Ixiv 



Appendix. 



English. 



Maori. 



Malay. 



Remarks. 



Age 



tau 



tua 



by transposition of vowels 



Argue 



totdhe 



tutur 



to commune. Vowels conver- 

 tible 



Artist 



tohunga, 



tolcung 



Malay has no sufl&x 



Heap 



ahu 



apus 



covered 



To charge or rush 



amo 



amo 



to charge fiercely with bloody 

 intent 



Abundant 



nanea 



bane a 





To collect 



puhangaiti 



pungut 





To boast 



whaka ranga ranga 



bekan garang 



to simulate boldness 



These 



enei 



anu 





Demigod 



atua 



antu 



spirits 



Hail 



whatu 



batn 



literally — stone ; hail in Malay 

 being called hatu ujan, or 

 stone raia 



Country- 



whenua 



benua 





Thirsty 



wheinu 



na-minum 





On referring to Crawfurd's investigation of this subject, it will be seen that 

 he states (see Trans. N.Z. Inst., YoL TV., p. 28) that in a Maori dictionary of 

 5,500 words he found 107 that were Malay, i.e. one fifty-first part, or about 

 twenty to the 1,000. In the above list it will be seen that I have detected 

 235 Malay words in a Maori dictionary containing about 6,000, i.e., 

 one twenty-fifth part, or about thirty-nine words to the 1,000. I have no 

 doubt that a person familiar with both languages, instead of with only one, 

 would detect double the words that I have ; at the same time I must remark 

 that of the 235 words sixteen are compounds, and thus mere repetitions, but 

 this is also greatly the case with the dictionary itself, which goes a long 

 •way to swell its volume. The ratio I have given may therefore not be 

 considered unfair. 



In as far as I had opportunity to compare the glossaries thoughout, from 

 Madagascar to New Zealand, it is my opinion that Malay is nearer to Malagas! 

 than it is to Maori, and I may venture the suggestion that some of the 

 languages of the Molucca group or of Ceram — such as the Lariki or Ahtiago — 

 will be found very much nearer to Maori than Malay is. 



In looking over the above list it should be borne in mind that the 

 articulation of the Maori, as compared with Malay, is imperfect, the former 

 having only the following eight consonants, viz. : h, Jc, m, n, p, r, f, w. Thus 

 the greater comprehensiveness or elaboration of the Malay will be found in the 

 following comparison : — 



Malay ... api aku akhir ajar aras alau satu aier ikan 



Maori . . . ahi ahau ake ako ara aru atua wai ika 



Malay ... bulu idong mmwm kitchi biji bau ratus 



Maori ... huru ihu inu iti ihi mau rau 



Thus, in most instances, the causes of difference are to be seen in the imperfect 

 articulation in the Maori, or want of the required consonants to give the 

 words the full character, not in any radical divergence of sound. 



