256 PHILOLOGY. 



or mo; as ha anau kai, some of their food (or some food of theirs) ; ha amou lolo, some 

 of your oil ; ma aku, for me ; ma amoutolu, for yourselves, or for your own ; mo onau- 

 tolu, for their own. 



The h in hoku, ho, &c., is probably from the article lie ; this article also frequently 

 precedes the other class, as lie ene foe, his mother ; he enau /iau, their coming, (for he 

 hau a nau, the coming of them.) 



In the dialect of New Zealand the possessive pronouns are different for singular and 

 plural nouns. They are 



SINGULAR. PLURAL. 



taku, toku aku, oku, my 



tau, ton au, ou, thy 



tana, iona ana, ona, his 



ta maua, to maua a maua, o maua, our (dual) 



ta matou, to matou a matou, o matou, our (plural) 



and so for the remainder of the dual and plural. 



Maku, moku, mau, mou, mana, mono,, ma maua, mo maua, &c., mean of or 

 for me, &c., and are frequently used with the sense of for me, for thee, &c., and hence 

 simply mine, thine. Naku, noku nau, nou nana, nona na maua, no maua, &c., 

 are also used to signify for, of, or by me, thee, &c. 



It should be observed that the second (or plural) class of pronouns is used after the 

 negative hore, whether the noun be in the singular or not ; as, ka hore ona hiahia, it 

 was not his wish, or, he had no desire. In some cases, moreover, this class is used for 

 the ordinary genitive of the personal pronoun after a noun, singular as well as plural, 

 as, te ahua ona e nolio ana, the appearance of him who sat, &c. 



The Rarotongan has two classes of pronouns, resembling those of the New Zealand in 

 sound, but differing somewhat in use ; they are 



1ST CLASS. %D CLASS. 



taku, toku aku, oku 



taau, toou aau, oou 



tana, tona ana, ona 



ta maua, to maua, &c. a maua, o maua, &c. 



The first class, unlike the New Zealand, are used with both singular and plural nouns. 

 The second class'are used principally in the two following cases: (1) with numerals, 

 as erima aau are, five are thy houses , (2) after the negative kare, as, kare ona are, he 

 has no house or houses. They were, no doubt, originally plural forms. 



There is a class of abbreviated pronouns, in the singular, which differ from the pre- 

 ceding in not regarding the difference of a and o; they are taku, my (pronounced short); 

 to, thy, and tana, his. They seem to be used for the purpose of discriminating between 

 different meanings of a word ; toku vaerua is, my soul ; taku Vaerua (said by the 

 Supreme Being), my Spirit. 



Naku, noku, naau, noou, nana, nona, na maua, no maua, &c., mean of, for or 

 by me, thee, him, us two, and, also, simply mine, thine, &c. 



In Mangarevan, the possessive pronouns, as given in the vocabulary, are, taku, toku, my ; 



