MELANESIAN ANNOTATIONS ON THE VOCABULARY. 1 
MELANESIAN. 
1. tama Efaté, Mota, Duke of York, | 15. daman  Subanu. 
Buka, Baravon, Neggela, | 16. dama Jabim, Bukaua, Tami. 
Laur, King, Sesake, Malo, | 17. hama Roro. 
Bierian, Tangoan Santo, | 18. ’ama Ulawa, Wango, Uni. 
Arag, Vaturanga, Bugotu, | 19. ama saa, Bululaha, Wagawaga, 
Motu, Sinaugoro, Rubi, Mekeo, Hula, Keapara, 
Suau, Sariba, Tubetube, Galoma, Tavara, Awalama, 
Panaieti, Misima, Nada, ‘Taupota, Wedau. 
Murua, Kiriwina, Dobu, | 20. wama Fagani. 
Mukawa, Kubiri, Raga, | 21. kama Pokau, Doura. 
Kiviri, Barriai, Kobe, Ja- | 22. rama Tagula. 
bim. 23. karama_ Baki. 
2. tama Pala. 24. tata Malekula, Tangoan Santo. 
3. tamaa_ Redscar Bay (N. G.). 25. Chacha WNengone. 
4. tama-ge Kilenge, Maleu. 26. dada Raqa. 
5. tama-gn Barriai. 27. ma Neggao, Lo. 
6. tamai Mota. 28. mama Mota, Omba, Gog, Alite, 
7. tamam Manam. New Georgia, Koita, Motu. 
8. tame Oiun. 29. mamai__— Boniki, Galavi. 
g. tema Efaté. 30. mam Merlav, Lakon, Pak, Sasar, 
Io. etma Aneityum. Vuras, Mosin, Alo Tegel, 
11. temi Eromanga. . Motlav, Volow, Norbar- 
12. tima Santo. bar, Rumba. 
13. timi(n) Tanna. 31. nam Panaieti, Misima. 
14. tumai Nifilole. 
Through 19 items of variant forms this orderly series is convincing, 
for the mutations are of the most frequent and best-established types. 
In 10 etma we have no difficulty in noting the influence of metathesis 
upon the next preceding form. The aspirated form 17 hama is not 
extraserial mutation, for I have already established that the aspira- 
tion is triple, at least in its incidence, and that an aspiration lies proxi- 
mate to each consonantal series. Particular interest attaches to 20 
wama. ‘This is found within a group of languages which have attained 
the ama form by the method of frontal abrasion. It seems that the 
w in wama represents the stage of transition between an initial t and 
its extinction, a ghost of a remembrance that there was originally 
some sort of consonant there, a function which may well be performed 
by the obscure semivowel w. We may interpret 21 kama in terms 
of the kappation of t, which is so frequent in eastern regions of the 
Pacific. The mutation t-r is sufficiently well established to account 
for 22 rama. ‘This may serve to establish 23 karama, in which the 
form occurs with some sort of prefix; though the two points are widely 
separated, they are, in my interpretation of migration movement, 
associable as ports along the Viti Stream from Indonesia to Melanesia 
by way of Torres Straits. A group of three forms, 24-26, seems to 
involve the abrasion of the final syllable of tama and the duplication 
of the former; those linguists of a school not yet wholly inactive, who 
seek to find the origin of infant speech in instinct, might employ the 
argument from dada, which our infants share with the savages of 
Raqa, except for the fact that this same series shows in 28 mama a far 
more extended employment of a name for father which in the infancy 
