372 THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



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 manu, a bird. 



Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Mangareva, Rarotonga, Mangaia: manu, 

 birds and animals in general. Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Fotuna, 

 Bukabuka : manu, animals. Maori, Hawaii, Nnguria, Rapanui, 

 Marquesas, Tongarewa : manu, birds. Paumotu: manu, birds; 

 manumanu, animals, insects. 



Viti: manumanu, birds and animals. Rotuma: manman, birds. 



New Ireland (Carteret Harbor) : manuk, bird. Tanna: manug, id. 

 Motu, Sesake, Epi, Bierian, Maewo, Mota, Ulawa, Wango, 

 Bululaha, Fagani, Saa, Arag, Omba, Vaturanga, Bugotu, Nggela, 

 Nguna, Ruavatu, Ugi, Belaga, Pokau, Kabadi, Sinaugoro, 

 Hula, Keapara, Galoma, Rubi, Suau, Nada, Awalama, Taupota, 

 Mukawa, Wedau: manu, id. Uni: manumanu, id. Lambell, 

 Lamassa, Tubetube, New Ireland (Carteret Harbor): mani, id. 

 Kiriwina, Dobu: manua, id. Moanus: manual, id. Merlav, 

 Mota, Norbarbar, Gog, Vuras, Mosin, Tubetube, Murua, Pala, 

 Laur: man, id. Brierly Island: maan, id. Aneityum: 



in-man, id. Makura:na-waw,id. Eromanga: menok, id. Baki, 

 West Epi: menu, id. Pak, Motlav, Norbarbar, Sasar, Volow: 

 men, id. Malekula: ni-min, id. Vanua Lava, Lo, Alo Teqel, 

 Retan: mow, id. Alite: malu, id. Marina :nanu, id. Kubiri, 

 Raqa, Oiun: mamu, id. Lakon: mah, id. Tagula : ma, id. 



Malay, Sulu, Visayas: manuk, bird. Guaham: manug, id. vSavu, 

 Kisa, Menado, Sanguir, Sula, Morella, Caimarian, Baju, Sali- 

 babo: manu, id. Togean Islands: manu, the domestic fowl 

 (tonji, bird). Bouton: manumanu, bird. Amblaw, Awaiya: 

 manue, id. Cajeli: manui, id. Mayapo: manuti, id. Teluti: 

 manuo, id. Ahtiago: manuwan, id. Kayan, Magindano, 

 Matu, Gah, Matabello, Teor: manok, id. Bolanghitam: 



manoko, id. Saparua, Lariko, Liang, Batumerah: raawo, id. 

 Gani : manik, id. Waigiou Alfuros : mani, id. Dyak : monok, id. 

 Wahai: malok, id. Malay: burung, id. Malagasy : vuruna, id. 

 Hebrew: />arafr, to fly. Syriac: parah, id.; par oh to, birds. Arabic: 

 farhu, young of birds. Hebrew: efroah, id. 



Several of the early missionaries comment with a fine sense of humor upon 

 the mistake the islanders made in calling the cow when first seen a bird. 

 This is the word which led the good missionaries into the error of their own 

 ignorance. 



Manu is as wholesale in its signification as our word animal, it is generic. 

 In the paucity of brute mammalia the first missionaries found this general 

 term most frequently used of birds, and it was their and not a Polynesian 

 mistake to translate manu into bird. In the material here collected it will 

 be seen that the significations animal and bird are widely extended. In 

 the Paumotu insects are included ; the same is true of Mota, where manu 

 signifies beetle as well as bird. Nor is its applicability restricted to earth 

 and air; it reaches into the sea as well. Samoa uses i l amanu (fish-animal) 

 for the whale, and see note 130 for a discussion of manu in the fish sense. 

 Lakon mah means bird and fish. If this stood by itself we might accept it 



