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67. pupula to shine; Subanu bulan moon, month. P. W. 329. 
pupula Niué. huia Doura. 
vula Viti. hua Motu. 
hula Rotuma. uran Karufa, Utanata. 
pura Angadi, Mimika. pulan Chamorro. 
pul Umre, Leut. pula Uap. 
bura Lakahia. bulan Malay, Ilocano, Subanu. 
bulo Uni. bolan Visayan. 
bol Leng. bulang Tringanu. 
mbul Moanus. bula Kaili. 
buia Umi. buran Ceram. 
bue Keapara, Galoma. burang Solor. 
furan Lobo, Mairassis. bulam Molucca. 
fule Graget. fulan Aru. 
vula Neggela, Belaga, Marina, Arag, | fula Rotti. 
Mota, Vaturanga, Bugotu, | furan Lobo. 
Pokau. funan ‘Timor. 
vule Omba. fuya Togean. 
vuia Pokau. fiian Bontoc Igorot. 
vul Merlav, Gog, Lakon. wulan  Géilolo, Solor. 
wula Maewo. wura Bima. 
wuran Namatote. huran Ceram. 
wol Vuras, Mosin, Motlav, Volow. ulan Magindano. 
wui Rubi. ulang' Kisa. 
hura Wango. ulano Ceram. 
' The primal sense is that of shining, more particularly of a white 
light, a sense which predominates in the Polynesian of each migration. 
In the Pacific at present the moon word is masina, a conditional of sina 
white. That pulan is the earlier word is exhibited by the completeness 
of its series out of the Malay seas through Melanesia and into Nuclear 
Polynesia. 
68. pusi to puff; Subanu boi to fire a gun. 
pusi Futuna. 
puhi Niué, Maori, Hawaii, Marquesas, | busi Efaté. 
Mangareva, Rapanui, Pau- | vus Mota. 
motu. ia 
pupuhi Uvea, Tahiti. ambus Malay. 
pupui Rarotonga. bohi Visayan. 
bubuhi Tonga. boi Subanu. 
The Subanu signification is a particular and, of course, a modern 
one. ‘The general sense of blowing and puffing runs through all these 
affiliates and occurs in Polynesian of each migration; the identifications 
in Efaté and Mota show that it accompanied the Proto-Samoans in 
their earlier wandering down through the Melanesian chains. 
69. sala to err; Subanu sala id. 
sala Samoa, Futuna. 
hala Tonga, Niué, Uvea. sala Tagalog, Subanu, Visayan. 
dhala Viti. salah Malay. 
hara Rapanui, Marquesas, Tahiti, Maori. | hala Malagasy, Kayan, Java, Kisa. 
ara Mangareva, Rarotonga. 
Students of comparative morality may find a certain interest in the 
evidence borne by this word that the conviction of sin was not intro- 
duced by the missionaries. Even primitive savages have recognized 
that to wander and to go astray from such standards as they had was a 
wandering of the soul, asin. The use of the word in the Maori is clear 
