BY HERMANN B. RITZ, M.A. 01 



Rayna, raina, rene we know already. 



Pogana, in D., we know to mean " man." 



Poonyna or ponnyna means " bird," literally active, 

 speedy, as ni, like li and ri, means " moving." 



The next line is — 



In M., nena nawra pewillah, pallah nawra pewillah, 

 pellawah. 



In D., nara para poivella para ; ballahoo ! Hoo ! 



In W., nyna nara pewilly para ; nara pewilly, palla- 

 woo. 



Nena, nyna, we know. Nawra, nara means " he," 

 " that one," " the man." 



Pewilla!h, poivella, pewilly, are evidently forms of 

 the same word, and are connected in meaning, if not in 

 derivation, with pallah, para, pellawah, pallawoo, balla- 

 hoo ; all mean " man." 



Ling Roth misprints poivella for powella. 



Pe means " active ;" wila means " wood," therefore 

 '.'hard," "tough," "strong;" so that pewila would de- 

 note one who was active and capable of resistance, and 

 therefore "a man in his strength." Palla is eit'her, as 

 we have noted before, " round," and therefore " strong," 

 or it is an abbreviation of pewilla — unless, indeed, the 

 latter is an enlargement of palla, by the insertion of the 

 syllable we, which is akin to pe and be, and means 

 " active," and may therefore be used to indicate em- 

 phasis. We find such " infixes " frequently in other 

 languages, from " induperator " for " imperator " in 

 Lucretius, to tihe very modern " In the Sweet (in the 

 sweet) By-and-by." 



Thus pallawoo would be just a variant of pawila, 

 with the additional emphasis of the final " hoot," which 

 is repeated in D. as Hoo ! 



The only remaining word is para, and this is in all 

 probability a variant of palla; the interchange of liquid 

 consonants, "' 1" and " r," "' m " and " n " is a very 

 common phenomena everywhere. For instance, many 

 Chinese will pronounce ring as ling. 



