136 ETHNOLOav OP THE INDO-PACTFTC rSLANDS. 



foiinil eitlior iti Australian or Dravirian languages, hut evitlently 

 belonging to the Draviro-Auslralian em of Asonesia and Ultrain- 

 dia, wbcn the rado Indo-AusLratian Iribct probabljr possessed some 

 hundreds of vocabularies, raore or lesg related to each other and 

 to those of the early Scvthie or proto-Scytbic tribes of Middle and 

 Western Asia and of Africa. In tlie present clasa of words we 

 find bai"hand/' Samoiode ii-bai ; pit*' car," Ugrian pi! ; karu- 

 Jfl, gcr-ij>, kowra &c. ''ear" (also Australian kure t&c.), korro 

 Fin, kuUaft Turkish or Ka?ia; mas, mash, niuchi "hair," 

 i-VTUsa Fin (lius Fazoglo) ; niit " Irp," Samoiede pite ; taip " lip," 

 Somoiede iip*r7i^| ney "tongue/' enya, inyi &c. Tungasian, 

 Jiyenie Saraoiede j pit, pichi nose, " Ugrian root pid (Chineae 

 pi &c,) The other Asoncsian languages have a basis of similar 

 archaic Scythic and Scylhtco- African terms, but the names 

 for the more common objccls, such as the above, have in gene- 

 ral been replaced by vocableg derived from the later intrusive 

 formations, Malagasy and TJltraindian. Both of these, and 

 especially the TJltraindian, being very Scythic in theii- glossariefl, 

 it is often doubtful by which current Scythic words found in Aso- 

 nesia were imported. With the Malagasy terms there is in gene- 

 ral less room for uncertainty, although the Malagasy and tha 

 Ultraiudiau varieties of Scythic roots sometimes closely resemble 

 each other. The chief difficulty is in distinguishing the archaic Dra- 

 virO'Aastralian from the more recent Ultralndian terms of Scythic 

 origin, and it is increased by the fact of Ultraindta having been tha 

 Una by which both of these Scytbic currents have flowed to the 

 islands. Tliere need eeldom be much bpaitatton in referring 

 Asonesian words with a well marked Dravirian, Malagasy, Tibe- 

 tan or Mon-Anara form to these Bou^c^JS respectively, but there are 



"eye*' e-t»rfl "we/' ka-»Mra.ny "belly," yanfl^o^pZa "feeth," wum-ra- 

 ra-ble face." In TBamanift w flnd kurc-nierang " tong:ae," pm-vram " tooth " 

 t/WM-wam, jmangi " I[n»," tcnn-dini, iwan-daJ, cose", iar-am *• fiice," pol-im. 

 " hair" ; in New H(-UtiJ(», loara-hng nose " barojtg " hair/' mflrrt-raa " eye *' 

 (Pol, *''rt-brun " breflat," koni-prian " knee" : in Toro wari-hu •* hair," 



fiar-ia "nose"; ia New lalantl pr« lenhck, pata-lmntii "cax," bra Wnm 

 "haml," tfl?fflrt-keke " font," pdMmlik " ahouhler" ; in WaSifui im/ft-pine 

 *• liand," *' bra-min "arm," enom-6rofW ''liair" i iu JJore "6ra-Hma hand," 

 iFra-ioiin "arm," san^un bari "iiecK," sf^imm-bur^em *'hftir," Bnota-&*W " nme " 

 SA-bur " eye laahea," krum-6m " back/' hmn-beri " head Sec" ; in AustraljEiii 

 iHitung^ ka-d>«ra &c *'head," rae-fcrtmi, m^-bara, mil kc "eye/' tuai^biti 

 tpding &c "ISpa/' murti " nose" (ka-WKni Celebes;, ta-'i/uira, triara, mura, 

 &*r-il " hand," wa-para, ma-/Mi/, ugtt-mem;, biri, hiring &c " breaat/' kc. ite. 



