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In other words, although the identity of the radicals exists, it is 

 not visible in the forms presented. Thus, in Wallace's vocabulary 

 both "sun " and " moon" are rendered by ?^/)>^, which is the Be- 

 toya ?/(^(?, sky, heaven. 



Domi, 7iomio, "woman," is really a compound of the Betoya 

 feminine ro, female, and oni, or uma, " man " (homo), as is easily 

 seen in the Tama romeo. 



Very few analogies are visible to the Tapuya (Ges) dialects, to 

 which the Tucano has usually been assigned. The only one of 

 importance is the word for ^xe, pckhdmi (Tuc), pdhgd (Jauna), 

 which appears to be the Botocudo pek. 



