50 SISSANO. 
30. hua Motu. 37. alén Bauung, Ngamat, Bagail, 
31. wuran Namatote. Majum, Lossuk, Avelus, 
32. wula_ , Maewo. Mongai. 
33. wol Vuras, Motlav, Volow, Mo- | 38. ulén Kung, Tsoi. 
sin. 39. Glin Limba, Langanie. 
34. Wui Rubi. 40. mitra  ‘Tatau. 
35. uran Utanata, Karufa. 41. ola Ambrym. 
36. lang Nayama-Panaras. 42. é€ngdling Tegarot. 
The Polynesian series is of much greater extent than is here offered, 
but in the main the use of the stem in designation of the moon has 
yielded to the later term masina. ‘The basic signification of the stem 
fulan is that of shining or emitting a bright light. This theme will 
be found discussed at length in ‘“The Polynesian Wanderings’ and 
needs no attention in this place. In the Melanesian series the sense 
is wholly that of the moon as the shining body. ‘The final consonant 
remains in 1, 14-17, 27, 28, 3I, 35, 37-39, and with a facile mutation 
to ng in 36 and possibly in 42. ‘The initial consonant runs the whole 
series of possible mutations in the labial series. The u vowel is 
remarkably permanent; we find mutation to o in 11, 25, 33, 41, and 
possibly in 42; in 17 flén we assume its extinction, a most unusual 
case involving the bringing together of two consonants. The second 
consonant exhibits great persistence as I-r; in 13 bu it has finished 
by final abrasion from 9 bul; in 12 bue, and in 30 hua, and in 34 wui 
it has somewhat anomalously dropped out from between the two 
vowels and the loss is not to be explained as a final abrasion. In 8 
buia, in 23 vuia, and in 29 huia we find in a restricted group of lan- 
guages in Papua reported by Ray the mutation 1-i; this is rare in all the 
material which we have set under review in other and more compre- 
hensive work upon these tongues, but the principle is by no means unfa- 
miliar in modern European languages. ‘The changes which the second 
vowel undergoes offer nothing of note. In 42 we have ngoling, a form 
of doubtful association with this stem. We could give it room with- 
out difficulty if it were possible to comprehend a mutation p-ng; we 
do not find this exactly, but the precisely similar f-ng seems to be 
involved in the case of (Polynesian Wanderings, 271)— 
Samoan fia Vaturanga ngisa Nggao ngiha 
It is therefore possible to admit this form. 
37. daman father. 
REFERENCES: Melanesische Wanderstrasse, 141:158. Ray, 488:46. Polynesian 
Wanderings, 272. Subanu, 144. 
POLYNESIAN. 
tama Samoa, Fakaofo. tamana Futuna, Sikaiana, Fotuna, Nugu- 
tama Aniwa, Viti. ria, Nukuoro. 
tamai Tonga, Uvea. _| taman Kapingamarangi. 
