MELANESIAN ANNOTATIONS ON THE VOCAB 
MELANESIAN. 
er: 1 Suau. 19. angi Mekeo. 
2. e’ai Dobu. 20. ean Barriai. 
3. kai Sariba. 21. aan Nufoor. 
4. kaina Aniwa. 22. an Panaieti. 
5. qai Mugula. 23. ana Roro. 
6. kani Tubetube, Galavi, Boniki, | 24. anan Misima. 
Mukawa, Oba, Marina, | 25. a Oiun. 
Epi, Sesake, Efaté. 26. hani Keapara. 
7. kan Kilenge. 27. lani Kelana. 
8. kanega Tagula. 28. hanahana Ulawa. 
9. gani Rook Island, Sinaugoro, |-29. ghen Lifu. 
Mahaga. 30. hang Aneityum. 
10. g’ani Omba, Arag. 31. eng Jabim. 
II. gania Rubi. 32. ing Jabim. 
12. ganigani Galoma. 33. vanga Neggela. 
13. gan Tami. 34. kam Kiriwina, Galavi, Mukawa. 
14. gaan Solor. 35. kom Kiriwina. 
15. gangan Malo. 36. qam Murua. 
16. nganngan Arag. 37. am Tavara, Taupota, Wedau, 
17. gad Nada. Kwagila, Raga, Kiviri. 
18. ani Roro, Uni, Pokau, Kabadi, | 38. ni Tanna. 
Motu, Hula, Tavara, | 39. nenini Eromanga. 
Awalama, Taupota, We- | 40. kaka Nengone. 
dau, Ninigo. 41. balu Kubiri. 
42. ki New Caledonia. 
Two stems are clearly present in this collection, ai and ani, each 
of which has undergone such consonantal modulation as we have 
already seen in the first of these note items, and the latter extends 
through a long series of demolition forms which we could not associate 
with the ani stem if it were not that we find successive disintegration 
stages set out in an orderly array. ‘The items 38-42 and ate of Rotuma 
I regard as extraneous to these two stems. It may be that ni (38) 
and the associable Eromanga word derive from ani quite as much as 
does an (22) and a (25); but the examination of the material shows 
that ni represents a different principle effective upon the ani stem. 
We have abundant confirmation of the demolition applied to the final 
in ani—an—a, but 38 and 39 are the only instances which at all suggest 
that the final syllable remains strong and that the weakening appears 
in the initial syllable. The items 40-42 are wholly remote from any 
possibility of association with the two stems of this series. 
STEM ai. 
This is the common word throughout Polynesia in both migration 
waves. It has been assumed into the Beach-la-Mar jargon as kaikai 
and thus has received a wider currency which might lead to error in 
interpretation of its presence in languages where it is not reasonably 
to be expected. In Melanesia it is found in five stations of observa- 
tion, four of which cluster about the southeast cape of New Guinea. 
Especial note should be made of the Aniwa kaina (4). Although 
this island is included within the New Hebrides, its population and 
speech are largely Polynesian, and in general I include it within that 
speech family. Its kaina is a transition form between Polynesian 
kai and Viti kana, and the association of the latter with kani will 
appear in the examination of that stem. The ai stem is not complete; 
