292 SOME LAWS OF PHONETIC CHANGE 
Iroquois form is wennokera, a term illustrating the first law as well 
as the third, 
The Basque dialects furnish us with two words for hair, i/eac and 
biloac. In Iroquois also we find arochia and werochia or ahwerochia. 
The first form corresponds wita the Lesghian ras, the Aino ruh, and 
the Dacotah arra. In the second we meet with the Circassian abra. 
The final ae of tdeac and biloac is the Basque mark of the plural, and 
is the same in origin and in function as the Iroquois ke. 
Although not entitled to rank as a law of phonetic change, it is 
worthy of note, as tending to simplify the exhibition of the common 
origin of Basque and Iroquois, that the Iroquois frequently differs 
From the Basque by inserting a dental between the letters n and r, for 
purposes of euphony. 
Thus the Iroquois kanadra, bread, is the Basque janhari, janari, 
food ; for the initial 7, as we learn from M. Lecluse, though pro- 
nounced as in French in the canton of Soule, and as in German in 
that of Labourt, assumes the power of the Spanish letter in Gui- 
puzcoa, and may be represented by kh. 
The verb. to love in Basque is onerechi, oniritzt, in which it is easy 
to recognize the Yukahiri anoorak, and the Japanese noroke. In 
Yuma the word is awvonoorch. Three Iroquois forms are endoorooh- 
quah, aindoorookwa and enorongwa. 
A large number of words in Basque and in Iroquois coincide in 
sound and in signification, and for such coincidence I have so far 
been able to discover no law. Among these may be mentioned the 
Iroquois garioha, bird, which is the Basque choria, the Lesghian zur, 
the Aymara chirott. The final ti of the Aymara has also appeared 
in hinata, dead, as compared with the Iroquois kenha and the 
Lesghian chana. The Iroquois white, which English missionaries 
write kearugea and the French kenraken, is the Basque churia, the 
Japanese kirot, the Loo Choo shirusa, the Lesghian tchalasa, and 
the Quichua yurac. An Iroquois word for dog is tschierha, the Sho- 
shonese schari, the Mizjeji (Caucasian) thar, the Georgian djogori, 
and the Basque zacurra. So the Basque hezwrra, bone, is the 
Troquois ohskereh, and the Cherokee ookolah ; and the Basque aztala, 
leg, is the Iroquois okotara, and the Lesghian uttur. While gerce, 
an Iroquois word for tree, agrees with the Basque chara and the 
Quichua kullu, meaning wood, another Iroquois form, kaeet, is the 
Lesghian hueta, guet, the Basque zuaitz, zuhaitz, and the Aztec 
