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Maori, whaka — as, like, as if; Heb., ba k, ba ka. Ba, va, 

 baka, vaka ; (Fiji, vaka ; Sam., faa), prefixed to verbs in 

 Papuan and Polynesian languages forms a kind of causative ; 

 Heb., ba; Arb., ba; to be equal (My., baya), to make equal, 

 to come to pass, cause to come to pass. The ka in baka 

 means as ; Heb., ka ; hence vakamauri, to save, is literally 

 not to cause to live, but to cause to be as alive. Modern 

 causative bai, to bring in, insert; ancient causative ova, or 

 ava, to carry ; Heb., Hiphil, he via (avi), which means in 

 Hebrew also, to put in ; Ef., to entomb, bury. With m or 

 um (49) we have umai (dialect), mai ; to come ; also used 

 widely in Papuan and Polynesian as a particle to denote 

 direction towards the speaker, and like the prep. from. Fa, 

 be, pa be, (usually va^ mai), to come ; Heb., ba bo, or va bo, 

 (Dan. xi. 10). 



51. To tread with the feet, trample on ; pas ; Heb., bus 

 (bas) 



52. To snatch away ; bass ; Syr., baz, hence, 



53. A prey ; bes ; Heb., baz or bizah. 



54. To confide in ; fafatu, (fatu) ; Heb., batahh, prt., 

 batuahh. 



55. Principal or public house ; fare ; Tah., fare ; Maori, 

 ware; Fiji, bure; Heb., Ch., birah, palace. Eth., nabar, to 

 dwell. 



56. This, that ; nin, nen ; My., nun, nin, nen, inun ; Syr., 

 enun, enen. 



57. To be not, empty, worn out, without anything ; bol, 

 buel, bal, wol ; Api., buel ; Heb., ha\ah. 



58. A wave (swell); peau; Sam., id.; Ch., be'aa, to swell, 

 boil up. 



59. To burn up ; £ubara ; Heb., ba'ar : to kindle an oven, 

 bouria, buria ; Heb., prt., bo'erah, Hos., 7-4. 



60. Stupid, brutish ; bar ; Heb., ba'ar. 



61. Precipice ; patir ; Heb., batzir, inaccessible, high. 



62. To strike ; baka, boka, buka, puka ; Heb., pag'a. 



63. To inquire into, examine ; bous ; Ch., bihhash. 



64. Bora, wora, bara ; to beget; Heb., bara; hence, 



65. Offspring; wor; Heb., bar, and 



66. Fat ; barua ; Heb., baria. 



67. To make a humming sound ; buruma ; Arb., baram. 



68. To raise up, rakai ; takai ; Heb., gaah. In Ef. and Heb. 

 it also means to adorn. 



69. To be polluted, defiled ; ngolqpa ; Heb., gaal. 



