384 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



whisper. Niue: mumu, to crowd, to make a noise; langofufu, 

 the carpenter wasp. Uvea: munamuna, to murmur. Maori: 

 mu, a gentle noise; mumu, to murmur, to hum; muna, to tell 

 privately. Tahiti: mu, a buzz; mumu, to make a confused 

 noise, as a number of persons talking together; langomumu, 

 the carpenter bee; omuhumuhu, to whisper to one's discredit. 

 Hawaii: tomtom, to hum. Mangaia: mu, to sigh. Marquesas: 

 mumu, a confused noise. Mangareva: amui, to assemble, as 

 flies. Paumotu : muhumuhu, a dull confused noise ; muhimuhi, 

 to murmur. Fotuna : mu, to buzz ; mumu, to whisper. Moiki : 

 muna, to speak, to say. Nukuoro : fatumuna, to lie ; munaputonu, 

 true; silengamuna, to interpret. Rapanui: huhu, buzzing. 

 Viti : mumu, to go in troops or swarms. 



Motu: mu, to coo. Loyalty Islands: mumu, the pitcher wasp. 

 Aneitvum: Hmu, to low (as cattle); ilmurilmu, to mumble. 

 New Britain: mukumuku, to whisper. Mota: mum, to make 

 an indistinct hum. 

 Nicobar Central: mumu, a dove. Malagasy: moimoy, a low mur- 

 mur, a hum; monomonona, a grumbling. 

 Hebrew: hamah, to coo, to hum (as a multitude). Arabic: 

 hamhamah, to murmur. 

 I have here collected the principal stems having raw-initial for purposes 

 of comparison. Connected with the mu of cooing there is a mu in Polynesia 

 and beyond, and it is with this that we shall concern ourselves. In Samoa 

 langomumu and langofufu it shows the same alternation as in Efate mu, fu. 

 This fu is found but once more, Niue langofufu. Tonga exhibits this ele- 

 mental mu only in the composite langomu. In Futuna this mu is absent; 

 for mux, which is the same in form as Samoa mui to murmur, is here formed 

 upon that mu to be a crowd which is found in Samoa, Tonga, and Niue 

 mumu, and which is probably the same in Mangareva amui. In Niue mumu 

 fails to observe the distinction between mu to buzz and mu to be a crowd. 

 Fotuna, Maori, Tahiti, Marquesas and Hawaii have preserved this mu, and 

 generally without duplication. 



Viti mumu is the mu to be a crowd. 



Motu has the same mu of sound, Aneityum ilmurilmu seems to be some 

 sort of a ww-composite, Mota mum is readily seen to be mu reduplicated 

 and then abraded. 



Nicobar mumu a dove may quite safely be identified with this mu of 

 sound. But in the Malagasy moimoy, although the sense is satisfactory, 

 the vowel anomaly is too great to be overcome ; and the monomonona could 

 be associated only with muna. 



The Semitic involves elements not present in our mu; in fact the only 

 point of form likeness is the m, and that is insufficient. 



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 muri na, the after part of a thing. 



Samoa, Futuna : muli, the end, hind part, bottom, rump, to follow 

 after. Uvea: muli, the end, the last, to follow. Nukuoro: 

 muli, after, behind, in future; mule, slow. Nuguria: muri, 

 aft. Rapanui: muri, the stern; i muri, hi muri, afterward, 



