lxiv Appendix. 
ENGLISH. Maori. MALAY. REMARKS. 
Age tau tua by ka as sag S une 
Argue totohe tutur to on iun wels conver- 
Artist tohunga tokung Malay dus no suffix 
eap ahu apus covere ; 
То charge or rush | amo amo to charge fiercely with bloody 
intent 
Abundant ba: 
То collect ved gai pungut 
To whaka oo ranga| bekan garang | to simulate boldness 
These nei anu 
Demigod atua antu spir 
i hatu batu Wasp iis; hail in Malay 
мч. called batu ujan, or 
Country whenua benua 
Thirsty wheinu na-minum 
On referring to Crawfurd's investigation of this subject, it will be seen that 
he states (see Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 28) that in a Maori dictionary of 
5,500 words he found 107 that were Malay, i.e. one fifty-first part, or about 
twenty to the 1,000. In the above list it will be seen that I have detected 
235 Malay words in a Maori dictionary containing about 6,000, i.e, 
one twenty-fifth part, or about thirty-nine words to the 1,000. I have no 
doubt that a person familiar with both languages, instead of with only one, 
would detect double the words that I have ; at the same time I must remark 
that of the 235 words sixteen are compounds, and thus mere repetitions, but 
this is also greatly the case with the dictionary itself, which goes a long 
way to swell its volume. The ratio I have given may therefore not be 
considered unfair. 
In as far as I had opportunity to compare the glossaries thoughout, from 
Madagascar to New Zealand, it is my opinion that Malay is nearer to Malagasi 
than it is to Maori, and I may venture the suggestion that some of the 
languages of the Molucca group or of Ceram—such as the Lariki or Ahtiago— 
will be found very much nearer to Maori than Malay is. 
In looking over the above list it should be borne in mind that the 
articulation of the Maori, as compared with Malay, is imperfect, the former 
having only the following eight consonants, viz : А, k, m, n, p, v, t, w. Thus 
the greater comprehensiveness or elaboration of the Malay will be found in the 
following comparison :— 
MALAY Ws on ee akhir < pr aras са Satu aier ikan 
MAORI ake ara atua wai ika 
MALAY bulu idong minum кем o biji bau ratus 
Maori huru inu ihi mau rau 
Thus, in most ми the causes of bine] are to be seen in the imperfect 
articulation in the Maori, or want of the required consonants to give the 
words the fall character, not in any radical divergence of sound. 
