Brinton.] *^ [Oct. 17, 



Alive, ixij, Aguacateca, itzin, Tzendal, c'uxul. 

 Old. mocM, Maya, noixib, Tzotzil mo'ol. 



Colors. The names of all the colors differ totally from the Maya. They 

 appear to have a generic suffix, aii, appended to the radicals 



mo, white. teu, red. 



sim, black. tot, yellow. 



me, blue or green. 



The word m,eelati for yellow is probably a mistake, and the identifica- 

 tion of blue and green is common in the radicals of most Central Amer- 

 ican tongues as I have elsewhere pointed out (The Names of the Gods 

 in the Kiehe Myths, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1881). 



For comparison I add the Maj^a radicals for colors, as presented in 

 the Kiche dialect. 



2ak, white. caTc, red. 



gek, black. gan, yellow. 



rax, blue or green. 



It is evident that there is not the slightest relationship, and they 

 are equally remote from the Pipil and Aztec color names. 

 Numerals. The numerals indicate few and faint similarities to any of the 

 other Central American or Southern Mexican languages with which I 

 have compared them ; ica, one, is like Mangue tica, and the four first 

 may be compared with the Lenca of Honduras as follows : 



XiNCA. Lenca 

 1. ica, ita. 



8. piar, pe. 



3. uala, lagua. 



4. jiria, aria. 



But I regard this as accidental, as it is not borne out by the re- 

 mainder of the Lenca vocabulary, in four dialects, which I have 

 brought into comparison. 



The termination ar in the Jalapa dialect reminds one of the suffix 

 unal, indicating turn or repetition, found in the Ixil numerals, a 

 rather pure Maya dialect, thus : 



ungvual, onetime. 



cavual, two times, 



ox ual, three times, etc. 



God. tiuix. Gavarrete appends the note to this word : "It does not 

 properly signify God, but image or idol. At present it is applied to 

 the images of the saints." It is probably from the Cakchiquel tioh, 

 great, divine, a word employed in a religious sense. This indicates 

 the origin of their ancient cult. 



The number five, puj-ar, is clearly the noun puj, hand, and refers 

 to the five fingers. ^ 



