Brinton.] ^t)4 [Sept. IS, 



must be generic for " human being," preceded by an element indi- 

 cating sex, emu {emo, umu, ';«//, uma, itn) for the masculine, and 

 ue {ui, aue) for the feminine. These have analogies in neighbor- 

 ing stocks. The words for boy and girl, given above, are the same 

 as for man and woman, with a suffixed in, indicating diminutive 

 size {di'im =ddh-m). 



Sun, Moon. — Mr. Granger does not give the word for moon, but 

 other vocabularies show that it is the same as for sun, edau, the dis- 

 tinction being made by adding night, or some such term. This is 

 common in American languages. The similarity between the 

 words for sun and fire is accidental, and is not borne out by other 

 dialects of the stock. 



Water. — The word given daugh (otherwise do) properly means 

 "river." The Choco word for water in general ispania. 



Tongue. — Other vocabularies give mcuhina. 



Foot. — Another vocabulary gives bo-pidi. The first syllable is 

 evidently identical. 



Day, Night. — Evidently compounds, the second element dowwah 

 or darrah being the same, the prefixes ass and eh (or probably ehd') 

 distinguishing the concepts. The latter seems to be the same as in 

 ehdow, sun or moon. 



Sea. — This is the usual Choco word, puscha. 



Canoe. — The Choco term is hampua, of which happakah is prob- 

 ably a variant. 



The words given for hot, cold, fish, are those not found in my 

 vocabularies of other dialects. They may be synonyms or bor- 

 rowed expressions. 



The numerals, as given by Mr. Granger, are : 



The system is evidently vigesimal ; orrmon-ambah = one twenty, 

 20 X 1 J orrmon-noome, 20 X 2, etc. In the usual Choco it is 

 quinary, as iua soma, 5 ; ome jua soma, 2 X 5 = 10 ; guimane Jua 

 soma, 4 X 5 ^ 20, etc. 



