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THE SUBANU. 
12. fafine woman; Visayan babayé id. P. W. 337. 
fine Tonga, Uvea, Aniwa, Fotuna. winih Java. 
hine Maori, Rapanui. maho-weni Sanguir. 
ahine Nukuoro, Mangareva, Rapanui. | pin Mysot, Waigiou. 
hoina Rotuma (metathetic upon | bin Waigiou. 
ohina) bini Malay. 
aine Mangareva. bina Ceram. 
fafine Samoa, Tonga, Fakaofo, Futuna, | binei Gah. 
Uvea, Sikaiana, Efaté, Moiki. | benaing  Silong. 
fafini Liueniua. babineh  Salibabo. 
fefine Tonga, Nukuoro. pipina Saparua. 
fifine Niué. pepina Ceram. 
vahine Tahiti, Manahiki, Marquesas, | bahini Madura. 
Paumotu. bawine Bouton. 
wahine Maori, Hawaii. baini Salayer 
oahine Tongarewa. banie Macassar. 
vehine Marquesas. mahina Liang, Morella, Lariko, Awaiya, 
vaine Rarotonga, Tubuai, Bukabuka. Caimarian, Ceram. 
veine Mangareva. mewina Teor. 
mafine Samoa. mainai  Batumerah. 
mahine ‘Tahiti. mapin Gani. 
mohine Paumotu, Mangareva. umbinei Cajeli. 
tafine Aniwa. ihina Teluti. 
tahine Nuguria. gefineh Wayapo. 
libun Subanu. 
fineh Massaratty. babai Ilocano. 
fina Sulu. fafayi Bontoc Igorot, 
vina Ahtiago. vavy Malagasy. 
Appropriately varium et in a high degree semper mutabile such sense 
as may subsist in this vocable struggles forth into the most complicated 
expression. The Polynesian discloses to us a primal stem fine existing 
independently and inaddition qualified by the formative elements a, fa, 
ma, ta prefixed. Interpreting fine as a diffuse attributive carrying the 
signification of femininity, we have shown (items 6 and 8) that the use 
of a exhibits in afine a specification of noun use. In its proper place in 
this series we shall find that the ma prefix is of practically the same 
value, that mafine particularizes the person who is characterized by the 
possession of the quality which fine expresses. So with tafine, which 
does not appreciably differ in signification; we do not regard ta as a 
mutation product of ma, against which militates the difference in series, 
but we do find in it a parallel and independent mechanism for the 
expression of this differentiation, in which connection note the paral- 
lelism of Subanu mopong and Visayan topong in the vocabulary. Inthe 
Malay archipelago we find the remnant of the primal stem of more 
frequent occurrence than in Polynesia and within that province widely 
distributed. The fafine type in Malaysia is so closely interassociated 
that we may distinguish it as a Celebes type, therefore central in respect 
of the province. The mafine type is similarly interassociated east of 
the Celebes form; we may delimit it as a Ceram type. While Subanu 
libun is widely apart from all types, we must recognize in its bun some 
association with the stem fine. At the end we find a small group very 
difficult of inclusion in this fine series; babai of Ilocano and Visayan 
babayé are closely associated, and with them must be joined Malagasy 
