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[Wake. 

 the Dravidian word for hand in Gonr. i-nii- n 



•atKan I. Gond, and the *£££* IX 2.^.™ °™' 

 meaning "hand." r , ia „ oti „' h , A "., . "- uem «< Horn a common root 



used in speaking of a ch e"s and T r, ' ^^ "' W ° r( ' " M is »« 

 lees «a„, wh ? h is ,* ™'^" I '"»- » <*- Polynesian dia- 



jnst referred to. The origin o Ml ["Tor U; , * "'""' '° ,l,e w " r<ls 



*. langnagea of Cochin ££ w , h Z^Z* ' ^•'° "° B ° Ugl " ' a 

 unless it is derived from ,he Shan dialects ' , we the IT "' '"* 



for •• hand." The Malay would seem to 1,3 '' "*" mmi 



and " three " from the L^ZZZl^t^T^-^ " ,w0 " 

 y word „,„„„,, In t „ e Tungus C~" fiv ' , , WaS mdeb ' e<1 f ° r 

 Offering Com of this word, and in the same in ""*' orasli S" tI J' 



iog to the Malay daa Z.iT^T'ioZ^ "*™"™™- 



tola. y ' ta In ^ OI ynesian become lua and 



^^.* It should be noted, howler Zth J " ^ ° f idemicaI 

 met with in the Polynesian HZl ■ im P orlant Mature is not 



though it is found in aU tTe t ru e 2laT U V e r Pl ° y * *"** ****»*• aI " 

 quent in those of the PlZXei^nTp^rT ^ * ^^^ tn ~ 

 origin of this "Malayan Sr« " . / ■ ^ d ° eS not S 1 ™ th ^ 



who first pointed ouT^eTce IT^* 8 ^ L ^ le ' 

 to understand how the use of inftT«Tn. * 7 * son *ewhat difficult 



be met with in Polynesian ft as P f% ^^ in Mala ^ but ~* 

 form one family witl the' '' ZvJu 1 * ^^ Uw " ^"^ 



China," which the Mal ava -r y f? C UQt ° ned laa S™ges of Indo- 



' """-« iue Malays are said to have acuuirerl Tr ti,^ r. i 

 and Cambodian languages belong , n tho aCqmre ^ If the Polynesian 

 either have been developed af ta^w ^^ that feature must 



by the latter from a foXn source ^J?**™ * ° r *™ "een -quired 

 infixes is essentially Ma hv, n * WG C ° n8I ' der that the ™ of 



taken by the C-^ that it has been 



the Cham. The latter onin.nn . 3 , allled laa S^ge, such as 



the Khmer C 2^ ^^ ce ^n other characters of 

 untoned languages " and rLhtlT.n % J^' Wlth the " P ol ^7"abic 



r^to-toM ; although the same wo , 7 ? ^ Khmer h ?™™«^ 



the phrase alone gfvin* t h TtrZl « T"* 1 Si S Qificatio ^ the sense of 



t The Samoan prefix is ?«o. 



