258 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : a Discovery. 



their variety as actually found in Oceania, and to show that 

 they are Shemitic. One or two examples will indicate this : 

 Bird — Cocos Island, ufa; Tagala, ibow; Heb., 'of. Mg., 

 vurona ; My., vurong ; Heb., parahh, to fly. Ef., Api., Amb., 

 Mallicollo, to ; Heb., dah, to fly. Nest, ne kin ; Mg., a 

 kany ; Heb., qen, qin. 



Dog — Ef, kuri ; Maori, kuri ; Heb., Syr., gur, gura, a 

 whelp, puppy. 



Fish — Ef., Po., ika ; My., ikaw ; Heb., chayah, an animal ; 

 My., ikan-ayar, water animal. Like Mg., h.&z&-ndrano ; 

 Paama, New Hebrides, asa • Amharic^ assa. 



Water — Ef. (dialect), raw; Mg., drawo or rawo ; Arb., 

 viyon, watering. Ef., T&nu, to pour fresh water over 

 after a sea-bath ; Fiji., drawu id.; Fiji., drawo, a lake ; Ef., 

 ra, a lake or pool of fresh water. My., ayar; Java, er ; 

 Malo. (N.H ), reuh ; Heb., rawah (to be full of), water. Ef, 

 me (urine); Heb., Syr., me, id.; Ef, mua, to flow (the tide); 

 Heb., mua, to flow. 



Sea, salt — Ef, Sam., £asi ; sea ; Patos, asih ; My., £asi&, 

 literally the salt (water, i.e.) ; Mangarei, wae-tasik ; Ende, 

 ora-masi ; Java., ramc-masiw ; Mg., rawo-masiwa ; Asi, salt, 

 very widely used, from Syr., 'az, to boil forth : Like My., 

 garam ; Celebes and Tanna, gara, salt ; Heb., gir, to boil up. 

 And Mg., tsira ; Matabello, sira, salt ; Ef, sira (ferment) ; 

 Heb., sir ; to boil up. In Ef. salt is tas-men — i.e. the boiling 

 up, foam, or ferment of the sea, men ; Arb., yamon ; Am- 

 boyna, met, mit ; Syr., mata or ymata. Tagala, daga£ ; 

 Ero., tok ; sea ; Heb., daki, " crashing, dashing (of waves)." 

 Ef, lou or lau ; My., lau£ ; Bouru, ola£ ; Api, ela ; Arb., 

 *alla, to strike with repeated blows, &c. Celebes, lauduk, is a 

 combination of these last two words. 



Land ; fanua, vanua, benua, so widely used in Oceanica for 

 for district, country, is literally a house or building (a 

 dwelling-place); Heb., bcnmh, to build. In Santo it still 

 has this meaning. Ef, ure, land ; Ch., ara', (Heb., eretz). 



Eain, Mg., orawa. Celebes, uraw, waro ; Abyss., heri, iro ; 

 Heb., yoreh. 



Grammak. — It will now be well to go over the principal 

 points of grammar, and 



§1. Demonstrative pronouns meaning this (here), or that, or 

 simply calling attention to, or pointing out, or emphasising 

 a word, simple or compound, separate or attached to a word, 

 prefixed or postfixed — 



