186 ASIATIC TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
The Wyandot family has undoubtedly miscellaneous Asiatic affinities 
in point of language. The remarkable term hanadra, denoting bread, 
is the Magyar kunyer, just as wish (five) is the Esthonian wits. 
Rain in Mohawk is ayokeanore, a peculiar form, and this is, the 
Turkish yaghmur ; and the Turkish besh (five) is also the Cayuga wish 
and the Mohawk wisk. The Magyar kutya is the Tuscarora cheeth 
(dog) and the Lapp oadze is the Huron auoitsa (flesh). The Mohawk 
negative yagh is the Turkish yok, and waktare, an Iroquois word 
meaning “to speak,” is the Yakut ittare. Stone is odasqua in 
Troquois and fash in Turk, and tooth is otoatseh in Tuscarora, dish 
in Turk. To hide is kasetha in Iroquois and kistya in Yakut, and 
field is kaheta in Iroquois and chodu in Yakut. The Onondaga 
word jolacharota (light) is the Lapp jalakas, with an increment. 
Two is ohs Mohawk, ausuh Tuscarora, and uch Turk, ews Yakut, 
while seven is yadah in Mohawk, Oneida and Onondaga, and yeddi 
in Turk. ; 
It may be asked why, when the Ugrian and Tartar languages 
relate so closely to the Iroquois by unmistakable roots, I turn aside 
to the Peninsular. I do so -for various reasons: First, because 
certain peculiarities of Turkish and Ugrian grammar, such as personal 
and possessive prononinal affixes to verbs and nouns, are wanting 
in Iroquois. Second—Because the Peninsular languages are at least 
as near in lexical affinity to the Iroquois as are the Ural-Altaic ; 
and, thirdly, because the Choctaw-Cherokee dialects, which are 
undoubtedly of Peninsular origin, are too like the Iroquois to admit 
of separation. 
The Koriak origin of the Iroquois is given in the identity of the 
Koriak war-god, Arioski, with the Iroquois Areskoui. The 
resemblance of these names has often been noted, but it has been 
regarded as a coincidence similar to that which exists between them 
and the Greek Ares, curious, but of no scientific value. Mr. 
Mackintosh, in the little book to which I have already alluded, draws 
many parallels between the manners and customs of the Koriaks and 
the American Indians, several of the latter being Iroquois customs. — 
Unfortunately this industrious author regarded the American 
aborigines en masse, and mixed up Koriaks and Tungus in his 
comparisons. Still, his facts, to which I cannot now refer, are 
valuable. Arioski is not the only Iroquois word in Koriak,. The 
Koriak or Tchuktchi khathin, guetkin are the Lroquois hetken, bad ; 
