[442] Ib., p. 471.
[443] See also Taylor’s Early History of Mankind, p. 284.
[444] Systems of Consanguinity, etc., loc. cit., pp. 451, 482.
[445] Missionary Herald, 1853, p. 90.
[446] Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. xvii.
[447] Pandects, lib. xxxviii, title x. De gradibus, et ad finibus et nominibus eorum: and Institutes of Justinian, lib. iii, title vi. De gradibus cognationem.
[448] Our term aunt is from amita, and uncle from avunculus. Avus, grandfather, gives avunculus by adding the diminutive. It therefore signifies a ‘little grandfather.’ Matertera is supposed to be derived from mater and altera, = another mother.
[449] Herrera’s Hist. of Amer., i, 216, 218, 348.
[450] The Rotuman is herein for the first time published. It was worked out by the Rev. John Osborn, Wesleyan missionary at Rotuma, and procured and forwarded to the author by the Rev. Lorimer Fison, of Sydney, Australia.
[451] a as in ale; ä as a in father; ă as a in at; ǐ as i in it; ŭ as oo in food.