430 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



King: voso, a paddle. Epi: voho, id. Laur, Lamassa: vos, id. 

 Malekula: bos, id. Suau: vosc, id. Mugula: wosi, id. Sariba: 

 w<m, wo.?e, woase, id. Pokau : i^cZe, id. Roro : bote, id. Mekeo : 

 poke, id. Kabadi: ode, id. Solomon Islands : jose, id. New 

 Ireland (Duffield) : j^w, id. Buka: /zo^c, id. Motu: Ziorfe, id. 

 Pala: udsa, id. Mota: wore, id. Awalama, Taupota, Wedau, 

 Galavi, Boniki : voe, id. Mukawa,Kubiri,Oiun: 6oc,id. Kiviri: 

 boi,id. ~Raq&: bol'e, id. Tanna: wa,id. Aneityum : ne-hev, id . 



Visayas: bugsai, paddle. Malay: dayung, id. Malagasy: /mu, id. 



Arabic : mikda}' , migda}', mihdaf , mikdaf, an oar. Amharic : makzaj, 

 id. Arabic: "aduf, id. 



The Proto-Samoan stem is fohe, as carried in Tonga and Niue, and oddly 

 seen in Mangareva ohe. 



There is a certain agreement in these forms which compares very well 

 with the truly remarkable showing of the material offered in item 280. 



In Melanesia we have most commonly the forms in s. The nearest to 

 the stem fohe is Solomon Islands fosc, Mota wose, Efate uose. A vowel 

 change in the unaccented final syllable is shown in King voso, Epi voho, at 

 widely separated points. The }-h mutation from jose yields Buka hosse, 

 and Motu hode shows still another change. Of the closed stem, an attri- 

 tion form, we have vos in Laur and Lamassa, and Duffield's unspecified 

 New Ireland vocabulary seems to draw from the same region for the form 

 fiss. Makekula yields us bos, and Efate uos. The Aneityum ne-hev is a 

 metathesis of some such attrition form, veh. This makes it within the 

 limit of possibility that Tanna vea may be included. 



I can see no plan whereby Visayas bugsai can account for its inner palatal 

 and therefore become identifiable, and the other Indonesian forms are 

 hopelessly remote. 



The Semitic offers no resemblance at all. 



364- 

 ura, lobster, prawn. 



Samoa: u la, lobster, prawn, shrimp, crayfish. Futuna: ida, lobster. 

 Rapanui, Nukuoro : ura, prawn, lobster. Mangareva : ura, cray- 

 fish. Maori: koura, id. Paumotu: cf. koranihi, prawn. 

 Marquesas: koua, crayfish. Tahiti: oura, prawn. Tonga: 

 uo, lobster. Niue: uo, crayfish. 



Viti: ura, prawn. 



Mota, Motu: ura, crayfish. Malekula: na-uru, id. Bierian: 

 ni-ua, id. Baki: Uo, id. 



Java: urang, crayfish. Malagasy: urana, id. (uranurana, eating 

 greedily). Malay: udang, crayfish. 



Hebrew: hawar, to be white, to become pale. Arabic: hara, to 

 be bleached, to eat greedily; hawar', haw, red leather. 



Nuclear Polynesia has the simple stem ula; the languages of the Tonga- 

 fiti migration have a composite koula, except that Mangareva has the 

 Proto-Samoan form. Niue and Tonga have a secondary form uo, not to 

 be considered the ordinary elision of the liquid, for both these languages 

 make free use of /; this secondarv form is discoverable in Bierian. 



