426 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



to drop into the eye or into a wound; tulu, tulutulu, to drip; 



tulutulu, the eaves. Nukuoro : turuturu, to fall in drops : haka- 



tulu, to pour out. Fotuna: turn, to leak, to drip. Maori: 



tuturu, to leak, to drip; maturuturu, to fall in drops, to distil. 



Rapanui: turu, to flow, to drip. Tahiti: tuturu, to drop, as 



rain from a roof. Hawaii: kulu, a drop, to drop, to leak. 

 Viti : turu, the eaves ; turu, tuturu, tin, titiri, a drop, to drop ; turuva, 



tiriva, to drop upon. 

 Motu: hetuturu, to drop (as water). Malekula: turitur, to leak, 



to drip. Malo: tuture, id. Baki : mbari-drudruli, id. Mota: 



tir, to drip, to drop. 

 Malay: jurus, to water, to irrigate. 

 Arabic : s'alla, to sew, to shed tears ; s'als'ala, to drip, to fall in drops ; 



was'ala, to drip, to drop, to leak out. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is tulu. 



This is well established by the recurrence of tului in which the verb- 

 formative * is, as always, added to the stem and avails to preserve a final 

 radical consonant if the stem is a closed one. This leaves the v in Viti 

 turuva, tiriva, non-radical but to be explained in the constructive local 

 usage of that speech. 



The vowel change u-i, found slightly in 358, here occurs in Viti, Efate,and 

 Mota. A similar change affecting the weak unaccented final vowel gives 

 us a turi stem in Malekula, ture in Malo, and the Baki composite is tuli 

 with a reinforcement of the initial mute. In Efate tirikit, tiri compounds 

 with kit (149) small. 



The Malay jurus, accepting the common t-j mutation and assuming that 

 the final .y has the appropriate construction value, suggests kinship with 

 turu; but we can not definitely accept the identification on such slight data 

 as against the considerable variation in sense. 



The Semitic and the island tongues have an / in common, far too little 

 on which to build an argument. 



360. 



ua, ueti, boua, fruit. 



Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Fotuna, Moiki : fua, fruit. Sika- 

 yana: fua, an egg. Nuguria: hua, fruit, egg; te hua te rakau, 

 blossom. Maori, Hawaii, Nukuoro: hua, fruit. Aniwa: 

 no-hua, id. Rapanui: huaa, fruit, to bloom, to blossom. 

 Rarotonga: ua, id. 



Viti: vua, fruit. Rotuma: hue, id. 



Moanus: mbua, fruit. Eromanga: buwa, id. Uni, Pokau: vua, id. 

 Alite, Nggela : vuavua, id. Pokau: vuavua, flower. Kabadi: 

 ovaovana, id. Rubi: o-wuawua, id. Vaturanga: vuvua, fruit. 

 Baravon : vuei, to bear fruit. New Britain : vue, id. ! '.Mekeo : 

 pua, fruit. Hula, Keapara, Galoma : hua, id. Roro: buana, id. 

 Rubi: guagua, id. Fagani: fua, id. Ulawa, Saa, Wango, 

 Doura, Bululaha: hua, id. Motu: huahua, id. Aneityum: 

 howa, id. Buka: hoa, id. Dobu, Taupota, Kubiri, Galavi: 

 ua, id. Suau: uaua, id. Mukawa: uwa, id. Taupota, 



