OCEANIC MIGRATIONS. 



cup. 



ear. 



soft. 



foot. 



to carry in the arms. 

 . fly. 



to break, broken. 



liver. 



cold. 



rat. 



mat. 

 . mallet. 



This list might be lengthened to two or three hundred words, but 

 the preceding will be sufficient to show the changes which the Sa- 

 moan words undergo when adopted into the Tarawan. 



For the dialect of Banabe, the other supposed constituent of this 

 tongue, our means of comparison are much more limited. About a 

 hundred words, obtained from O'Connell and Mr. Punchard (see p. 

 80), both of whom had a very imperfect knowledge of the language, 

 are all that we possess which can be relied on. These words are, 

 no doubt, somewhat altered in their pronunciation from the proper 

 sound. This is especially the case where a d or t occur, which are 

 frequently changed by them to dj or ch (tg). This was an alteration 

 very often made by Grey and Kirby, at the Kingsmill Islands, but 

 the knowledge acquired during our intercourse with the natives 

 enabled us to detect it. 



It happens that most of the words which we have in the language 

 of Banabe, are such as, in the Tarawan, have been derived from its 

 Samoan parent. There are, however, a few exceptions. In the Ta- 

 rawan, mo signifies front or face, and is used for chief, in which case 

 it is commonly connected with apa (pronounced by Kirby ap], mean- 

 ing land, island, town, as, mo-n' te apa, " chief or front of the land." 

 Both the interpreters pronounced this montgap (or montshap}. In 

 Banabean the word for high chief, according to O'Connell, is mund- 

 jab, which is probably the same, in composition as in meaning, with 

 the Tarawan term. Land, or country, in Banabean, is djab ; in 

 Tarawan it is te apa, pronounced by Kirby tcap. The pronoun / in 

 Tarawan is igai, but in Grey's pronunciation always nai ; in the 

 dialect of Banabe it is also nai, according to Mr. Punchard. An old 

 cocoa-nut is called by the natives of Taputeouea, penu ; Kirby pro- 



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