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ponding Khitan forms for girl, daughter, are the Circassian pzs-pa, 
the Yeniseian bikhyalju, the Koriak gna-fiku and goe-behkak, the 
Kamtchatdale wchtshi-petch, the Corean bao-zie, and the Japanese 
musu-me ; and, in America, the Paduca or Shoshonese wya-pichi, the 
Dacotah weet-achnony, and the Iroquois kawnuh-wukh and echrojeha- 
wak. The Basque word for girl, ala-ba, ala-bichi, is in harmony with 
illoba, nerabea, and the inverted mut-illa, and corresponds with the 
Yeniseian bikhyalja. Besides these more conspicuous forms there are 
many others which exhibit a common formation. Among the Yuma 
words denoting boy, and the equivalents of hail-pit in other dialects, 
occur her-mai and yle-mot, in which the Basque mut and Japanese 
musu are abbreviated into mai and moi. Of the same structure are 
the Peruvian Quichua hwar-ma and the Circassian ar-ps. Two other 
words for boy, the Japanese bo-san, and the Araucanian bo-twm, be- 
long to the same category ; and there are many other forms, such as 
the Adahi talla-hache, in which the labial of boshi or pach has been 
converted into an aspirate, to which I need refer no farther. The 
Aztec tetel-puch and teich-puch are the types of the many terms men- 
tioned, which exhibit the singular agreement, with phonetic varia- 
tions, of the Khitan languages in the formation of these compounds. 
A very common element in compound Aztee words is palli, which, 
besides denoting colour as in ya-palli, black, and qutl-palli, green, 
appears to have the meaning of “ contents, belonging to,” just as the 
Japanese iro means colour, and iru, to hold or contain. So in 
Basque, ba/ isa root denoting colour in the abstract, and bar, a cor- 
responding root signifying contents. In Aztec tenzxi-palli means lip, 
but its derivation is only apparent in Japanese, in which language 
the word for lip is kuchi-biru. Now kuchi is the mouth, and biru is 
the original of ww, to hold, contain orenter. The Aztec tenxi does 
not appear in the dictionaries asa word for mouth, camatl being the 
term employed ; but the related Shoshonese family furnishes atongin, 
tungin, and the Adahi, tenanat. The Circassian lip is uku-fari, 
plainly the same word as the Japanese and Aztec, although wku is 
not the present Circassian term for mouth. The Corean form is 
tipsi-oor, in which ipsi represents the Corean ipkoo, the mouth, and 
oor, the Japanese tru or buru. So also the Natchez adds ev to heche 
the mouth, and calls the lip ehec-er. The Araucanian, from a primi- 
tive word ia, like the Dacotah ea, the Yuma yw, the Circassian je, 7a, 
the Corean vi and the Basque aho, all meaning mouth, forms, with 
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