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7 nUich- tives of a^ua — W. dur^ duvr — C. dour — A. dour 



milchin, _j -r' i_T^j_ t;fc— Fr. eau—\%. ^^— Lap. 



8 moch- , -J^ ■, ^ ; » ,- • r I ■ 



milchin, hetze — Ca. vra. Modern Aliatic are -.—Ju^ Jia, 



9 chonat-^ y^./-!„/^ ^c. among the Turks and feveral Tar- 

 10 nSr tar nations, to which the Chinefe chiie may 



ki. " be related — Ma. ?7mke — C. M. ufu — Li. in'u — 

 Pe. nab — Ma), aijer: — in diverfe large northern diftri6T:s 

 feverai diftui£t families with refpedive dialedls ; ulhia : 

 uth: u\ ytb — loo — kinfi : J chin : tzyn — gadar — mimil — uhl: 

 cu : kuhl — i£oe. Modern African are \—moihe an extenfivc 

 Arabian with feveral variations — among the negroes, tiub 

 — itchi — inftio — with the Hottentots kannna, and others. 

 Modern American: — in the north, bij — hih — 'mbi — 'iiky 

 — nippe — ?nbl — nocpe — noop — iinipe : empye — oneegha — och- 



?ieca — hohnekah caneegj — chabauan — orenpeoc — -fandoo- 



Jlea : tfandoojleek awoo : a-zu'wa : auiveau : auwen okah 



: ookka : okaiv — ommah — ammah : ama — meneh — wewa — 

 ejau: — in the fouth, atle — atl — attc — ad — ro — ko — ha — 

 ig — iinuy — doolah — touna : fona. 



Obfolete European \\'ords are : — As. ea — Ir. an — ean — 

 C. g'itif- — S'^yf — If- dovar — eajk — eajkong — gil — byal—fual 

 — bcathra — bir — b'lor — oixc — lo — lua. Some of thefe are 

 not referable to any of the modern j others are not to Eu- 

 ropean, but Aliatic and American. 



The 



* See Voyages en Gu'mee, &c. par Paul Evdman Ifert, tranflated from the 

 German, printed at Paris 1793. The author gives a fmall colleftion of 

 words in tliree languages, which, though within a circle oi 20 Danilli 

 (about ijo Englilh) miles, differ not lefs than the French and German. 

 They call fire la — egia — dio : eve, hinme — vannua — onoku : head, hbu — oln 

 — Ota : arm, iiindJ) — ofu : hlh, loL — agunnialla : teeth, hgennedy — vijfe — ad:i ; 

 belly, mujfii — vafnu — drrnitne. 



See Thunbergs travels 2d vol. In a fmall fample are this word, num- 

 bers till 10, &c. They have a pretty fufficient language that varies in dia- 

 lects, and has curious claps or fmacks, ciental, palatine, and giittural. See 

 alio Kolbe, and Spa!Tm;iu. 



