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to know, to apprehend. Aniwa : jakarongo, to hear. Fotuna: 

 no-rongona, to hear. Paumotu: rongo, to hear; fakarongo, to 

 cause to believe. Rapanui: rongo, to hear, to believe, to 

 comprehend, to understand; hakarongo, attention, to adhere, 

 to hear, to comprehend, to understand. Tonga: ongo, to 

 hear, to feel; ongoongo, to report; fakaongo, to hearken, to 

 await commands; longona, to inform, to report. Marquesas: 

 ono, oko, to listen, to understand; hakaono, to listen. 

 Viti: rongo, to hear, to be heard, to sound, a report, tidings; vaka- 



rorongo, to listen, to obey. 

 New Britain : logor, to hear, to report. Lambell : longor, to hear. 

 King: longor 6, id. Duke of York: longor o, id. Baravon: 

 walongore, id. Raluana: ivalongore,7valawalongor, id. Bierian: 

 mlongo, id. Mekeo: longo, to hear, to know. Tagula: ilongwe, 

 to hear; kau-lungwe, to know. Nguna, Arag, Sesake: rongo, 

 to hear. Maewo: rongo, to believe. Omba: rongo, to feel 

 any sensation. Vaturanga : rongo, to feel a sensation. Malo : 

 rongo, to hear. Nggela: rongorongo, news; vaovarongo, the 

 hearers; rongovia, to hear. Vaturanga: rongovia, rongomi, to 

 hear, to listen to. Mukawa : nonora, to hear, to know. Tavara, 

 Wedau: nonori, id. Awalama, Taupota: nonori, to hear. 

 Oiun: nowara, id. Raqa: anoara, id. Kabadi: oonova, id. 

 Roro: ona, id. Uni: abai-oa, id. Nggao: rongi, to under- 

 stand. Volow: rong, to hear. Sesake: ndongo, to smell. 

 Omba : ronghogosi, to listen ; rorongtagi, to hear a sound. Arag : 

 rorongtai, to listen to. Marina, Mota: rogotag, to hear. Gog: 

 rongtag, id. Ambrym, Retan: rongta, to hear, to feel. Motlav, 

 Vuras: rongteg, to hear. Mosin: rongte, id. Norbarbar: 



rongte, to feel. Lo: rongte, to hear, to feel. Santo: ronoa, 

 to hear. Maewo: roro, roroi, rore, a report. Mota: roro-i, 

 a report ; ronga, famous ; rongo, to apprehend by the senses, to 

 feel, hear, smell, taste. Baki: mjongi, to hear. 

 Java: rungu, to hear. Matu: langan, sound, noise. Malay: 

 dangar, to hear. Malagasy: rohona, a sound, as of thunder. 

 Arabic: 'adina, to hear, to know, to feel the smell of, to cause to 

 hear, to make known. Hebrew: 'azan, he'zin, to hear, to 

 listen, to obey. 

 In the Polynesian at least three senses are entangled in the stem longo, 

 to hear, a thing heard, and to preserve silence. The latter, fa'alolongo, 

 falls easily into place, for it is a composite with the fa'a of comparison, to be 

 as one listening, therefore to be silent, "be silent that ye may hear." We 

 find at least two Polynesian closed stems, longon of the sense perception 

 and longos of the production of a sound that may be heard. The latter 

 seems to appear in the Viti rongotha but with the longon sense to hear, the 

 former in Tonga longona but with the longos sense to report. Beyond these 

 two inverted instances the closed stems have left no definite record. 



In the examination of this material we shall confine ourselves to so 

 much thereof as finds identification in our Melanesian records, namely, the 

 matter of sense perception. 



