Chase.] 22 [February. 



navan, L. novem, nine; At. enanapetasits, Gr. evvsa; Gb. pu, Che, 

 pucoli, Bl. kipua, ten. I have elsewhere* suggested the affinity of S. 

 catur and C. cat ur, doubled (wo; analogues to cat are found in Ak. 

 citu, the whole, Ar. cia, again, Dk. ici, together, ocitkogza, equal ; ur 

 is equivalent to Le. af, second; catif & tsutore may, therefore, be rea- 

 sonably regarded as the precise equivalents of Oriental cat ur. 



There are some anomalies, for which I have been unable to hit 

 upon any explanation that entirely satisfies me. E. g. Sh. nok, one, 

 Bl. nok, three; Sha. nisvi, two, Ch. nisvi, three, Bl. nisvi, four; Dk. 

 zaptag, Os. s&i^, five, S. saptan, Ir. tsata, C. tsat, tfat, seven. The 

 analogies may probably be best accounted for by roots signifying divi- 

 sion or sequence. 



If Ip. and Yu. sin, Co. sem, C. sam, are, as seems very probable, al- 

 lied to S. sam, Gr. auv, L. sumo, con, cum, Hm. sm, to gather, we can 

 trace some very interesting resemblances to the monumental Egyp- 

 tian or Hamitic numerals. E. g. 



One. Hm. ua, uot; Dk. wag; Ak. wan; Tm. wana^; L. unus; 

 Po. ngot. 



Two. Hm. snau, sente; H. fne, fnim; Gb. sa^. The root Cn in 

 some of the Shemitic dialects is modified into On or trn, as in Ab. 

 id'nain, CI. tren, Sy. trin (compare Tm. rendu? L. semi?). 



Three. Hm. /ament, ;j;'amet;f Ip., Yu. ;^amoq; C. sam; Gb. ta^ 

 (Cn. q'qlon? Ap. t'he?); Le. na/a; Mn. nameni; Dk. yarani. The 

 above-noted Shemitic equivalence of f and tr, may account for the 

 Aryan form tri. 



Four. Hm. ftu, ftou; Che. ufto; Os. toba. Bunsen suggests that 

 ftu may be derived from 1 + 3. From Vesperian analogy, as well 

 as from the Hm. forms for five and seven, I suspect that f is another 

 form of the root of division, vi (compare L. findo). 



Five. Hm. tu, tiu (a division?). Compare C. woo, Wy. uvif, 

 five; Che. tuclu, ^MJo; Sy. trin, ^z«o; y^\. inniZ, five. 



Six. Hm. sou, so {second ox fiolloioingf). Compare C, CI. suy; 

 Dk. fakpi, S. faf, H. fef, six; L. sex, secundus. 



Seven. Hm. sa;^f, sa;ffe, /asfi; Dk. fakowig; H. febaj Go. sibun 

 Hb. foct. 



Eight. Hm. ;j^men, ;^meni (second three)) H. fmnah. See 

 Three. 



* Chinese and Indu-Euro^iean Boots and Analogues, p. 2, and ante v. 

 VIII, p. 11. 



f ^ inclining to f. 



