"24 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



with the article : that is, the sole difference between them 

 is, that in the final part of this compound word the former 

 have ua, 2, without, the latter have it with the article. 



So Yanikoro temhi (for semhi), Taneanu and Fenua 

 Galaia timhi (for simhi), Malay dialect toufou, Arm duhem, 

 Tanema rouonhi (for lumbi), Tembora kumha, 7, all have 

 the same word, ua, for 2, as bi, he, ha, in the final part of 

 this compound word, without the prefixed article. 



5. The word 6, Samoan ono, is o, 5, as in Api ora, and 

 no, 1, as in Api ra. Forster gives Friendly Islands vano, 6, 

 where va (for ona, 5), as in valu, varu, 8. And both 

 Samoan no and Api ra are phonetic variations of sa, 1, as 

 also is the ta in Paama hitai, 6, Gilolo huianga, Tembora 

 hata-in, and the to in New Guinea (Amberbaki) ehetoe, and 

 the (final) ra in Ternati rara, Tidore rora, and the second 

 lo in Pelew lolom, malong, and I in Caroline hoi, and no in 

 Bugis onong, 6. In the Laman dialect of Api we have 

 saka, 1, and oraka, 6. In Malagasy eni-na, and Malay 

 ana-m, the finals na and m are emphatics (see § 2, 2, 8), 

 and eni and (X?ia are identical with Samoan ono, Tongan 

 (above) vano. That the ni of eni, na of a^ia, no of otio, is 

 for sa, 1, by the change of s to ?2., compare New Ireland Ion 

 with Ambrym Use, luse, 6. 



6. It only remains to explain Malay tuju, delapan or 

 ■ salapan, and samhilan, 7, 8, 9. We have seen, above, I and 

 s, for instance, in sw^/, lifiti, used as articles with the 

 Oceanic numerals. 



In Malay tuju, 7, the initial t is either this s or I, probably 

 the s : in that case tuju is for sudu (Madagascar sidda, titou), 

 for sum-duwa (Tarnati tomdi, Tidore tumodi), as Ambrym 

 luru is for lim-rua. See above (3), Api tshua for (tua)lua. 



Malay delapan, 8, is for delima-n. Compare Salibabo 

 delima, 5 (see § 2, 5). The n stands for the I of tolu, 3, by 

 the change of I to n. That this is so compare Savu panu, 8 

 (tanu, 3), where panu is manifestly the common Oceanic 

 varu, 8. In Atshin (Sumatra) we have lappan, for 

 laman, 8. 



Faru, 8, is for ma-lu, Easter Island and Friendly Islands 

 varoo, Papua (N. G.) war, Lombok halu, Caroline wal, 

 wan, Tarawan oanu ; Gilolo itupangi (for itumani) ; in 

 -Kayan saya, Fenua Galaia ta, all that remains of the words 

 for " five-three " is in the one case aya, in the other a 

 attached to the article s (t), and even this is equalled by 

 Harar sut, for which see below, § 13, 3. 



