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32. Sav. — Heb., asaf ; cognates, suf ; safah, yasaf ; meanings 

 common to Ef. and Heb., to scrape, scrape off, together, sur- 

 pass (be great), collect, take, take off, away. Causative, cause 

 to go away ; passive (modern), misav, taken away, separated ; 

 and (ancient) siv ; cf. Heb., ps. part., asuf, to be gathered 

 together, to vanish, perish. 



33. To bind to anything ; sera ; Heb., asar. 



34. Weak; pwel (pel), wel ; Heb., afil, apil. 



35. End ; abis ; My., abis ; Heb., apes. 



36. To surpass ; bong, pong ; Arb., paq ; hence, 



37. Extremity ; pango, pang (much used in names of 

 places throughout Oceania) ; Arb., pauqon or pauq. 



38. To go round ; ova or epa ; Heb., aff or app. 



39. To weave, intertwine ; rav ; Heb., arav. 



40. To go ; arowo, aroo, povou ; My., perga, ; Heb., arach 

 or arahh. 



41. A time ; rak, rang ; Arb., arach, to appoint a time. 



42. To delay ; /irak ; Arb., Heb., arach. 



43. A foundation ; isi (issi) ; Ch., Arb., ash (osh, ush). 



44. To come (dialect) ; da (nda) ; My., data^ ; Heb., 

 athah. 



45. Food, a present ; vang ; Erom., vang ; An., hang ; 

 Mg., faha?ia. In Bible, only in Ez. and Dan., bag or vag. 



46. To cut ; bit ; (knife, bit) ; Heb., badd or padd. 



47. Quickly, swiftly, tremblingly ; bile, bele ; Heb., bahel ; 

 Ch., behal, hence, 



48. Bile, file ; to flash, lighten, and s., lightning ; Po., id. 

 Fiji., vula; My., bulaw, moon. 



49. To shut, cover ; bon, won, fun, bun ; Heb., bahan. 

 The secondary meanings in Ef. are, to finish (from closing or 

 sealing), to blot out, kill ; and the word is widely used in 

 Oceania. Ef, bunu ; My., bunoh ; Mg., vono ; Ef, bunu^a ; 

 Java, huntu ; Sam., pupuni. Ef, fona; Mg., fono, cloth 

 covering, or wrapper. Ef , fonu ; Java, panu, a turtle 

 (because covered). With auxiliary m. — Ef, mono, munu ; 

 Mg., mamono (for mafono) ; this change on prefixing auxiliary 

 m to verbs beginning with a labial takes place invariably 

 in Mg., and only occasionally in other Oceanic languages. 



50. To come in, come upon, enter, to go ; pa, va, paw,, vaw,; 

 also bua, fua (hence na pua, a road, way); Heb., ba, (bua). 

 Bua, to procure, bring ; My., bawa ; Heb., bua, ba. Pa to, or 

 pa ta ; My., pada ; even, equal ; Heb., ba'ad. Baki ; My., 

 bagi; to, unto; Heb., ba ki. Baka ; My., bagai; Fiji, baka; 



