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Mota: tano, ground; tanu, to bury with earth. Maewo, Nguna: 

 tano, ground. Malo: tanomia, to bury. Kabadi: kano, 

 land. Deni: ndano, ground. Saa: 'ano, id. Tanna: tana, 

 land; (t)anum, to bury. Tarawa: tan, id. Ambrym: tan, 

 ground. Aneityum: in-tan, id. Lo: ten, id. Laur, Lambell, 

 Lamassa: tun, a grave. King: nutun, id. 



Malay: tanam, tanuman, to bury, to inter, to plant. Basakrama: 

 tanam, id. Malay: tanah, land. 



Arabic: tana, to cover with clay; tino, tano, earth, clay. 



After defining tanumi and tan as burial with a covering of earth Dr. 

 Macdonald says boldly "hence" and proceeds to join therewith tano-tan, 

 earth, soil, ground. 



We have clearly two distinct stems mingled here. 



That which means the ground does not at all appear in Polynesia. In 

 Melanesia it is tano, ndano, kano, 'ano, tana, tan, ten. In Indonesia we find 

 Malay tanah land. With this stem the Arabic certainly has an identity of 

 form and of sense. 



The stem signifying to bury is in the Proto-Samoan tanum, and the radi- 

 cal m holds in Polynesia almost without exception when under the protec- 

 tion of a succeeding vowel. This radical m is found in two instances in 

 Melanesia and it persists in Indonesia. The stem in use in Polynesia is 

 tanu, but in Tonga and Uvea tano is found along with tanu. Similarly 

 in Malo we find tano, but with the radical m to fix the word. It would seem, 

 therefore, that in these instances abraded tanum and tano have been con- 

 fused. The Efate tun to bury is confirmatory of the New Ireland grave 

 words tun and nutun. With the tanum stem the Semitic proposed is in 

 no great accord. 



This word has been exhaustively examined in the inner record of its 

 structure in my paper on root reducibility (27 American Journal of Phi- 

 lology, 383). 



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tau, a season, time, year. 



Samoa : tau, a season, a year; tausanga, a season, a year of six months. 

 Tonga: ta l u, a season, a crop, a year; ta'ube, annual. Futuna: 

 tau, season for planting and particularly for yams. Uvea: tau, 

 era; tau, year. Niue: tau, a year, a season. Maori: tau, a 

 year. Tahiti, Rarotonga: tau, a season. Marquesas: tau, 

 a year (of ten months). Rapanui: tau, a year, a season. 

 Mangareva : tau, a year, the season of the breadfruit. Paumotu : 

 tau, a season, a period. Nukuoro : tau, ngatau, a year. Aniwa : 

 tou, a year. Hawaii: kau, a season, the summer or warm 

 season, a lifetime. 



Mota: tau, a season. New Britain: taun, a year. 



Java, Sulu: tahun, a year. Matu: ta'un, id. Ilocan: taoen, id. 

 Tagalog: taon, id. Bugi: ta ung, id. Macassar: taoeng, id. 

 Malagasy: taona, a year, a time, a season. 



Arabic: zaman, a year. Syriac: ziban, id. Modern Syriac: 

 zona, id. 



