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ence in Taliitian and Hawaiian. However, the above examples 

 clearly show the presenee of those Suffixes in all the four languages. 

 But there can be no (l()ul)t tliat the Suffixes do not play the im- 

 portant part in these four languages which they play in Melanesia, 

 or in Samoan. * 



(8) Verhol Suffices in the Solomon Island Languages. 



For tlie purpose of this Paper it will not be necessary to give 

 instances of words show^ing the ordinary way in which the Verbal 

 Suffixes are used in the Solomon Island languages; a full account of 

 their use in Florida is given in " Melanesian Languages," and the 

 present Avriter has done the same for Sa'a and Ulawa and Lau in 

 his grammars of those languages. 



No very satisfactory explanation can be given of the termination 

 ni in the Syllabic Suffixes in Ulaw-a, Wango, Sa'a, Lau, Florida. 

 Dr. Codrington (" Mel. Lang.," p. 532) speaking of its use in 

 Florida with the Verbal Suffixes, calls it a Preposition and refers to 

 the use of ni in Oba, where it is compounded with the Preposition 

 gi (Polynesian /./). The Florida ni occurs also as an Instrumental, 

 but in the Eastern Solomons in Sa'a, etc.. ni is used only as a Geni- 

 tive, the Instrumental being ana or a7ii. It is possible that the 

 Instrumental ani may be formed from nia by metathesis, and that 

 nia is compounded of ni prep, and a suffixed pronoun. 



Lau and Wango use the Syllabic forms in an Active sense, i.e., a 

 Pronoun is added as an anticipatory Object, without the necessity 

 of adding ni to the Suffix; Lau gonifa^i v.t. to receive; gwoutaH or 

 gu'outa'ini to incline the body; oalana'i to distribute; fatolama'i 

 to command (Sa'a haafolana'vni); Wango poofa'i to beseech. In 

 Ulawa and Sa'a when /// is omitted after the Suffix the Verb has no 

 transitive force. Jcire ho kelite'i honoiamu they stand in a circle 

 round you; ^«> to raise, fa'ela'i v.i. to set out. start, make a be- 

 ginning; and when the Verb with Suffix is separated from its 

 Object the ni is dropped and the Possessive is used as the Object 

 instead of the Suffixed Pronoun; kire ke su'uhe'i niano ada they 

 will completely destroy them; xwanc 'o ha'apolahd'A saewasu ana 

 mane i'oe chast-en not thy servant in thy displeasure. 



In Ulawa, Wango, Sa'a and Lau, there is an adjectival or parti- 

 cipal use of the Syllal)ic forms in «'/ without ni added; Sa'a 

 honide^i Wango Jiontira'i full of; Sa'a fekela'i, Lau tegela'i lost, 

 tarau continuously, straight on, taraure^i continuously. Also 

 ha'ideuie'i till daylight. Also in Lau the Syllabic forms without 



