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people, spite of its dialectic peculiarities, will enable the philologist 
to shed light on many points of etymology and construction in the 
languages of Europe and Asia to which it is related. Take, for in- 
stance, the world totolh-tet/, an egg. Its meaning is clear, for totolh is 
tototl a fowl, and tet/ denotes a stone. By a simple postposition of 
the nominative, therefore, the Aztec word for egg means the stone of 
the bird. In Yukahirian the word used is nonton-daul. Now nonda 
means a bird in Yukahirian, a form doubtless of the Lesghian onotsh, 
and the Japanese ondori, a fowl ; but daul, which is just the Aztec 
tetl, does not now designate a stone in that language. The form has 
undergone change and is now ke//, but there can be no doubt that 
daul or tol was once the Yukahirian name for stone, as it now is the 
Mizjeji, Corean and Choctaw form. The Basque word, which I have 
not found any explanation of among the Basque etymologists, is 
arrolchia or arroltz. Here the order of the Aztec and the Yukahir- 
ian is inverted, for awrri denotes a stone, and ollo or ot/o, a fowl. The 
tinal chi or zi before the article a, is the mark of the genitive which 
is now aco or eco. Hence, literally translated, arrolchia is “ stone 
fowl of the.” The Iroquois has entirely lost the etymology of his 
word onhonchia, in which the Basque r and / have been replaced by 
n; and the same is the case with the Peruvian, who, by following his 
usual practice, hke the Lesghian, of removing the initial vowel, and 
simply changing the / to n, makes the word rwnto. The Circassian 
kutarr is probably of the same composition, for kuté should represent 
kuttey, fowl, and arr, though not now a Circassian word, was so at 
the time when Circassians and Basques were one people, and derived 
their respective tribal and local names, Chapsuch and Guipuzcoa, 
from the Hittite land of Khupuscai. It is interesting to note, as 
exhibiting the vicissitudes of language, that the Corean, who calls a 
stone tol or tor, retains arr, the primitive term, to denote an egg, 
just as the Aztecs frequently employed fet/ to express the same with- 
out any prefix. 
There is a Basque word, the derivation of which puzzles the lexi- 
cographers, although some have ventured to derive the only Basque 
term denoting a boy from tlie Latin. It is muéz/, or with the article 
mutilla. In Lesghian, motshi is a boy, in Japanese, muswko, in 
Sonoro, te-machi ; but, as a rule, the m of these languages is replaced 
in others of the Khitan family by an ordinary labial. A similar 
difficulty in Basque attends the connected word illvba, which may 
