820 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
Seven. 
Arabic, sabh‘iatu ; Assyrian, sibit ; Mahri i (Modern Himyaritic), 
abet ; @eoune pitu, fito, fiz, fus, fik, sik, tik, titu, tuju, fiet, fiak, 
ambitu, wontit, awith. ‘The final consonant in all is the ending f. 
Sta. 
Arabic, sittat ; Mahri, iteet (itit) ; Oceanic, enina, anam, anum, 
amnem, wonen, (won), (kon), ( Jene), (hene), (hono), gurum ; 
Malagasy, enina is envma in enimina, &e. Tn all, except those in 
brackets, in which it is elided, the final consonant is the ending t. 
Nine. 
Arabic, tish‘at , (Modern, tist) ; Mahri, iset ; Sokotra, sa’ah) ; 
Oceanic, siam, sivy, hiva, hhepi, iv f sievo, sieva, siyu, tihu, sin, 
sanga, asera, salapan, sambilan, pitan. In salapan we have 
labial for sibilant (as in jfene, 6; wontit, 7; puluh, 10; and 
often), and sa/a—is the initial ¢ peep ered exactly, as is dala 
(or bala) in Malay, dalapan (also salapan), 8; Lagala dalava, 2. 
Sambihan appears by transposition for saliban rate salapan). In 
all, the final consonant is the ending ¢. 
Hight. 
Arabic, thamaniyat ; Modern thmani; Hebrew, shemonet ; 
(Sokotra, tamani).; Oceanic, lapan, dalapan (and salapan), wan, 
wal, panu, valu, varu ; the ending ¢ elided in all. 
Three. 
Hebrew, shiloshah ; Arabic, thalathat ; Modern, thlata, or 
thélata ; Modern Syriac, telaa ; Oceanic; telo, talu, tolu, rolu, 
Solu, silu, teni, kar, ret, seik, tiga. Seik and tiga are for thelata 
by elision of the middle 7 and g or & for the final radical ¢. In 
all, the ending ¢ is elided. 
Two. 
Arabic, thinta (ni); Hebrew, shita ; Himyaritic, thita (for 
shinta, thinta) ; Oceanic, duwa, rua, or tua (that is, rwwa or 
tuwa), roa, duka, riea, ruka, dia, rowah, ua, lua, nuwa, and first 
syllable reduplicated, dalava, darua. The formation ending ta 
in thinta, thita, is a double ending, consisting of the Semitic 
feminine ¢ and the Semitic dual ending a, and is exactly repre- 
sented according to rule in Oceanic by the last syllable of rica, 
ruwa (rua), dalava, duha. 
One. 
Arabic, m. a‘W’ad, f. wal’idat ; Syrian m. had, f. Wada, Wa ; 
Hebrew m. wh’ad, f. wh’ath; Ethiopic, m. wi’adu, f. wate, 
Ligri, m. ade. In ha, al’ath, al’ati the d is elided. Oceanic; 
aida, aisa, ida, ita, isa, asa (and sa), tray, tas (and rats), rare, 
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