356 JOHN FRASER. 
Grief—l. sughul ; 2. soko. 
House—1. gadong ; 2. kuti. 
Man—1. jantan; 2. tanayo, ‘a son’; ef. (Samoan) tane, ‘a 
man, a male’; tama, ‘a boy, a child’; tama, ‘a father.’ 
Mankind—1. manush ; 2. manavo. 
Month—1. bulan ; 2. maso, masam ; cf. (Samoan) masina. 
Moon—1. bulan ; 2. ma; cf. (Samoan) masina, ‘moon,’ ma, 
‘pure, clean’; (Sanskrit) masa, ‘moon’; bhasm, ‘shining’; 
bha, ‘to shine.’ 
Oriyin—1. pangkal ; 2. pakati. 
Pure—\. stichi; 2. sujjhati. 
Salt—l. garam; 2. kharo, ‘salt’; cf (Duke of York Island) 
karagap, ‘acrid.’ 
Sand—l. pasir; 2. vannu; cf. (Samoan) one (for vone ?). 
Sharp (acid)—1. asam; 2. kasavo, ‘sharp,’ kasati, ‘to shine.’ 
Shine—1. kilu; 2. viro; cf. (Samoan) ‘ila ‘ila. 
Speak—l. kata; 2. katheti. 
Speech—l. bhasa; 2. bhasa, katha; cf (Ebudan) bisa, fasao. 
Stand—l. tegga ; 2. thamam, tthati; cf (Samoan) tu. 
Take (away)—1. ambel ; 2. abbhati. 
Voice—l. bhana; 2. vani, ‘voice,’ vadati, ‘speak.’ 
Willing—l. sudi; 2. sadiyati. 
With—1. sama; 2. ama; cf (Samoan) ma. 
Besides the Samoan parallels which are noted in this list, there 
are numerous simple words in Samoan which are evidently of 
Aryan descent. In many cases their lineage is disguised by the 
euphonic peculiarities of the Samoan language, and so it would. 
be a long labour to examine them fully ; a few, however, may be 
noticed. In Samoan, /olaw means ‘a voyage,’ and ‘to sail’ (to a 
distance). This is obviously the Malay ‘boat,’ praw; therefore, 
it is said, the Polynesians have borrowed folau from the Malays. 
But behind prau are the Sanskrit root-words, plu, plavé, ‘float,’ 
‘sail,’ plavas, ‘a boat,’ the Greek pled, ploos, and many Aryan 
cognates. 
The Samoan sw means ‘wet,’ ‘waxy’ (said of ‘taro’), swa is 
‘juice,’ ‘liquid,’ sudsusw is ‘milk,’ susu, as a verb, means ‘to suck 
