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Basque.” 
Seven is in Basque zazpi, a borrowed word. The Etruscan 
nonechi (7) agrees with the Japanese nanatsu." Nine is nonera, 
in Basque bederetci. The nearest to the Etruscan is the Iroquois 
niruh, nirenh.” The following inscription justifies the assignment of 
nonech: to seven or it may be to nine. 
37. YLYI - FELIMNIAM - AFDIL - MEC® 
kuukuu aginsa ume kau rano ragi tu uso nonechi 
Koikoi aginza hume Cai rano iragadu otso 7 
Koikoi’s offering child Caia towards she passes age 7 
There is little to notice here, as most of the words have occurred 
already. The term for child is unchanged. The only new word is 
trago or tragi. It means to pass time as in eta sei urte irago ziran, 
“and six years having passed,” dembora iragana ‘time passed,” 
tragan ganean “the past night.” This inscription leads me to doubt 
was composed, bortz seems to have suffered phonetic decay, becoming bost. This same process 
of decay is visible in most of the Khitan languages. Thus the Sonora group, which has mariki, 
ete., also denotes 5 by amxuoi; the Pujuni, which has markwm, has also mustik and mauk, 
and in addition to its masculine form mahar, the related Shoshonese has makati and maha. 
Thus r was replaced by an aspirate or sibilant, or dropped altogether as in the case of bost 
from bortz. The same was the case in Iroquois, which now has wis, wisk, wiks, wish, to 
denote 5 ; in Peruvian, which has ppiska and pissika ; in the European Georgian wochusi and 
the Mizjejian pehi. The Ugric or Finnie group of languages, which is most closely related to 
the Khitan, exhibits the same process of phonetic decay, five being wit, wis, wiji, wisit, weze, 
etc., pronounced vit, vis, etc. The comparatively unrelated Turkish agrees in besh, bes, bish, 
ete. 
60 It is strange that while preserving so complete a form for 5 as mirayo, the Etruscan should 
have reduced the origina] word for 6 to sei, stu, chiw, zio, or whatever may have been the pro- 
nunciation of CI. The original must, I think, have been the Caucasian ziba, Georgian usgwa, 
Dacotah shappe, sakpa, shakkopi, the Sonora acevi. But as Basque gaba, night, and abo, mouth, 
became gau and ao, so seba became seo and at last sei. The Circassian also has chi and shoo for 
6, the Mizjejian itch, the Corean yoset and osso, the Iroquois iaiak, ashiak, jaiak, the Dacotah 
shaque, the Aztec chiquace, the Peruvian socta, succuta. The Yeniseians, who inhabit the 
mound country of their great Khitan ancestors in Siberia, call 6 ages, egga, ugam. 
61 J confess that nonechi, 7, stands on a poor philological foundation. Besides the Japanese 
nanatsu, the only Khitan numerals that agree are the Yeniseian, doubtfully, in onyang, wennya, 
onse, the Koriak gnyttinkashit, nitagasit, and the Kamtchadale ngtonok. The Basque zazpi, on 
the other hand, is well authenticated as a Kbitan word, being the Georgian shquwiti, ishgwid, the 
Dacotah shawcopee, the Aztec chicome, the Shoshonese quachakabia, ete. 
62 In regard to 9, nonera, with which I have compared the Iroquois niruh, nireuh, it is worthy 
of note that some Iroquois dialects use watiro and wadehlo, inviting comparison with the 
Basque bederatzi. 
The Basque amar, 10, probably mara or mala in Etruscan, must go to the ends of the earth 
to find its like in the Chileno mari. The Iroquois, having no m, makes it oieri, and the Aztec, 
without r, renders it matlactli. 
63 Fabretti reads the last group but one ACDIL instead of AFDIL. I am disposed to doubt 
the correctness of this alteration, as AFDIL is a common formula, and ACDIL, eritsi du atso, 
he esteems age, is absurd. Fabretti has probably mistaken a square cut F for C. 
