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The Efate tok violence is visible nowhere within the horizon of our studies, 

 and is suspicious in view of its positive resemblance to Hebrew tok violence. 



In Polynesia we find no variation from the axe signification except in 

 the Paumotu, which in many particulars represents a very primitive type 

 of the language. The Paumotu meanings make it possible to accept with- 

 out hesitation the Duke of York signification, which is not readily associable 

 with a hatchet sense. 



The second form in Mota totogag, of which ag is recognized as a verb 

 definitive suffix, yields us an abraded form tog, which undergoes yet further 

 abrasion into toto. The Aneityum etuko is, like most of the identifications 

 in that obscure speech, by no means distinctly established. 



We meet the stem but once in Indonesia, an abraded form as in Mota 

 and with a vowel change like that in Aneityum. 



The Arabic is a resemblance; more, however, to the eye than to the ear, 

 for when spoken the triliteral is at once apparent. 



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tuai, tuei, old, ancient, long ago, a long time hereafter; bakatuai, to pro- 

 long, to put off, to delay. 



Samoa: tuai, former, olden, to be a long time; tuatuai, somewhat 

 long, to delay; fa'atuai, to prolong, to put off, to defer, to 

 delay. Tonga: tuai, delay, procrastination, slow, dilatory, 

 to be long, to defer; fakatuai, fakatuotuai, to linger, to delay, 

 to defer, to procrastinate, to protract. Niue : tuai, old, ancient ; 

 fakatuai, slow. Uvea : tuai, to delay, to loiter. Nukuoro : 

 tuai, ancient. Aniwa, Vate: tuai, old. Rapanui: tuhai, 

 old, ancient. 



Eromanga: itetuai, of old; etuai, some time ago. Sesake: tuai, 

 formerly. Mota: tuai, old times. Bierian: tuai, long ago. 

 Malo: tuai, old. Malekula: tue, old. Aneityum: itu, old, 

 former. Baravon: kua, old. Pak: 'ue, id. 



Malay: tuwah, old. Java: tuwa, id. 



Arabic: 'adiyy', old, ancient. 



It seems that here we are dealing with a tua stem of which, with conditional 

 ma, matua (216) may be a derivative. That the stem really is tua, and i 

 but the definitive suffix, appears in the duplicated Tonga faka-tuotuai. 



In tracing the stem in Melanesia we find in Eromanga and Aneityum pre- 

 fixes of uncertain value. Most of the identifications in the western Pacific 

 maintain the full tuai form. Absence of the definitive suffix is found in 

 Baravon, if we accept the t-k mutation despite the fact that this is its only 

 appearance among eight cases of t found in our material, and in Malekula. 

 In this group belongs Pak 'ue, for it is characteristic of that tiny speech 

 to throw out t. The last stage of abrasion is found in Aneityum i-tu. 



The Indonesian identifications are scanty but valid. 



The Polynesian has a t in tuai; a Semitic word meaning old has been 

 found which has a d in it somewhere. Another link has been forged in the 

 chain of Semitic origins. 



