POLYNESIAN GRAMMAR. 



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ONE HUNDRED. 



Fak. lau 

 Sam. lau, selau 



Tong. au, teau 



N. Z. rau 



Rar. 



Mang. rima takau rau 



TWO HUNDRED. FOUR HUNDRED. 



lua lau fa yalau 



ua ijeau fa yeau 



rua rau 

 rau 



Pau. penu 

 Tab. rima ta'au 



rau 



wa rau 



rua rau 



rua rau 



Haw. luatanahd me lima tanahd lau 



ta iwatalua 

 Nuk. ua toha ma ima tohd au 



tekau 



ONE THOUSAND AND UPWARDS. 



kiu, a large number, indefinite 

 afe, 1000 ; mano, 10,000 ; iln, 



100,000 

 afe, 1000; mano, 10,000; kilu, 



100,000 



mano, 1000; tint, 10,000 

 mano, 2000 ; tint, 20,000 

 mano, 2000 ; kiu, 20,000 ; tint, 



a great number 

 mano, 1000 (?) 

 mano, 2000 ; manotini, 20,000 ; 



rehu, 200,000 ; iu, 2,000,000 

 mano, 4000 ; tini, 40,000 ; lehu, 



400,000 

 mano, 4000 ; tini, 40,000 ; tufa, 



400,000 ; pohi, 4,000,000 



The word afe, which in Samoan and Tongan signifies a thousand, is wanting in the 

 other dialects ; they have adopted, instead of it, mano, which, in the two former, signifies 

 ten thousand. Kilu, Tong., 'ilu, Sam., a hundred thousand, is probably the same word 

 with iu in Tahitian, which signifies a million, and kiu, which, in Mangarevan, stands for 

 twenty thousand, and which we heard used at Fakaafb for a great but indefinite number, 

 (e kiu te taifale, the houses are very many.) 



In Samoan, the natives appeared to make, in the tens and hundreds, a difference 

 between the dual and the plural. Sefulu was ten ; lua fulu or lua sefulu, twenty; and 

 tolu ~gafulu, thirty. So selau was the word for one hundred ; lua lau or lua selau, two 

 hundred ; tolu -galau, three hundred. The missionaries, however, employ lua yafulu 

 and lua yalau, and it is likely that the usage of the natives may vary. 



31. In the Tahitian, Rarotongan, and Mangarevan, the words 

 rau and mano, which should properly signify hundred and thousand, 

 are doubled in value, and stand for two hundred and two thousand ; 

 while in Hawaiian and Nukuhivan they are quadrupled, and stand 

 for four hundred and four thousand. The missionaries, in order to 

 induce the natives to return to the more convenient decimal enume- 

 ration, have been obliged to introduce into these dialects the English 

 words hundred and thousand (huneri and tausani). 



The origin of these singular variations is probably to be found in the fact that most of 

 the objects which the natives have occasion to enumerate, being articles of food, and of 

 small size (such as yams, cocoa-nuts, fish, and the like), can be most conveniently and 

 expeditiously counted in pairs. This mode is therefore universally adopted. Taking one 

 in each hand, the native, as he throws them into the storehouse, or on to the heap, counts 

 one; for two pairs, he says two; for ten pairs simply ten, and so on. Hence each 

 number has a twofold value, one for objects counted singly, and one for those reckoned 

 in pairs. The first emigrants to Tahiti had naturally but little occasion to employ the 



