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THE POLYNESIAN WANDERINGS. 



312. 



Not one of these forms fails of recurrence in Polynesia itself except nim, 

 and the Polynesian intolerance of closed syllables precludes that. In this 

 added material we note the following instances where the five word and 

 the hand word diverge : 



313- 



In Kiriwina ia-mila the metathetic form, of the 3214 type, has the same 

 prefix ia as in ia-gila in item 308 where also it is associated with a meta- 

 thetic form. 



316. 



Mukawa and Kubiri exhibit the stem as melu, which reappears in Santo, 

 Lo, and Volow. They differ slightly in their treatment of it, Mukawa con- 

 duplicating, Kubiri preduplicating the stem. The syllable na may have 

 locally a formative function, or it may represent the final m of the stem. 



317- 

 The word remains almost without change in this area until we reach the 

 tnamu form in three languages neighboring in a single bay. The n-ra muta- 

 tion has been observed but once, in the New Georgia and Nggao forms in 

 item 351. Tagula ma has lost distinctive form, yet it is reasonable to 

 associate it with manu as a product of excessive degradation. 



321. 

 There are two distinct loan series in this area. The one borrows the 

 form inu and subjects it to no change greater than the suffixation of local 

 formative elements. The metathesis in Hula is patent, 2 1 3 type. The Uni 

 bibinu is clearly a preduplication of binu, but we have no other example of a 

 prefix to this stem. It would undoubtedly have served Judge Fornander 

 as a link between Polynesian and Greek. It should, however, be noted 

 that similar preface consonants have elsewhere been noted in New Guinea 

 despite their anomaly in Polynesian. The second loan series is based upon 

 the stem inum with a consistent sacrifice of the former vowel. This series 

 runs clear from numa to nom; then with a further frontal abrasion we have 

 the series from uma to im, and probably Kiriwina mum adjusts itself there- 

 with. Then with a preface / it is possible that we can trace yet another 

 series in tanuma, toman by metathesis, toma and torn. Murua amomu may 

 be related in some obscure fashion to mum. 



324- 

 Excellent identifications are found in the series mata-maka-mati-matan- 

 mara-maha-ma. We encounter a group based on a mani stem which we 

 can not reconcile with mata; they are included in the list for so much value 

 as may lie in the resemblance to ma. 



