202 BEINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. [Oct. 7, 



has long been extinct and no specimen of it seems to have been 

 preserved. 



At the time I wrote there was not a word positively identified as 

 of this stock ; and I must say the same now in spite of Lafone Que- 

 vedo's interesting essay (iii). 



From various writers he collects the following as probably de- 

 rived from the Cacana tongue : 



■a, or -auy or -ao, village, a locative termination. 



-aquin, ruler, chief. 



caylle^ a serpent-like tracing on copper, an amulet. 



•CO, termination meaning water, or watery. 



-cocavi, pounded maize. 



etija misajo, « bad head;" perhaps, enjam, head. 



is, good, aco, not (Mataco, isajia, " not good "). 



gasta, village, a locative termination. 



hi, fire, light. 



vil, locative termination. 



y, his, their, pronominal suffix. 



Of these words, the frequent termination gasta I believe, in spite 

 of the opinion of von Tschudi,^ is the Quechua llacta, in a Spanish 

 corruption ', and -a, or ao, resembles much the Quechuan locative 

 termination aui. The word cocavi, cooked or prepared maize, 

 reminds one of the Quechua chucuca, which means the same. The 

 idol or tracing of a serpent, caylle, may well have been that of the 

 old or big serpent, machii kay, of the Quechuas.^ 



Again, the title with which the Indians of Calchaqui saluted the 

 impostor, Inca Pedro Chamijo, was, according to Lozano, iitaqiii?i, 

 from which aquin in the above list is taken. But this is pure 

 Quechua, as Holguin gives chapaqquen as '^ Seilor de Indios."^ 



There is not sufficient evidence that this list offers any Cacana 



1 Von Tschudi, in Verha7id. der Berliner Anthrop. Gesellschaft, 1885, p. 184. 

 A proof that it is from Quechua is that the same corruption is found in Chile, for 

 instance, Antofagasta. I have discussed this question at some length in my 

 Studies in South Airierican Native La}7gnages, pp. 54, 55 (Philadelphia, 1892). 



2 See Holguin, Vocabulario de la Lengua Qquichtta, s. v. " Culebra " and 

 " Serpiente." Ambrosetti also is inclined to regard this symbol as of Peruvian 

 origin, representing the lightning snake and connected with the rains. See his 

 article, " El Simbolo de la Serpiente en la Alfareria funeraria de la region Cal- 

 chaqui," Bol, Inst. Geog. Argentino, 1896, pp. 219 sq. 



^Elsewhere (xii, Sec. 12) Lafone Quevedo says, " Yo siempre he atribuido el 

 mismo origen etnico-linguistico a los Cacanes, Lules de Barcena y Guaycuru- 

 Abipones." 



