294 SOME LAWS OF PHONETIC CHANGE 
In some cases the Basque word, while agreeing with the Iroquois, 
differs from the Lesghian, so that both Iroquois and Basque must be 
brought under the first rule, in which Lesghian must take the place 
of Basque. Thus the word for name is in Iroquois chinna and in 
Basque icena, while the Lesghian form is zar. 
Certain roots also which I have not found in Basque unite the 
Lesghian and the Iroquois. Such is the Lesghian surdo, night, 
which is the Iroquois asunto. Another Lesghian form chur agrees 
with the Aino asiru. The Lesghian ras,a feather, is the Iroquois 
onasa. The Iroquois word for rain, zokennores, is not very like the 
Lesghian Kasi-Kumuk form sural, but is at once recognisable in that 
of the Akush dialect, which is kanilt. In fact the phonetic changes 
which I have pointed out as existing between the Basque and the 
Troquois are really found operating in greater or less measure within 
the bounds of individual Khitan languages both in the Old World 
and on this continent. Even the Kamtchatdale, which generally 
accords with the Iroquois, gives occasionally a Basque form, as in 
kchailta, the belly, as compared with the Iroquois kchonta. 
Before concluding the list of examples, which, however tiresome 
to enumerate, I feel are due from me to those who would themselves 
judge the validity of the laws which I have enunciated, I wish to 
set forth the relations of two connected Iroquois words the deriva- 
tion of which has long been sought in vain. ‘Lhe first is the word 
for house onushag, kanuchsa, anonchia, kanonsa. Beginning near 
home, the Shoshonese niki and Sonora nzhki should not be foreign to 
the Iroquois forms, especially as another Shoshonese form kanuke 
almost reproduces the Iroquois kanuchsa, and as the Sonora kaliki is 
the same word. The Shoshonese has still another form liki, which 
is the Araucanian ruka, and the Lesghian ruk. If, however, we ask 
how the Iroquois forms anonchia and kanonsa obtained their double 
n, we must be referred to the Koriak, which renders the Lesghian 
ruk by oranga, and this the Iroquois changes to onanga, anonchia. 
The Aztec call, different as it may appear, is the same word, for 
the Sonora which gave us kaliki abbreviates this in certain dialects 
into kart, from which call is derived by the simplest of all phonetic 
changes. The other word is that which gives name to our Dominion, 
kanada, kanata, a village. Nobody would dream of associating it 
with the Natchez word walt, and yet their derivation is one. The 
language of the Yenisei furnishes the original term, kelet, koleda, 
