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192. To be riaild, gentle; medium; Mg., medemy; My., 

 lumah ; Arb., hhaluma. 



193. To cut off skin or bark ; mulu ; Heb., mul ; also the 

 word is used both in Ef. and Heb. in the sense of, to circum- 

 cise. Circumcision prevails among a part of the Efatese, 

 very extensively in the New Hebrides, and in other parts of 

 Oceania. 



194. Defilement ; mym, (mim) ; Heb., mum. 



195. The Heb. word for eye, 'yn (160), literally means 

 fountain ; from 'in, to flow out. This word or root is found 

 in Mg. as ony, river, and in Ambrym as un, in un miten, 

 flowing of the eye, tears. 



196. To die ; mat, mate ; My., Sam., id. ; Mg., maty ; Heb., 

 rnuth, math. 



197. To separate ; mas ; Arb., maza. 



198. To strike upon, extend to ; mau, (mawa) ; Heb., 

 mahhah. 



199. To chew; ma; Sam., mama; My., mamah; Syr. ; 

 mahha, to bite. 



200. To rub ; ma ; Heb., mahhah. 



201. A hollow ; mele, (const.) ; Heb., mehillah. 



202. Who ? Ero., me ? Heb., mi ?; (pi.) Ero., me ume ? 

 Heb., mi wami ?; Who ? (sing.). My., mana ? Syr., man ? 



203. Feeble, soft ; malua ; Sam., malu, (Ef, malilua. Sam., 

 malulu) ; Arb., malihh. 



204. To flee, (slip, glide away) ; mila ; Heb., malahh. 



205. To cut off, clear ; mal ; Heb., mall : hence the Po. 

 malae or marae, (familiar to the readers of Cook, &c), the 

 open (clear) public place of the village; in Ef. mala or 

 malla (or malel). 



206. A beam ; nerou ; Syr., niroa. 



207. Short ; mwit ; Heb., ma'at, to be diminished. 



208. A covering ; mwit ; Heb., ma'ateh. 



209. Treachery, perfidy ; mal ; Heb., ma'al. 



210. Above (Ef. dialect); mahil; Heb., ma'al : (ayin here 

 represented by h). 



211. To be angry ; maieto ; Arb., ma'idda. 



212. A hollow, cave ; m5ru; Heb., me'arah ; (Ef. const., 

 merite) ; Heb., me'arath : Ef. pi., moruta (name of a valley 

 full of caves) ; Heb., me'aroth. 



213. To come ; masa ; Eth., maza. 



214. A gathering together, company ; mikau (mikawa) ; 

 Heb., miqeweh. 



