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extent in his third volume, and though a percentage of his examples 
are inaccurate because he has failed to get at the root of either the 
Polynesian word or the European and so compared a root element 
with a merely formative element, seventy-five per cent of his com- 
parisons are on the whole correct and even scientific. I have 
hundreds of others; a few will suffice. (1) We all know the 
Hawaiian word kahuna for a sorcerer or priest; it is in other 
Polynesian dialects tahunga or tohunga or taunga, and Paumotan 
has tahutahu, a sorcerer; it is, like so many European words, and 
still more Polynesian, influenced by two roots; one is tahu, to 
kindle, to make a burnt offering, from the root iu, to shine, burn, 
tapu, sacred; the other is tohu, to draw out, teach, prophesy, (Ainu 
tusu, to prophesy, Latin ducere, to draw out, educare, to teach). 
There is a corresponding word in the European tongue; it is in 
German Zauber, a sorcerer, in Old Norse taufr, in Old Saxon 
toufere, this is probably at first from a root hu to offer a sacrifice, 
to perform a sacred service; this appears in Anglo-Saxon /us/, an 
‘ 
offering, the origin of Hamlet's “wnhouselled, unaneled,’ but the 
prefix ta or to being added, the other function of a priest, that of 
educating drew in the influence of the root fuk, to guide, teach, 
which we see in our word education. (2) Polynesian whatu, a 
stone, has another form patu, to strike, the source of the Maori 
patupatu, a club, a stone striker; this is evidently from pa, to strike, 
and tu, to be strong or stiff. In the European languages there is the 
word represented by English bat and batlet; the English battle and 
combat are from the same, but through French from Low Latin 
i.e. Latinised Teutonic batucre, from batu, to strike, and that is 
from the same two roots, ba, to strike, and tu, strong. (3) The 
Hawaiian awiki, to hasten (equal to wiki); this is from two roots, 
wi, to be quick, as in, awiwi, to hasten, and ki, to go. The French 
vite — quick and wif, lively or alive. The English quick which 
also means to be alive, is from a root vi, to be alive, which appears 
in Latin vivere and ki or kvi, to hasten, to have energy. (Compare 
root 4, to go, Latin ire.) This wi or kw or ki, to be strong, 1s 
practically the same as vi or 7, to live; it appears as i in Tahitian 
and Paumotan wai, to be, to exist, and in Maori toz, life; (compare 
Latin aevum—English ever); this vai appears in the Polynesian 
word for spirit, soul, ghost, vairua, which properly means “the 
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