Note 53 — LECTURE II. The Origin and Contents of Primitive Religions.
Reading edition
Codrington in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., vol. x., p. 279; Fornander, The Polynesian Race, vol. iii., pp. 225-7. In some dialects mana has the special meanings, omen; the thunder; the breath; the belly (i.e., the interior), etc. Hale gives the definition “power” as common to all dialects (Polynesian Lexicon, s. v.). Fornander notes the similarity to Sanscrit, mana, manu, mind, thought.