesh. Futuna: mata, the eye, the face, the 

 point of a lance; mamata, matamata, to see, to look at, to view. 

 Niue: mata, mamata, to look at; mata, the eye, the face, an 

 edge, a blade, a point of land. Uvea: mata, the eye, the 

 face, a point; mata, matamata, to look like. Nuguria: mata, 

 the face, to see; anomota, the eye. Maori: mata, the eye, the 

 face, the edge, the point, the mesh; matamata, the point, 

 extremity, source, a headland. Manahiki: mata, the eye. 

 Tahiti: mata, the eye, the face, the beginning, the edge. Raro- 

 tonga: mata, the eye, the face, the beginning. Marquesas: 

 mata, the eye, the face. Mangareva : mata, the eye, physiog- 

 nomy, the front, the point. Paumotu: mata, the appearance 

 of a person. Rapanui: mata, the eye, face, visage, aspect. 

 Tongarewa: mata, the eye; matamata, beads. Fotuna, Aniwa 

 foimata, the eyes. Sikayana: karimata, the eye; lofimata, 

 the face. Hawaii: maka, the eye, the face, the point, the 

 edge, a bud. 



Viti: mata, the eye, the face, the front, the point, the source, the 

 origin. Rotuma: maf, the face; maja, eye. 



Vaturanga, Pala, Kiriwina, Nggela: mata, the face. New Georgia: 

 mata, isumata, the face. Southeast Epi, Bierian, Sesake, 



