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6th. In Maori, the past participle is forroed by adding tia, ria, kia, etc., to 

 the verb, resembling the similar terminations in English, German, Latin, etc., 

 in d, t, atus, etus, etc. 



7th. In Maori, ordinal numerals axe formed by prefixing to the cardinals 

 tua, which originally, no donbt, meant mmnber (from the same root as tdtau, 

 to count), as proved by its equivalent in Samoan, toa, meaning also in that 

 dialect, number. 



In Sanskrit, ordinals are formed by affixing the superlative foi-m tama, or 

 modifications of it, to the cardinals. The same principle is observed in the 

 other Indo-European languages, as — Greek to, Latin tu, Gothic and Anglo- 

 Saxon ta, and English th. Now, as the superlative degree really carries the 

 essential idea of number, it is very probable that the Sanskrit tama and the 

 other forms adduced were originally derived from a root signifying number ; 

 very likely the identical one from which the Maori tua and Samoan toa are 

 derived. 



These are the principal jioints. Many more minor ones might be brought 

 forward, but the doing so would take too much space. 



The Maori, I believe, will be found upon examination also to contain many 

 old EgyjDtian and Arabic words, and I think it is a mistake to class it as 

 belonging to the Turanian group of languages. It is rather a mixture of the 

 Indo-European and Semitic. 



The very name Maori points most significantly to the stock from which the 

 race has been derived. This idea first struck me about seven years ago, and a 

 friend of mine lately, without knowing the fact, stated that some time back 

 the same thought had also occurred, to him. Lately, after reading books of 

 ancient travels, voyages, etc., I am almost confirmed in the opinion that the 

 names Maori of New Zealand, Mori-ori of the Chatham Islands, Ilalay (moi-e 

 properly Mala.%), etc., etc., are but modifications of the same word as Moor in 

 English, and the Mauri of the Romans ; — those Mauri Avho carried into Spain 

 the words like Maoi-i, quoted in Thovipsons Story of New Zealand. 



I am not quite sure, but I believe that the name Malay is supposed to be 

 connected with Malacca. But I tliink Malacca, or Malaka, simply means 

 east. Mcorangai m^eans east in Maori, named so, no doubt, from its being the 

 quarter of the sun's rismg^dranga means rising, and mardnga means to arise ; 

 this would be joronounced mardka in some paints of New Zealand, almost 

 identical with the name of the Malayan Peniiisula. The Maori is the same 

 fierce cross between the Arab and Ethiopian that the Moor was, with a 

 further modification in the shape of the ancient Persian element. 



Philologists have been puzzled to account for the name Moors being applied 

 to the languages of the southern coasts of Asia, but I believe the true 

 explanation is the foregoing one, and that there has been nothing arbitrary in 

 the matter. It is simply the voice of tradition that has been followed. 



