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is found as maran in Mota and Merlav. It is quite plain that if maran is 

 to be associated with malamang at all, it can only be with the composition 

 element mala; this maran may be recognized in New Britain malana in its 

 full strength and, after abrasion, as a subduplication form in marara. From 

 maran the duplication of mar gives us Gog marmaran, yet side by side with 

 this we find in Merlav mamaraniga a duplication of ma and not mar. Tanna 

 mararen and Volow mereren require a peculiar duplication of ran. Motlav 

 mcmreren joins to this anomalous duplication of ran an equally irregular 

 duplication of ma. Kalil mdlau may derive from the abraded form of 

 maran. Nengone ncrene, if we may accept the initial m-n mutation, brings 

 us to a yet more archaic form of maran as an open stem marane, and that 

 the ne is radical is made manifest by the subduplicated nereneni. 



Kisa mala is in kinship with this maran. 



The Semitic Im' skeleton is alien. 



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misaki, masaki, to be sick, to be ill, to have fever ; misaki, misakia, sickness. 



Futuna: masaki, sick, illness. Tonga: mahaki, id.; mahamahaki, 

 feeble. Niue: mahaki, very great. Uvea: mahaki, sick, ill. 

 Maori: mahaki, a cutaneous disease. Marquesas: maki, a 

 wound. Rapanui: maki, a wound, plague. Mangaia : maki , 

 sick, sickness. Mangareva, Nuguria, Paumotu: maki, sick, 

 ill. Fotuna: maki, makinga, ill. Samoa: ma'i, sickness, 

 to be ill; very. Tahiti: mai, disease. Hawaii: mai, sickness in 

 general. Rapanui: mai, to be ill; a boil. 



Viti : mathake, specifically aphthae or thrush. 



Malekula Pangkumu: mcsek, sick, sickness. Epi: msaki, miei, id. 

 King: miseit, sick. Saa: mated, id. Nggela: vahagi, id. 

 New Britain: maki, makmak, matmat, id. Baravon: mail, id. 

 Aneityum: mehe, sick; masaki, leprosy. Mota: masag, ague. 



Ilocan: masaquit, sick. Silong: makit, id. Kisa: maki, dead. 

 Malay: sakit, sick. 



Arabic: s'aka' , to afflict one with a disease; s'akat,disease^,mas'kuw7v , , 

 afflicted with a disease. 



In Polynesia the line of demarcation between masaki and maki is the 

 classic division between the Proto-Samoan and the Tongafiti migrations, 

 masaki pertaining to the older stock. That Samoa has the Tongafiti form 

 need cause no surprise, for in Samoa the Proto-Samoans were held under 

 Tongafiti subjugation until the historic battle of Matamatame. Similarly 

 the presence of Proto-Samoan masaki in the Maori is but one more incident 

 of that direct migration from Nuclear Polynesia to New Zealand which we 

 have already isolated, and this reading is corroborated by the special use 

 of mahaki as the name of one disease in particular. We observe a like 

 particularization in Rapanui, Viti, Aneityum, and Mota. 



In Niue the expletive mahaki finds its parallel in Samoa in the same use 

 of ma'i. "A plague on both your houses." 



Efate preserves the true masaki form, and Epi (Bierian) msaki is but 

 slightly altered therefrom. Nggela vahagi would be reducible to masaki by 



