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reduplicated. The Malo dai-ca is ‘blood,’ dai with adjective ter- 
mination, ca. The same word is in Baki 72e-k7i, a kind of purple. 
Eromanga navilara is from vila, ‘lightning.’ Aneityum cap is. 
‘fire,’ but there is also tanana, formed like memea from tan, ‘red 
earth.’ Tanna ervarev is the ‘red glow of sunset,’ which as ravi- 
ravt, afiaft is a common word in Oceania for ‘evening.’ Cf. Jel. 
Lang. p. 87. [See rts. ma, me, ka, ra, and ravi, in Note No. 1.] 
79. White—Vuti or vusi is the common word, which is also in 
Malagasy and Malay Archipelago. With prefix ma, this is Omba 
ma-vuti, Malekula me-vus, embusa, Epi mi-wowo, mi-ubu; Efate tare 
is properly ‘clean, pure,’ Omba ma-sara, ‘clean.’ Malo duly is 
Torres Island lui, ‘white,’ Mota ‘fair.’ Santo voke is Pangkumu 
vogvog, ‘clean,’ Mota woke, ‘an albino.’ The Maewo sigara, 
Samoa sinasina, is from a root meaning ‘shine,’ in Fiji, s¢ga ‘sun,’ 
sigasigau, ‘white,’ Sesake ma-sina, ‘moon.’ Cf. Mel. Lang. p. 97. 
[Sk. valaksha, ‘white,’ Dr. vel, Slavonic velt, Hungarian vilag,. 
‘light’; another rt. is pw (ba), ‘shine,’ g.v.] 
80. Black—The word maeto, seen in Arag, Santo, and Malekula,, 
is very widely spread, and is also in Malagasy and Malay. In 
Efate, Sesake, maeto is ‘angry.’ The Fiji Joais in Nguna. Malo. 
urica is ‘skin colour’ (uri ‘skin,’ ca the adjective termination). 
This suggests the Polynesian uwr7 as ‘skin,’ but skins are not black 
in Polynesia. Cf. po-uri, ‘dark.’ Aneityum apigq is also used for 
‘night,’ as is the Mota silsilig‘a for ‘dark.’ Mele kele-kele is ‘dirty,’ 
kele, ‘earth.’ Maewo oso-oso is 0-0, ‘cloud,’ in Nogogu; soso, ‘dirt,’ 
in Fiji. Cf. Mel. Lang. p. 57. 
[‘ Black’ is often ‘burnt’ (cf. the name Ham); hence ma-eta,. 
‘uli, &c. may come from rts. ma, ka; see Note 1; Sk. kala, ‘black.’| 
81. Holy—The word tapu, which is also Polynesian properly, 
means ‘prohibited, set apart,’ and is found in Aneityum, Eromanga, 
Efate, Malo, and Tangoa, and also in the Arag sa-pu with adjec- 
tive termination. The Pangkumu wkon may be Malo ducu, Santo 
ruku, Maewo rogorogo, Mota rogo, and the meaning is ‘sacred.’ 
82. See—There is no doubt a great variety of terms for ‘see,’ 
and all may not have exactly the same meaning. An example 
