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carora, gahnee in Cherokee ; dog cheeth Tuscarora, cheer Nottoway, 
keethlah, keira Cherokee ; Fire ocheeleh Mohawk, otcheere Tuscarora, 
cheela, cheera Cherokee ; man ttaatsin Minekussar, atseeai Cherokee; 
woman ekening Tuscarora, ageyung Cherokee ; boy doyato Huron, 
atsatsa Cherokee ; child yetyatsoywh Tuscarora, oostekuh Cherokee ; 
death guiheya Iroquois, choosa Cherokee ; face ookahsa Tuscarora, 
issokuh Cherokee ; father aihtaa Huron, tawta Cherokee ; mother 
nekets Tuscarora, akatchee Cherokee ; good ayawaste Huron, seoh- 
staqua Cherokee; girl yaweetseutho Wyandot, ayayutsa Cherokee ; 
mountain onondes Seneca, &ec., nawne Cherokee; tongue honacha 
Troquois, yahnohgah Cherokee ; water aouin Huron, ohneka Iroquois, 
ommah Cherokee. The following are a few instances of the agree- 
ment of Choctaw and Wyandot-Iroquois words. The Iroquois 
entiekeh and the Choctaw neetak, day ; the Mohawk ojistok and the 
Choctaw phitchek, star ; the Iroquois onotchia and the Choctaw noteh, 
tooth ; the Cayuga haksaah and the Choctaw ushi, boy ; the Seneca 
hanec and Iroquois johnika and the Choctaw chinkeh, unky, father ; 
the Iroquois nenekin and the Choctaw nockene, man; the Iroquois 
kninonk and the Choctaw kanchi, to buy, are not accidental coin- 
cidences, but indications of that relationship which a similarity of 
character and modes of life render probable. 
A curious instance of the transference of a word from one meaning 
to another is afforded in the Choctaw numeral three, tukchina. Now, 
there can be no doubt that this is the Mohawk techini, the Caughna- 
waga tekent, the Cayuga and Onondaga dekenih, which however 
denote two, instead of three. That twkchina and techini are the 
same word is evident from the fact that eight, which in Choctaw is 
untuchina, is in Mohawk sa-dekonh, in Caughnawaga sa-tekon and 
in Onondaga dekenh. I am disposed to think that the Choctaw form 
is the true one, as the relation of eight to three gives five, the unit 
generally employed in compositions under ten. The Choctaw ten, 
pocole, is the Oneida oyelih, the absence of the initial labial being a 
necessity of Iroquois language. 
What the Cherokee-Choctaws are, such in a great measure must 
be the Wyandot-Iroquois judging from the specimen of lexical or 
glossarial connection already given. What their relation is to the 
Peninsular family of Asia may easily be shown by comparison, 
although in philology it is not always true that languages which 
resemble the same language resemble one another. There may also 
