44 
just well, I eatum jus’ little fellow bit. 
246. 
tail belong him just like oar. R 118. 
kaikai, kai this stem is pure Polynesian; in 
my studies of Melanesian speech 
(The Polynesian Wanderings, Ap- 
pendix I, item 46) I have found it 
in but three languages of that 
province, Mabuiagin Torres Straits, 
Sariba and Suau on the Papuan 
shore, and this is the waterway 
through which swept the southern 
stream of the earliest Polynesian 
migration out of the Malay Archi- 
pelago. ‘The strictly Melanesian 
word in the same sense, to eat, is 
kant or some easily recognizable 
variant. The Polynesian kai was 
acquired by white men in their long 
acquaintance with the central and 
eastern Pacific and by them im- 
pressed upon the islanders of the 
western chains. It was reported 
from New Zealand in 1815 by 
Nicholas. 
noun: food, meat, eating. 
here no kaikai. SG ro. 
he plenty good kaikai one fellow man. 
G 212, Se 614. 
small fellow clam kaikai he stop. L 
360. 
my belly no got kaikai: to be hungry. 
253. 
big fellow kaikai plenty too much. 
HW 1309. 
verb. 
1. to eat. 
suppose me kaikai pig me die. SG 
121. 
he kaikai you if he get chance. Wa 
152. 
he kaikai along me. L 361. 
kaikai meat along butcher. R 108. 
2. to be eaten. 
when kaikai he fight. Ror. 
kalass glass, mirror. SG 27. 
kanaka natives of the islands. This is pure 
Polynesian and impressed upon the 
Melanesians by the white voyagers. 
In Polynesian the word is tangata, 
it is only in Hawaiian that the 
dialectic variation produces the 
form kanaka. From this we are 
warranted in drawing the conclu- 
sion that the word came into sailor 
English aboard the whaleships, for 
Honolulu was their principal port 
for refitting after the voyages in 
search of the cachalot and before 
setting north in pursuit of the 
right whale. 
me fraid belong kanaka. § 127. 
keep he keep a bee there. G 243. 
no speak out, keep himinside. V 254. 
BEACH-LA-MAR. 
kiab master. Local to the Bismarck Archi- 
pelago. 
you sabe too much, kiab. Sg 25, 60, 
124. 
kiaman to tell lies. Local to the Bismarck 
Archipelago. 
all he kiaman. SG 121. 
kiau egg. New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula. 
kill 
1.to beat. Re 114. 
suppose you killum kanaka one time 
he sore, suppose you killum killum 
plenty too much mebbe he die 
finish. 
2. to kill. 
yes, I killum all right. G 215, 232. 
3. to die. 
he full up blood he kill him. Se 563. 
(A penalty of eating a tabu body, the 
blood rises up into the sinner’s 
throat and he dies therefrom.) 
kind 
he savy that another kind: to know 
better. Se 623. 
another kind of: different. V 252. 
he feel another kind inside: to change 
the mind. V 252. 
knife W 386. See go-to-hell. 
know he know he come. W 349. 
kumara the Polynesian name for the 
sweet potato. 
lady what name lady he makicry? SG 27. 
land land he come up. SG 30. 
laugh bymby all men laugh along that boy. 
Se 567. 
he plenty laugh. G 207. 
lazy me too much lazy. SG2o9. 
suppose he lazy he hit him a little 
fellow. W 349. 
learn to teach. 
best thing you learn us. V 254. 
leg leg you got in one fellow box. G 260. 
let he no take him, let another fellow_man 
take him. Se 444. 
let go heart: to covet. V 253. 
let go: to release. V 253. 
like adverb. 
tail belong him just like oar. 
wail like hell. Rai15. 
like milk inside. R ror. 
color like curry. R95. 
they fright like hell. L 363. 
strong like stone. V 252. 
like brother. V 253. 
like verb. 
he no like that work. W 349, SG 29, 
60. 
me like him two rifle. L 361. 
you like me proper: to love. V 253. 
what name you nolike’m me? L 363. 
he like kill you me. S127. 
me like too much: to love. 
has be 
R 118. 
V 253, 
