140 THE SUBANU. 
63. pepelo a lie; Subanu balos id. 
These may properly be associated for the present, although affil- 
iates are nowhere to be found. ‘The Proto-Samoan stem we find to be 
pelong in Samoan pelongia of the objective aspect; therefore we may not 
make the identification with balos positive in the absence of transition 
forms, but it warrants consideration. 
64. pili lizard; Visayan tabili a large newt. 
pili Samoa, Futuna. | bili Tonga. 
We find this stem narrowly restricted to Nuclear Polynesia. The 
Visayan is evidently a composite upon the same stem. In alimango 
(item 6) we have a still more noteworthy instance of the community of 
animal names between these widely sundered regions. 
65. po night, calendar day; Subanu labong yesterday, lalabong after- 
noon, P. W. 330. 
po Samoa, Fakaofo, Niué, Uvea, Fo- | boni Rotuma. 
tuna, Tahiti, Manahiki, Futuna, | mbongi Viti. 
Maori, Hawaii, Mangaia, Mar- 
quesas, Mangareva, Rapanui, | bungi Java, Salayer. 
Nukuoro, Paumotu, Nuguria, | bo-etta Macassar. 
Sikaiana. po-garagara Teor. 
pongis Samoa. caha—pon Visayan. 
pongi Samoa, Nukuoro. bangi Macassar. 
ko-po Aniwa. bengi Minahassa. 
popo Bukabuka. wengi Minahassa. 
bo Tonga, Nuguria, Sikaiana. 
We have no difficulty in tracing successive stages of this vocable 
from po to pong to pongi to pongis. ‘These are all found in Polynesia, 
in Indonesia we lack pongis. In this fullest form the stem has the 
appearance of a composite; we are not able to resolve it accurately, yet 
there is some reason to regard po as primal in the sense of dark. 
66. punga coral; Visayan apog lime. 
punga Samoa, Futuna, Niué, Rapanui, | pua Tahiti, Paumotu. 
Mangareva, Maori. bunga ‘Tonga. 
puna Hawaii, Marquesas. vunga Viti. 
puka Marquesas. 
The form variety is easily disposed of. We recognize in these 
southern Philippine languages the employment of a (ca) prefixed in the 
sense of a noun determinant; the mutation from nasal to mute in the 
palatal series is exhibited in one of the Marquesan forms. ‘The sense 
may readily be brought into harmony; these peoples had long since 
known the art of obtaining lime by burning the coral; in Hawaii, 
Rapanui, and Niué the same word does duty for the raw material and 
for the product. 
