280 PHILOLOGY. 



PREPOSITIONS. 



67. Most of the prepositions have been already given in the 

 remarks on the declension of nouns. The following list contains 

 nearly all which are found in the several dialects. 



Samoan : a, of; e, by ; 'ei, in, at ; i, in, by ; 'i, to, into ; ma, with, for, on account of; 

 mat, from (place) ; nai, from ; o, of. 



Tongan : a, of; aki, with (inst.), by means of; e, by; i, in, at, by ; ki, to, into ; ma, 

 for ; mei, from ; mo, with ; o, of. 



New Zealand : a, e, ki, i, o, as in Tongan ; kei, at, with, in ; ma, mo, for ; mai, from ; 

 me, with ; na, no, of, from, by. 



In Rarotongan : a, e, ki, i, o, as above ; ei, at, in ; tei, in ; kio, with, chez ; ma, with ; 

 mei, from ; na, no, of, for. 



In Mangarevan, besides the first five of the Rarotongan, eki, with, by means of; io, 

 with, chez ; ma, for, from ; me, with ; mo, of, for, from ; na, no, of, from. 



In Tahitian the same as in Rarotongan, except 'i for ki, mai for mei, and 'io for kio. 



In Hawaiian, a, e, i, 'i, o, as in Samoan ; 'io, to, with ; ma, at, in, by, by means of; 

 mai, from ; me, with ; na, no, of, for. 



In Nukuhivan, a, e, ki (or 'i), i, o, as in the foregoing ; 'io, to, with ; ma, at, in ; mei, 

 from ; me, with ; na, no, of, for. 



CONJUNCTIONS. 



68. The conditional conjunctions if, that, lest, &c., have already 

 been mentioned in treating of the verb. As for the rest, the Poly- 

 nesian makes but sparing use of them. It seems, however, to have 

 had originally two conjunctions signifying and, the one uniting 

 nouns and the other verbs ; the former was probably ma, and related 

 to the preposition with; the latter was a vowel. 



In Samoan, o is and and or, but only with verbs ; ma, with, means also and, and is 

 used with nouns, adjectives, and numerals. 



In Tongan, o is used as in Samoan ; mo is the other connective, except with the 

 numerals, with which ma is used. Bea, which properly means also, is often used to con- 

 nect sentences and clauses of a sentence. 



In New Zealand, a is used for connecting verbs and clauses of a sentence, ma with 

 numerals, and me (with) with nouns. The latter, however, is rarely used ; to express 

 " the father and the mother," they say, " the father the mother ;" " the house of Peter 

 and John," is " the house of Peter of John." 



In Rarotongan, e is the general connective with both nouns and verbs ; ma, however, 

 is used with the numerals, and sometimes with nouns, as, te vaine ma te tamariki, the 

 woman and for with] the children. 



In Mangarevan, me signifies both with and and; e seems to be used as the general 

 connective. 



