152 SIDNEY H. RAY. 
wa, wa are the same. The Efate wofa is also ‘chief,’ perhaps the 
Fiji wate. 
[| Atmeh-gan is from ta-ma, by metathesis common in Aneityum. 
For soa, ‘companion,’ cf. Sk. sama, ‘together.’ Ta-ne is from fa, 
(see ‘male’), our mode of address to ‘father’ as ‘the man.’] 
55. Child—The common word is natu. Tasiko sisi, Nguna ririki, 
the Aniwa riki, Mae titi, Maori 2d (in ka-ririki, ta-riki, tama-ttt) 
are adjectives ‘little,’ fa being man, and tama the relationship 
between father and child—a word also used for ‘father.’ Cf. Mel. 
Lang. p. 63. 
56. Mother—There is apparently no common term. The words 
tete, tial, nina, nana, mama, inde are vocatives. Tina, ina, which 
are in Solomon Islands and New Guinea, appear in Aneityum, 
Tanna, Malo and Santo, and with the Efate bwzle, etc., may be 
connected with words for ‘belly, bowels.’ The plural prefix ra 
(upon which see Dr. Codrington, Mel. Lang. p. 83), appears in 
Aneityum, Tanna, Erakor, and Arag. Weasisi 7¢7 is also in Efate.* 
Cf. Mel. Lang. p. 83. . 
[Zina, sina are from ‘belly (q¢.v.), womb’; ef Maori tia, ‘abdo- 
men,’ Tasmanian tiana, ‘faeces.’ Ve-ve, mo-ma, and the fe-, va- of — 
the next column, ’are the same as in Lat. ma-ter, ‘the producer’; 
the Sk. rt. is bha (bhav), ‘to be, to come into being, to exist.’ 
Matua-wahine is ‘grown woman.’ | 
57. Woman, Female—The common Oceanic word vavine or fine 
is found in the North and in Epi. Tangoa g‘arai is Efate gorod. 
Pangkumu navseven is Eromanga nasiven. Cf. Mel. Lang. p. 98. 
58. Wife—This word is frequently the same as that for husband 
(see note on 54). In other cases it is the word for ‘woman.’ 
Cf. Mel. Lang. p. 89. | 
59. Chief—The words are usually distinct. The Tangoa supe, 
Tasikosupwe,is Nguna supwe,a word used in translations for ‘God.’ 
The same word is in Banks’ Island swkpwe, as the name of a club 
* In one of the Efate dialects ert is ‘mother’—Macdonald, “‘ Oceania,” 
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