10 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



The Verbal Suffix. 



Fate, k Heb., Arabic, Ethiopic, As- 



Mail., k Syrian, Syriac, k, ka 



Paama, k 



Aneiteum, euc Mod.. Syriac, uk 



Fate, ko (for kan ; cf. 



Malay, kau) is plural 



for singular 



I give the following in this person alone, and in the 

 singular : — 



The Emphatic Possessive. 



Eromangan, arika Ethiopic, eliaka 



Samoan, lau (laka-u) 



Eromangan, eteko Mod. Syriac, diuk 



Maori, tau (taka-u) 



Tanna, seik Ethiopic, ziaka 



Samoan, sau (saka-u) 



All these prefixes are originally demonstratives, and all 

 these words mean this or wJi.at (is) of thee, thine. 



The Suffix with a Preposition. 

 Eromangan, huka, To thee Hebrew, heka, To thee 



21. The Plural, Ye. 



(Note. — The majority of Oceanic dialects have the plural 

 with ending u (tau, kau, to, ko) in use for the singular (cf. 

 English you), and the plural with ending m in use for the 

 plural. The Malagasy having ceased to retain the m, 

 suffixes reo (these), to distinguish the plural used for ye 

 from that used for you.) 



The Separate Pronoun. 



Tanna (Weasisi),'ii^ama, or Hebrew, attem 

 ituma Arabic, antum 



Aneiteum, aijaua Mod. Arabic, antu 



Api, tau 

 And k for t 



Malay, kamu Ethiopic, antemu 



Fate, kumu (Hebrew, attem) 



Fate, aka7n 



Fate, nikam 



Negrito, St. Matheo, hicamu 



