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Maori n, as it also does in tona, a kind of eel, the Maori 

 TUNA, an eel. Thus volo is equivalent to huku, and the word 

 is apparently applied to a bird as "the feathered" creature. 

 The second part of the word, ndolo, should be compared with 

 the Fijian, where d is always sounded nd. So we get dolo 

 for DULU. -D is the Maori r (which was written as d by early 

 missionaries, who wrote IMaori eUxV, two, as dua), and com- 

 pares, as Malay dua, tico, with Maori eua, two. Therefore 

 DULU is equal to iiueu. Then, putting the whole word to- 

 gether, we get HUKU-EUEU, the "owl-bird" (as in the other 

 comparatives, " pcacoch-hird" and '' ingeon-hird''), instead of 

 VOEONDOLO ; and the coinordenco with Maori eueu, cm owl, is 

 very marked. 



HOA, to aim a blow at by throwing. Cf. ngahoahoa, head- 

 ache; pahoahoa, headache. We shall find by the compara- 

 tives that the word generally meaiis a fracture of the head. 

 Samoan, foa, to chip, as a hole in an egg-shell ; to break, as a 

 rock ; to break the head ; a fracture of tJie head. Tahitian, hoa, 

 the headache ; to cjrasp as an antagonist ; a icrestler : mahoa- 

 HOA, a violent Jieadaclie. Tongan, foa, to fracture; to crack; 

 to make an opening : fofoa, to crack into small pieces ; a good 

 spcarsman : tafoa, to break, to crack : foaaga, a litter, a brood 

 (from chipping the egg-shell). Marquesan, hahoa, to beat bark 

 for native cloth. Maugaian, OA, to strike. Ext. Poly. : Mala- 

 gasy, VGA, to be struck, to be icounded. The Hawaiian form 

 suggests a curious etymology. Thus : Hoa, to strike on the 

 /^eacZ with a stick ; to beat; to make native cloth by beating 

 bax'k on a stone with a stick ; to drive as cattle. The last 

 meaning is the vital one. The Maori prefixed causative 

 WHAKA, to cause to do, to make to do anything, is represented 

 in Hawaiian by hog {i.e., hoko, with a lost k), and this is 

 sometimes abbreviated to ho, as in ho-auau, to wash the body 

 (for WHAKA-KAUKAu). If A is the verbal root of ho-a, we have 

 the Hawaiian ho-a, to drive as cattle, equalling the Maori a, 

 to drive — a connection before untliought of. 



H.0'^0, to splice ; to join ; to unite. This meaning is fully 

 borne out in the other dialects, even when carried out into 

 more abstract relations as to making agreements, &c. Samoan, 

 fono, to hold a council, to patch, to inlay ; fa'afong, to gather 

 to a meeting ; laufong, a plank of a canoe ; tafgng, to join 

 the planks of a canoe. Tahitian, noNO, to splice a rope, 

 to join pieces of wood; hgxoa, an agreement; pahong, to 

 splice or join ; tahgxg, to join together. Hawaiian, hong, to 

 join, to unite together ; makua-hgxgai, a parent by marriage ; 

 PAHGNO, to sew up as a rent. Mangarevan, hgng, to adjust or 

 _p/ace sticks ; to lengthen by splicing on another piece. Ext. 

 Poly. : Fiji, vgng, the joints or pieces of which the body of a 

 canoe is formed. We get a possible hint at the meaning 



