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mean a nephew or niece, or a grandchild. Iam disposed to see in 
these terms the same word as the Aztec tetelpuch, which appears to 
mean “ the offspring of somebody,” or “ of a person,” for tetech, which 
in composition becomes tetel, denotes personality. The Aztec puch 
offspring, would thus be the same as the Basque ba, and mut. That 
the mut of mutil corresponds with the mus of the Japanese musuko, 
appears from the comparison of another Basque word of similar form, 
mutchitu, mouldy. This answers to the Japanese equivalent museta, 
as mutil does to musuko. The Aztec word for mouldy is poxcauhqui, 
and, although there can be no connection between mustiness and off- 
spring, answers in form to puch, as mutchitu to mutil and museta to 
musuko. ‘The ba of dloba is but an abbreviated form of puch, such 
as appears in the Aino po, the Yeniseian pwwo, and the Circassian 
ippa. The Basque word for child is nerabea, norhabe, which connects 
with nor, norbait, somebody, just as the LooChoo worradi, also mean- 
ing child, shows its relation to waru, the Japanese aru, likewise de- 
noting “somebody.” It appears therefore that ‘‘somebody’s wean ” 
is a thoroughly Khitan conception. In Georgian, boshi which may 
be taken as the root word, means “ child,” and in Lesghian vashsho. 
But the Aino vas-asso and bog-otcht seem to be compound terms, like 
the Choctaw poos-koos and the Dacotah wah-cheesh and bak-katte. 
Similar forms are the Iroquois wocca-naune, and the inverted Muys- 
can guasgua-fucha. The abbreviation of boshi or puch to ba, be or bi, 
asin the Basque and LooChoo, finds its parallel in the Yeniseian 
dul-bo, a doubly apocopated tetel-puch. The Yuma hail-jit seems 
almost to reproduce the Basque form, which inverted would read 
il-mut. One of the Sonora dialects, as we have seen, gives te-machi 
for boy ; one of the Iroquois, chiha-wog ; the Choctaw, chop-pootche ; 
and the Shoshonese, ah-pats. In the Old World, the Corean fur- 
nishes tung-poki ; the Kamtchatdale, kamsanapatch, a long form as 
in the Dacotah menarkbetse ; and the Yeniseian, pigge-dulb and bikh- 
jal. But the Yeniseian and Kamtchatdale also designate a son by 
the simple word for offspring, bit, and petsch in the respective 
languages. In the Georgian, Circassian, and Peruvian Aymara, this 
simple form seems to be reserved for the girls, for daughter in these 
languages is bozo, pchu, and ppucha. The Aztec prefixes to the word 
offspring puch, one of its terms denoting woman, female, the whole 
being teich-puch. This is the tshide-petch of the Kamtchatdale, and, 
with inversion of parts, the bai-taga of the Yukahiri. Other corres- 
