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85. Know—A representative of the Fiji fla, Mota g‘ilala, is 
seen in Maewo g‘ig‘tlea, Ambrym kelea, Bieri ki/1, Eromanga kili, 
The Aulua lise-mbosa is ‘see-speak,’ Tangoa rogo-bosa, ‘hear-speak.’ 
The atae of Efate, etc., is in Mele ¢aea, and in Lifu ate, and is also 
in South Cape (New Guinea) ata, and Ponape (Caroline Islands) 
aja. Arag ilo, Omba ilotlo is ‘see’ in Mota, Efate, etc. 
[Cf ‘See’; cognate is ‘know’; ef. Lat. vid-eo, Gr. oid-a. | 
86. Barter, Buy, Sell—The common Oceanic word is voli. This 
is seen in Epi and the Northern languages of the New Hebrides. 
There is an interesting correspondence of idiom in the word used 
in the Southern languages and Polynesia. In Aneityum and in 
Tanna, ava and vahai are causative prefixes, the same as faka, fa‘a 
in Futuna, Aniwa and Samoa. The second part of the compound 
is the ordinary word in use for ‘eye,’ nimtan, namri, mata, but 
used as a verb. Hence aua-nimtam, faka-mata, etc., mean ‘to cause 
any one to eye.’ The same idiom is found in New Britain (Ralu- 
ana district) wa-mat, ‘to sell, offer for sale.’ In the Duke of York 
Island mata is ‘price,’ in Florida (Solomon Islands) mate. In 
Efate, Nguna, Sesake, the first part of the compound is also the 
causative. Nguna ¢ovi is ‘distribute,’ Futuna tufa, Aniwa tufwa, 
‘give out,’ Samoan tufa. 
[Some of these words mean ‘to exchange’; ¢f. Tukiok we-kelei. | 
87. Hut—All the dialects have some form of kani or kai. Pang- 
kumu /anz is restricted to the eating of cooked food, roz is ‘to eat 
raw food.’ Ambrym drog is perhaps the same as roz. [See ‘food.’] 
88. Drink—The common word is mwnz in various forms, and 
often with the transitive suffix gi. Jnw is also found. 
[Rt. ma, mi, ‘water,’ g.v. Cf. Lat. bi-bo, Gr. pi-no. Oceanic 
inu (for mi-nu) perhaps gives niu, ‘cocoanut,’ by metathesis. | 
89. Dig—aAll the words found are forms of kali, except Futuna 
vere, which is Fiji were, ‘a garden,’ were-dha, ‘to garden,’ dig up 
weeds, etc. 
90. Bury—The Polynesian tanu, with transitive suffix, is seen 
in Tanna, Eromanga, Efate, and Malo. The original meaning is 
