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diversity is in the occurrence of »-forms in muka, mucha, muguing, mua, 

 and mut, this deviation not being found in the Pacific areas. 

 |# The 1 Semitic 'ana resembles mata only in the possession of two a's, not 

 at all a basis of association. 



325- 

 mot, motu, island, place, district; lit., that which is broken off. 



Samoa: motu, an islet, a district; motu, to be broken off, snapped 

 asunder, severed. Tonga: motu, an island. Futuna: motu, 

 an islet. Niue: motu, land, island, a country, (?) a clump of 

 forest. Uvea: motu, an island; motu, to cut off. Nuguria: 

 motu, an island, to break. Maori: motu, anything isolated, 

 as an island, a clump of trees. Tahiti: motu, a low islet. 

 Marquesas: motu, an island. Mangareva: motu, an elevated 

 island. Rapanui: motu, an island, to cut, to break. Raro- 

 tonga: motu, an island, a grove. Paumotu: motu-puhere, an 

 island. Fotuna: tanga-motu, forest; motu tangata, multitude. 

 Viti: Moturiki, name of an islet near Ovalau. 



Mota : motumotu, an island ; mot, bush, uncleared ground, land grown 



over with trees; motu, to break, as string; mot, to cut, to break, 



to stop short off. Duke of York: mutamuta, crumbs. 



Malay: put us, to break. Malagasy: maitu, broken asunder, 



snapped; maituitu, broken in pieces; utusana, being cut, broken, 



^ snapped. 



Arabic: makta', a place. (Deriving this from kata'a, to cut off, Dr. 

 MacDonald provides a common source for motu and koto-fi). 



The Proto-Samoan stem is motus. 



The island sense is particularly well marked in Polynesia, and the forest 

 sense is closely parallel. In Niue I have felt it right to query the forest 

 sense for the reason that it does not appear in the vocabulary, though it is 

 clearly inferential from PercySmith's sketch map of the island. In Viti the 

 word is found in one place name, Moturiki or little island, yet it is clearly 

 established since this is the only interpretation that the word can have. In 

 Melanesia it has not been recorded save in Efate and Mota. The Duke 

 of York mutamuta may be related, but it lacks confirmatory support. 



The Indonesian is uncertain. The Malay requires evidence to uphold the 

 m-p mutation. In the Malagasy it is quite unlikely that the composite 

 ma-itu can have anything to do with motu, and utusana calls for an explana- 

 tion of the abrasion of m-radical. 



In the Semitic if makta 1 stems in a kt< root it can have no relation with 

 motus. 



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 mu, fu, to coo as a dove. 



Samoa: mui, to murmur; mumu, words spoken in private conver- 

 sation; mumu, to be in swarms; langomumu, langofufu, the 

 carpenter bee; muna, to grumble; musumusu, to whisper. 

 Tonga: muhu, the sound as of persons talking together; muhu- 

 muhu, to speak quietly together; mumu, to collect together; 

 muna, to talk nonsense; langomu, a large fly. Futuna: mui, 

 to collect together; muna, to speak, to murmur; musu, to 



