822 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
Man (vir). 
Arabic, mara‘; with nunation mara‘un; Aramaic, mare, mar ; 
Oceanic, mera, muera, mane, mani, mano, man, ngane GAnui, ane, 
(in tangane, taane) ; (7 for m), langai, lacay, laki, lahy, and with 
nunation, burani, muwani, lanan. 
Woman. 
Feminine of preceding word. Arabic, marat, mar-a‘t ; Oceanic, 
(see for the same changes of the ending ¢ above under the numerals, 
4, ke.) baluk, puran, bran, ngaruni ; and the middle 7 elided, 
but, bite, matu, fid, vek, bine, fine, buan, bien, wien, pain ; ending 
t elided, farri, ngarwi, urao ; both r and ¢ elided, mua, bai, bay?, 
vy ; | for m, lewa, alewa, iluai, lai, lio ; re-duplicated parampuan, 
parawan, pilaven, mavek, faifid, fafine, mahine, babayi, bavy, 
babin, &e. 
These foregoing words—hundred, water, banana, man, woman— 
beginning with m, show the m changed to J, 7, n, &e. The 
following word shows initial / changed to m, n, 7. 
Tongue. 
Arabic, /isan; Hebrew, Jishon; Matori, lesa ; Oceanic, lidah, 
litah, lela, rero, lapi, lapu (of the p in Salapan, 9), leme, neme, 
meme, mena. 
The following words, down to that for “ears,” have as their 
initial letter one of the original four peculiar Semitic gutturals 
like the numerals 1, 5, and 10, and showing the same phenomena 
of change to 7, /, ¢, ih ny, 1G, and m, and to a spiritus lines or 
elision. 
Father. 
Arabic, a‘bw’ ; Hebrew, wb, av ; Aramaic, aba ; Oceanic, rama, 
ray, tama, rema, kama, ab. 
Mother. 
Arabic, wm, and v‘mu (Malay ibw) ; Aramaic, ima ; Tigre, ena ; 
Oceanic, reny, rena, tina, sina. 
Time. 
Arabic, a‘ny, a‘n ; Oceanic, rant, rang, lang, nang, dan. 
House. 
Arabic, h”aimat h’aima; Oceanic, huma, luma, suma, kom, wma, 
ima, lom, om. 
Testicles. 
Arabic, h”isy h”usyo ; Oceanic, rass, laso, rasi, asi, luho. 
Fire. 
Syrian, 4’ab to burn (fire); Arabic, re-duplicated, h’ubah’ibu, 
fire; Oceanic, gabu, kabu, api, afy, habu, rahi, lahi, lap, yap, 
sembi. 
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