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tu, two. 



tuelf, t-svelre. 



tuente, twenty. 



tuli^ tulih, turiJi, iron. Crawford (Grammar and Dictionary'fcf tlie 



Malay language, p. clxxv.) says ttiat tuli, tudi, turi is 



probably the English word "tool." 

 turik-aruhi (d), a white man. From turilc, iron, ariili, man. 

 Tusde, Tuesday. 

 tusi (s), book. Samoan tmi, lit. to mai'k native cloth, hence writing, 



letter, book. Introduced into Lifu from Samoa. 



Uviau-lago (s), tomb, lit. lago, house, umau, of the dead. 



Vina, wine. 

 vinega, vinegar, 



TFaci, watch. Tliis is the English word spelled in Lifu fashion, 



c = ck in chin. 

 waina, wine, vine. 

 wali, European cloth or calico ; icali denied, a curtain or veil, lit. 



shutting cloth. 

 ican, one. 



Wensd'e, Wednesday. 

 werkah (m), happy, blessed. Perhaps fi'om wer, appetite in sense of 



desiiing, wishing, kah, to dance. 

 wik, week. 



Zogo, holy, lit. a charm or fetish ; zogo-jiauicali, Holy Scripture ; 

 zogo-le, a priest ; zogo meta, a church. 



When the introduced word differs in pronunciation from its 

 English original, such as numela, viasita, the alteration is due to Lifu 

 influence, as the natives of Torres Straits have no difficulty in 

 correctly pronouncing such words as numher or master. Lifu and 

 Samoan require every consonant to be followed by a vowel, and hence 

 the modification of the English and Greek words introduced by the 

 Lifuan teachers. 



In the detection and derivation of Lifu words we have derived 

 much assistance from the Eev. J. Sleigh, for many years resident on 

 Lifu. 



