824 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F, 
Head. 
Hebrew, rosh; Arabic, raasu ; Oceanic, lori, loha, lova, hulu, 
uru, alu, karu, paru. 
Note the changes here of the s or sh to 7, /, h, and a labial, as 
in the following word. 
Hair. 
Arabic, shah‘ru ; Oceanic, huru, hili, lulu, firi, vili, bulu, volo. 
The following two words show the interchange of guttural and 
labial— 
Swine. 
Arabic, k’abbah‘; Oceanic, babi, puaka, wak. 
Bow. 
_Arabic, Rasu ; Oceanic, hisu, husu, dsu, vus, pasi, pana, fana, 
vine. 
Moon. 
Ethiopic, ware’, or varah’ ; Mahri, wurit, &e. ; Oceanic, bulan, 
volana, bulak, bulet wurah, mohok, mokwa, bughan, vula. 
Lightning. 
Hebrew, barak ; Oceanic, bilak; Malay, kilat or kilap ; others 
hilatra, bila, wila. 
Liver. 
Ethiopic, kabdi or kavdé ; Amharic, hode (if arut, 1); Malagasy, 
Malay, Samoan, Efate, até or dty. 
The following two words are examples showing little change— 
Earth, ground, soil. 
Arabic, tano ; Oceanic, tano, tany, tana. 
Sea. 
Arabic, tas’ ; Oceanic, tasi, tahi, tai. 
The foregoing words, except the last two, have been given, not 
because of their identity of sound, but because of the striking 
phonetic changes they exhibit. These changes could never be 
accounted for till the manner in which the peculiar Semitic 
gutturals are represented in Oceanic was investigated. The 
obvious error into which one fell was to expect to find these 
gutturals as they are in the most analytic modern Semitic dialects, 
—that is, as a more breathing or spiritus linis so elided ; whereas 
the facts show that in the Oceanic mother-tongue these gutturals 
had the same strong and varying peculiar pronunciation as in the 
other ancient Semitic tongues. This comes out clearly also in 
the pronouns, as we shall now see. 
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