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 rau, leaves (for food to be cooked, and for putting food on, as on a plate, 

 when cooked). 



Samoa : lau, a leaf ; lalau, to be in leaf ; laulau, a food tray plaited 

 from a coconut leaf, to set out food on such a tray or on a 

 table. Tonga: lau, lou, a leaf; laulau, a tray. Futuna, 

 Uvea, Nuguria: lau, a leaf. Niue: lau, a leaf; laulau, a table. 

 Hawaii : lau, a leaf ; laulau, the netting in which food is carried. 

 Maori, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Rapanui, Paumotu, Nukuoro, Fotuna: 

 rau, a leaf . Manga re va: rau, rou, id. Marquesas: au, ou, id. 



Viti: ndrau, a leaf; rau, thatch, coconut leaves shaken in the water 

 to drive fish into the net. Rotuma: rau, a leaf. 



Sesake, Sinaugoro, Hula, Keapara, Galoma : lau, a leaf. Makura : 

 lau, aplant. Moanus : laun- (always composite), a leaf. Marina, 

 Arag, Vaturanga, Nggela, Motu, Waima: rau, id. Natalava: 

 tharau, id. Aneityum: in-rau, a covering, a preparing of 

 food for a feast; in-raurau, coconut leaves for a net. Malo, 

 Roro, Kabadi: rauna, a leaf. Wango: raua, id. Mukawa: 

 raurau, id. Vaturanga: rarau, id. Malekula: raun, id. 

 Lakon: drawi, id. Mota: naui, id. Maewo: ndoui. Merlav, 

 Vuras : ndoi. Lo : hoi. Vuras, Gog : ndo. Duke of York : 

 dono. Mosin : no. Mota : nau, no, id. Mekeo : ngangaunga, id. 

 Motlav: ron. Volow: raren, ro. Nengone: ru. Deni: 

 leu. Guadalcanar : talu. Omba : raugi. Norbarbar : ndugi. 

 Pak, Sasar, Alo Teqel : togi. 



Savu: rau, a leaf. Java: rou, id. Malagasy: ravina, id. Saparua: 

 laun, id. Baliyon, Baju: daun, id. Malay: daun, dawun, id. 

 Sulu: dahun, id. 



Arabic: hadab', branches, leaves; hadiba, hadaba, to pluck, to have 

 long eyelashes, to have long branches. 



In Efate rau- does not have the simple leaf sense, but the meaning of leaf 

 tray is found in Samoa, Tonga and Niue of Nuclear Polynesia, and in 

 Hawaii. Here it is accompanied with the meaning of leaf, and that is the 

 only signification in the Tonga fiti languages. That Hawaii laulau, if not 

 the food mat, is at least different from leaf and has to do with food is to 

 be attributed to that direct A^oyage from Nuclear Polynesia for which we 

 have gathered so many pieces of evidence. That Futuna and Uvea, though 

 geographically in Nuclear Polynesia, have not the food-tray signification is 

 a point to be considered with other evidence as tending to show that the 

 settlement of these two islands in such close proximity was principally 

 Tongafiti. 



The Samoan lalau by its preduplication shows lau to be considered a com- 

 posite, la-u. The latter member we may not presume to identify, but the 

 former has a suggestive resemblance to la, lala, a branch, also a botanical 

 term. We note in Tonga, Mangareva, and the Marquesas alternative forms 

 with the vowel o. The fact of two forms in Viti of different sense points 

 to two distinct sources. The ndrau leaf is derived from a stem rau having 

 the r grasseye ; rau is derived from rau of the lighter r. This suggests that 



