Historical Linguistics and Language Families 3, Exercise 2: Polynesian sets Position in "two" (lua / rua / lua): Samoan l : Maori r : Hawaiian l set l : r : l (Tongan ua has no consonant there in the data given) Position in "three" (tolu / toru / kolu): the middle consonant: Tongan l : Samoan l : Maori r : Hawaiian l the first consonant: t : t : t : k (Hawaiian k against t elsewhere, which the source gives as its example) Maori r corresponds regularly to l in Samoan and Hawaiian. Because the match appears in both words, it is a correspondence set, not a coincidence. The source states only the Hawaiian k : t set explicitly; the l : r : l sets are read off the same table by the same method (my work, not quoted).