128 THE SUBANU. 
have kakore, kakoe, aole, aore, aoe. We have already noted that Maori 
hore is anomalous; it continues so through its series; kahore is a com- 
pound of this third type, but ahore is beyond explanation, since the 
Maori is in general tenacious of the k. 
We shall now examine the Melanesian negative, a sad tangle at 
first view, but I am quite convinced that the following table will sug- 
gest the way toward a simple statement. 
(a) sa ta ka-re 
tate 
tat 
taho 
e he ‘Vite t— 
hete tehe 
teo 
i si-a ti 
di 
Here we have the e negative, the a negative which we have already 
met in kare and kakore, and in addition an 1 negative which may be 
primal or may be a mutation frome. ‘The languages comprised in this 
table are as follows: 
sa Marina, Saa, Bugotu. te Omba, Mota, Lakon, Arag, Deni. 
ta Motlav, Volow, Gog, Norbarbar. tehe Arag. 
tate Lo. teo Ngao. 
tat Lo. t- Motlav. 
taho Neggela. i Alo Tegel. 
kare Maewo. si-a Savo, Vaturanga. 
e Pak, Alo Tegel. ti Sesake, Efaté, Merlav. 
he Omba. di Sesake. 
hete Omba. 
Of the three Polynesian negatives in the first remove from primal 
e, namely sé, lé, t@, we find sé represented by sa, he and s7; té represented 
by ta, te, tt, and dz; lé is found in but the single instance of ka-re. In 
the compound forms here presented hete, tehe and tate are clearly deter- 
minant compounds of the grateful double negative type; tat comes from 
tate by terminal abrasion. In iaho and teo we readily segregate ta and 
te; the residual ho and o do not elsewhere appear as negatives, but they 
certainly suggest the ho of Maori ho-re and provide a primitive for the 
modulated ko of Rapanui and the general secondary type ko-re. 
We next encounter a group of composite negatives of the secondary 
type which are quite manifestly associable znier se and beyond Mela- 
nesia with the lea‘: of Samoan. ‘These will be shown in order in the 
following table. 
ai tagai 
gae tigai 
bwai 
pwai-ke 
hai—ke 
(a) aga iga 
taga 
tagar 
tga 
(i) tigi 
tig 
teji 
