BY HERMANN B. RITZ, M.A. 



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(9) Dental+labial — rest+projection : tapa, ham : tab- 

 rina (=; tapa-rina), the back, a prolongation of the ham; 

 tepara. come; tipla, eyebrow; tapieti, tabelti, to travel; 

 this word is supposed to be an imitation of the English 

 equivalent, but it is not probable that that word was 

 used so frequently as equivalent of " to walk," that 

 practically all the tribes incorporated it in their vocabu- 

 lary. According to our theory, tapieti is simply tap- 

 let-i, i.e., the hams alternately moving forward and' 

 resting; takleti would refer to the same action of the- 

 legs or the feet ; but we find numerous instances of the 

 group pi, and very few of the group kl ; the latter seems, 

 to have been difficult or disagreeable to the Tasmanians ;; 

 tapieti would make an excellent substitute for the ob- 

 jectionable takleti. The probability of the exchange is. 

 confirmed Idv the alternative form kableti for tableti. 



(10) Guttural+liquid — rejection+motion : kole, to 

 twitch, snatch away ; koliena, orphan, whose parents- 

 have been taken away. In further confirmation of our 

 remark regarding the group kl, we find that these two 

 words are practically alone in beginning with the syllable 

 kal, kel, kol, etc. 



Kami, mouth, teeth, tongue, probably owes its k to- 

 the movement of the chin (v. supra) ; Ave find many 

 words belonging to this meaning of km, but very few 

 signifying rejection. Of the latter, however, we have a 

 characteristic one; komptena, a spirit of evil, objection- 

 ably moving near to human beings, tena being akin tO' 

 tanate, mischief (v. supra). 



Kana, voice, noise, song, speech, evidently belongs 

 to the " chin " group of k sounds. H. Ling Roth's lists 

 give no kan words of the other ; indeed, the number of 

 words beginning with k is comparatively small ; the 

 sound of rejection is usually found at the end of a word. 



Krakne, krakena, to rest, sit down, is made up of 

 kara and the negation k and the suffix ne or ena, which 

 properly belong's to nouns ; kara-k would then mean 

 ''disagreeable motion? No!" We find kroti (quick 

 motion), kronie (to climb), both implying exertions 

 which the Aborigines disliked. 



(11) Guttural+labial — rejection+projection: kupa,. 

 good (to give or take).' We find kapugi-lia, mouth, and 



