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Appendix. 





Malaoasi. 



JIalay. 





English, 





Truth 



to 



tunto (certain) 





Trees 



hazo 



— 



rakau, Maoi'i 



Thousand 



arivo 



saribu 



afe, Tongan 



This 



ity 



ini 



koini, Tongan 



These 



tr^'to 



itu (thoae) 





Thou 



hiano 



angkau 





Teach 



mampianatra 



— 





To-day 



anio hiany 



ini hari 



inaianei, Maori 



Toddy 



toaka 



tuwak 





Teeth 



nif, nifo 





niho, Maori ; nifo, Tongan ; ni/oa, 

 Matabello ; ni/in, Teor ; nlo, Bapa- 

 rua 



Worm 



kankana 



— 



ngunu, Maori 





olitra 



ulat 





Wink 



py 



— 





Way 



aleha 



alam.a,n 



ara, Maori ; hala, Tongan 



Waves 



alona 



lomba 



gnalu, Tongan 



Work 



asa 



gara 





Write 



soratra 



surat 





White 



fotsy 



puti 



hoti, Sula and two others ; umpoti, 

 Cajeli ; maphuti, Matabello 



Washing 



sasa 



basa 





Wages 



tamby 



— 





Weft 



tenona 



tanun 





Walk 



mande/ia 



— 



eva, Tongan ; malaha, Kissa 



Water 



rano 



, 



manu, Bouton ; oira, Kissa 



Woman 



vehivavy 



. — 



wahine, Maori ; vina, Ahtiago ; fele 





pisafe 





lara, Matabello 



Wise 



hendry 



— 





Wonderful 



mahagaga 



maha (great) 

 gaga (mighty) 



maliaro, Maori 



Wet 



lena 



— 





Whisper 



bitsikia 



bisik 





Wind 



rivotra 



ribut 





Yams 



ovi 



ubi 



uwhihcbho, Maori ; ufi, Tongan ; uioi, 

 Kissa 



Year 



taona 



taun 



tau, Maori and Tongan. 



Having thus completed the Glossarial branch of the inquiiy in as far as 

 materials and space will allow, I now proceed to the second bi'anch, viz., the 

 Idiomatic, and in this I will pursue the same course as in the other', viz., from 

 New Zealand north and westward, making the Malay language the link of 

 comparison, it being the representative one amongst many others at the west 

 end of the Indian Archipelago and best known to Europeans, and consequently 

 best illustrated in literature. First, then, we commence with Maori and 

 Malay, as follows : — 



IDIOMATIC COMPARISON. 



Maori. Malay. 



The alphabet is composed of thirteen let- When Eoman characters are used the 



ters, viz. , five vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and eight alphabet is composed of twen.ty-one letters, 



consonants — k, k, m, n, p, r, t, lu. The viz. , five vowels and eighteen consonants — 



New Zealanders had no literature before i.e., counting 7i soft and A hard a8_sej)arate 



the advent of Europeans. consonants. 



A great portion of both languages can be traced to monosyllables and dissyllables, 

 some consisting of the root only, and others of a root and a prefixed syllable. 



