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quihuit, quauitl. The Khitan terms for thunder are like the Semitic 
gidgad. The Lesghian seems to furnish the type in gurgur, which 
is approached by the Basque curciria, thurzuria, and aggravated in 
the Koriak urgirgerkin. The Georgian modifies the harsh sound by 
dropping one of the 7’s, as in gurgin and kuchili, the latter of 
which corresponds with other Koriak forms, kyhal, kyigala, and with 
the Kamtchatdale AKychichlizen. The Choctaw has the two forms 
jyrgjaa and hiloha ; the Yuma stops short at aker ; but the Iroquois 
furnishes a word kawseras that agrees more perfectly with the Old 
World forms. 
I have already referred to the Yuma dialects (the Yuma or 
Cuchan, Maricopa, Mojeve, Dieguno), as valuable members. of the 
Khitan family for comparative purposes. Two Yuma words for 
cold are xetchur and hutseelo. ‘The former accords with the Dacotah 
hootsheere and the Iroquois otsorai, which the Basque changes to 
otsbero, while in hutseelo we find the Lesghian chuatzala. The con- 
nection of the Iroquois onyare, neck, with the Basque cinzurra 
might seem doubtful, as the Basque sibilant and guttural prefixes. 
are generally more conspicuous by their absence than by their pre- 
sence. But the Yuma form henneeil shows that it is the Troquois 
which errs by default in this respect. The Yukahiri jomuel restores 
that original form which would naturally have been looked for in 
the Basque, and leads the way to the Lenca ampshala. The Lesghian 
word gabur, which could naver be evolved out of cinzurra, naturally 
rises out of gomuel. 
The Iroquois onuste, maize, and the Basque arto, artho, have little 
in common. The Yuma tarrichte, however, dropping the initial ¢ 
and applying the first rule as if it were a Basque word, becomes 
annichte. Another Yuma form is terditch, with which may be com- 
pared the Lesghian zoroto and the Circassian nartwh, and with these 
the relation of the Basque arto, artho is easily perceived. 
Still another Yuma word meaning to speak is atchahquerck. This 
is undeniably the Aino itakguru. But another Aino dialect gives 
idakuwa, and this prepares us for the Iroquois atakia and the Basque 
itzegin. The nearest word to the Yuma haweel, meaning a river, is 
the Aymara hahuiri or hawiri, and this is plainly the Lesghian wor, 
chyare, and the Basque uharre, uharka. In chyare, by the appli- 
cation of the first rule, we detect the Iroquois kahionha. 
