60 SISSANO. 
61. natu child. 
REFERENCES: Melanesische Wanderstrasse, 107@. Ray, 485:25. Polynesian 
Wanderings, 198. 
POLYNESIAN. 
nati ‘Tahiti. ati Samoa, Maori, Tahiti, Mangareva, 
ngati Maori, Mangaia, Paumotu. Marquesas. 
etu) Rapanui. 
MELANESIAN. 
1. natu Tobadi, Sissano, Lihir, Laur, | 1o. netin Malekula. 
Nokon, Gazelle Peninsula, | 11. netei Volow. 
Bissapu. 12. nten Motlav. 
2. natu Tami, Szeak-Bagili, Alu, | 13. nat Mouk, Bauung, Ngamat, 
Awa, Barriai, Motu, Si- Kung, Tsoi, Lamassa, 
naugoro, Suau, Sariba, Tu- Duke of York, Pala, Moa- 
betube, Panaieti, Dobu, nus. 
Tavara, Awalama, Tau- | 14. a nat Petat. 
pota, Wedau, Galavi, Bo- | 15. fa-nat Lamassa. 
niki, Mukawa, Kubiri, Ra- | 16. not Paluan, Lou. 
qa, Kiviri, Oiun, Gog, | 17. natugi Omba, Mosin. 
Baravon, Lambell, Waga- | 18. natui Maewo, Mota. 
waga. 19. nitui Arag. 
3. natdin Tumleo, Lakon. 20. notui Vuras. 
4. natting Kung. 21. nutu Efaté, King, Lamassa. 
5. naku Pokau, Doura, Kabadi. 22. ngatu Manam. 
6. nahu Roro, Hula. 23. ngaunga Mekeo. 
7. nau Keapara, Galoma. 24. latu Jabim, Kiriwina. 
8. nati Bissapu, Merlav, Efaté, Bier- | 25. att Bukaua. 
ian, Omba, Makura. 26. ati Efaté. 
9. anati Malekula. 27. tu Vitu, Matupi. 
In my dictionary of Rapanui I expressed considerable doubt as 
to the association of etu with this stem. The added material 
placed at hand removes that objection and, far from doubting etu, 
I now regard it as an important memorial of the Proto-Samoan migra- 
tion thus preserved in a distant backwater of the most remote Poly- 
nesian peopling. This comports with my belief that the origin of 
the swarm which peopled Easter Island was in Samoa at the time of 
the hostile advance of the later Tongafiti swarm out of Indonesia. 
Four forms in this series, 3 natin, 10 netin, 12 nten, and 4 nating, suggest 
a final consonant in the archetypal stem. ‘The variety of the second 
vowel is important, and from the parallelism of the forms in i along 
with those in uit appears that the divarication must have come early 
in the life of the word. Forms in u are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, T7yteseeee 
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27; forms in i are 8, 9, 10, 26. Forms in e, 11 
and 12, are regarded as variants upon the i base. ‘The initial n is 
very constant: the ng mutation, a particularly common one in Oceanic 
languages, appears only in 22 ngatu, a form which parallels the Maori 
ngati variant upon the nati base. If 23 ngaunga be admitted to asso- 
ciation with this stem, and this will need further evidence to protect 
a t-ng mutation, it will provide a second instance of n—ng mutation; 
24 latu exhibits the not unfamiliar n—-1 mutation, one of peculiar 
interest as proving that n is not yet so firmly seated in consonantal 
value as to avoid recession to the more primitive liquid of its lingual 
