20 The Languages of the Pacific. 
word. Polynesian and Aryan show no sign of this. These char- 
acteristics reveal a different linguistic attitude of mind from Poly- 
nesian and Indo-Furopean. 
The linguistic attitude of Polynesia faces north towards 
Japanese and Ainu which have got no such restriction on their 
use of nouns and numerals. That the Polynesian vocabulary looks 
also to some extent in that direction will be apparent from a few 
examples. (1) Hawatian huli, kalo tops for planting, Samoan wii, 
sprouts of taro, Aino chi urip, the Japanese taro-yam, Japanese wri, 
a melon. (2) Maori takutaku, to recite incantations, Samoan ta’u, 
to tell. Ainu itak, to speak, word, speech. (3) Maori tango, to 
handle, Samoan tango, to touch, (Latin tango), Malay tangan, the 
hand, Ainu tek, the hand. (4) Maori toko, to spring up in the 
mind, Ainu tok or tuk, to grow, project. (5) Maori toko, a pole, 
(English stock), Japanese oko, a pole for carrying burdens. (6) 
Maori po, the under world, Ainu pok, beneath, under. (7) Maori 
toht, to cut, Ainu fuz, to cut. (8) Maori tuhi, to tattoo, Japanese 
tojt, to prick, to sew. (9) Maori toma, a burial place; Ainu toma, 
a mat for rolling the dead in. (10) Maori Tu, the god who propped 
up the heaven, then god of war; Ainu tuntu, a pillow, chief support 
of a building, hence God as the upbuilder of the universe. (11) 
Maori tupo, a tomb, a cave or hiding place for the bones of the 
dead, tupapaku, a dead body; Ainu tumbu, a room, house. (12) 
Maori tuki, (Tongan tsuki), to thrust or strike with anything end- 
wise; Japanese tsuk?, to thrust, or strike with anything pointed. 
(13) Maori ana, a cave; Japanese ana, a cave. (14) Maori whau, 
(Hawaiian haw), the hibiscus from whose bark kapa and cords were 
made: Polynesian aute, (Hawaiian wauke), the paper mulberry, 
from Hawaiian alu, to clothe; or the soaked bark of the mulberry, 
equal to Maori kahu, a garment, kakahu, to clothe; Japanese kazu, 
the paper mulberry. (15) Polynesian ahi, fire; Ainu abe, fire; 
Japanese ji, fire. (16) Polynesian ai, to beget; Japanese ai, love. 
(17) Tongan amo, to use friction on the body; Futuna amoamo, 
to rub a sick person lightly; Ainu amusa, to stroke the head -as 
salutation. These have been taken at random out of scores of 
examples I have marked down in my Maori dictionary. 
I must not weary you by too many examples of the affinity of 
the Polynesian words to European; Fornander has done it to some 
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