IM ETHXOLuaV OF TBB 1 NBO^PACIFIC tSLANDf, 





Kol 



oa 



jj 



uraa 



ji 



ura 



Brahul 



li 



Lepclia 



h 





aru 



Champhung 



riang 



Siameae 



lehu 



Aru 



hale 



Si man g, Pol. 



sarin 



Lobo 



hari 



Polynesian 



ri 



Rot u ma [= Iia-t'i> ha-\e, sa-rin ] 



alaya 



Sansk, 



aula 



Latin 



arre 



DanakU 



ille 



Yorubft 



ire 



Japan 



mi 



Koriak 





Persian, " village " 



The slender South Dravirian ilj gFj is the Himalayan and Asone- 

 filan form J and as it is also Japanese and Afrtuan^ it is probably 

 one of llie prlraaiy Dravinan vocablus. The broad Tuda, Gond 

 and Kol form bas a stronger resemblance to the Indo-European, 

 hut is douhtlesa of equal antiquity with the olhor as a Dravirian 

 term, 



TUe Tamil vudu, uidu, Malayalam vida, Male ava and Changlo 

 phai, is found in tho Aaoncsian bahi Sulu. It is probably con- 

 nected with the Semitic but Gara, ut Curia Muria, bet Arab., beM 

 Hebrew, buiti Mahrah, abaita Egyptian, mitae Shaagalla, the 

 Gara having the Tamil, and the Himyarltic (Mahrah, Egyptian) 

 the Changlo forms of the uUiiiiate root (hu, be, bai, vi). The Viti 

 mbeto, Yanikoro haito are Semitic in form* The iablal ts com- 

 mon in Asoneaia under different forms uba, emu, ima, im &e. but 

 these may all be derivatives of uma, umo, &c., a contraction of 

 ruma, huma, rumo &;c. The Sunda inia, Mille ijn, Sydney my a, 

 have some claim to he considered as an independent root. The 

 Semitic vocahie is also Saraoiede, mat, matseh^ main, met (Arabic 



