Snjffixes in Oct'dnie L<i iKjiKigcs. ol7 



Keapaia aiul Hula. 

 Ila to speak. /f(ir/i to speak to; ao to go, aof/a/ to go witli ; 

 gegelciffi to surround (c.f. Motu (jef/e to surround); reaniai to l)riiig, 

 veamaiagi to come witli ; horoyingi to 1)6 a substitute for (c.f. Motii 

 boloa a substitute, hehoJo to be a substitute). 



8uau. 

 Saha what? ;/ sahaigu wliat have vou to do with me? atai to know 

 about, guiaii vasnna i afaiei the chief his word he knew it. 



Kiri 



wina. 



/ saopo he tell lies, / saojxili he deceives, / Kdopakaigu he de- 

 ceives me; ilili he goes to him. 



Wedau. 

 Bawauci a bundle, fxnrni to cavi'V in a bundle; gudii door, gudui 

 to close a door; riwa to say, rlwei to tell; vipeuni to drop some- 

 thing {vi Causative pen. to drop); qa to be finished, viqai to finish; 

 kiala to sit, ktalei to sit on something; galo to be in soak, vigaloi 

 to soak something; viai to be clean, u ta viaini-u you (may) clean 

 me. 



Tavara. 



koekoeama false, koeame-hi deceive them; kuku near, lei-kukui 

 to make near; hanapii wise, hanapugeni to know. 



Miikawa. 



waba a name, wahei to name; 6o^^^, to come, hotuvi to bring; 

 tomatomci drinking, tomani to drink something; iiagari-si fear 

 them, /cepfa /v;e nagara do not fear ; wona to say, (i'o/ii to tell ; 

 gaigaire clean, gaireni to cleanse. 



Remarks. — The above instances show the addition of the Verbal 

 Suffix to Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives, but no instance is given 

 of the Suffix added to an Adverb. In Suau the Suffix is attached to 

 saha what? but as shown by Dr. Codrington ("Mel. Lang.," p. 

 134), this Pronoun common to the Oceanic Languages saha. sa, 

 sava, taha, is a Noun. 



(10) Other Suffvres to Verbs. 



Ta; Motu nuihuta to sleep (Sa'a maahu); Samoan faufili a cord 

 to fasten a bundle, faufilita to come back empty using the faufili 

 to beat off tlie flies; viafuta to be aroused from sleep; ' apata to clap 



