445°: Transactions.—Miscellaneous. 
As, Kohai tangata ko hena 
Koe tangata kohena ahai? 
But, Koe togi ko ena heha? What axe is that ? 
In the same way, ki heha means, to which ? 
Se eee by what ? 
ji ha (for fi he ha). How many ? 
M. Buschmann (p. 184) points out that, in Tahitian, the forms are :-— 
Aha (possibly, the Malay apa, and Javanese hapa) answering to the 
the French quoi? pourquoi? 
é aha (in Rarotongan, éaa) 
tet héa (derived from héa, when, which is used in Hawaiian adyerbially 
as well as pronominally) 
he | the sign of the Nom. with reference to persons. 
ovat 
chia, in the sense of ‘ combien,” “ how many ?”’ (possibly the 
Javanese pira), as, éhia fare? How many houses ? 
At Nukuhiva—he finds 
oval 
ovai aioa—quel est le nom ? 
éha téci—qui est celui-ci ? 
As, cha teméa néi? Who is it? What is it? 
tha ta ve—What are you doing ? 
The Samoan shows the greatest sunplicity of forms, and has rejected 
even more consonants than Hawaiian or Tahitian. Thus, I find— 
ai’—who? As, ko ai tou ingoa?. What is thy name ? 
t ai—to whom ? 
a—what? 
fea—which ? 
o le fea—which, of more than one ? 
Jia—how many ? 
é fia fale—how many houses ? 
So grammarians, as Dr. Maunsell, make further divisions of the 
Pronouns into Distributive and Indefinite ; but these seem to depend more 
on their position in the sentence than on any thing else, moreover, are also 
used for other purposes. Thus, he expresses each, and every, by the Demon- 
strative or possesive pronoun, or by the noun twice or thrice repeated—as, 
T tenet ra, itenci ra, each day ; ia tangata, ia tangata, each man. In the 
same way, he states that some other, or ai y, are, generally, denoted by tetahi, 
etahi, ete. 
