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Plural. J or éi is clearly part of néi, as is obvious in the Rarotongan, 
teiénéi. In Marquesan (Nukuhiva) he mentions, i téié née, to-day. ; 
téét 
téié név 
The local relations are formed by the connecting the substantive with 
one of the three adverbs of locality, néi, na, or ra, as, taua, taata, na or ra, 
this man. Malay and Tagala, especially, preserve similar local relations. 
i ce, celui-ci 
Relative pronouns, as distinct from others, do not appear to be used in 
the Polynesian dialects, generally they are, in fact, supplied by the sense 
of the passage, or parts of other pronouns are used for them. Thus, 
in Maori, the personal pronoun is used for the genitive, as ko te 
tamaiti tenei nona te ringaringa i wera i te ahi, this is the child whose 
hand was burnt in the fire (Williams, p. xxii.); or by ai after the verb, as, 
kei hea te pukapuka i tuhi-tuhi ai koe, where is the letter that you wrote ? 
Ai is sometimes similarly used, as, nana ahau é ora ai, his (was the effort) 
by which I was saved. In the other dialects, similar devices are adopted. 
Thus, in Hawaian, te; Tahitian, tei and ote ; Rarotongan tei and ko tei are 
met with. 
In the case of the Interrogative Pronouns, it seems to me that it is 
difficult, in many instances, to decide whether some of them are not more 
properly adverbs. Those, however, usually given in the Maori grammars 
are :— 
Wai ; ; 
P ae 2 Restricted to persons, as, Ko wai tera tangata, 
Kowai j 
i who is that man ? 
EK? wat 
Aha. What? Restricted to everything meaning kind. 
Tehea 
Daas | Which 2 With reference to things. 
Besides these, Dr. Maunsell notes kohea and pehea, and adds that plurality 
is sometimes obtained by using ma (as we have seen before), as, Ko wai ma 
ena, who are they ? 
The use of tehea is seen in the sentence, Ko tehea 0 nga waka i pakaru’ 
which of the canoes was broken? Ko ehea tangata au e ki nei? which 
men did you speak of ? 
In Tongan, Mr. Mariner gives— 
Kohai, Ahai? Who?  ) With the same distinction as in Maori, 
Koeha Which? | between— 
Koehe heha What ? (1) Men. 
Ahai Whose ? (2) Inanimate objects or brutes. 
