THE OCEANIC FAMILY OF LANGUAGES. 821 
tasi, taday. mn the following the final consonant represents, 
according to rule, the original ending ¢ :—Jrazka, isaka, saka, dik, 
san, isara. 
Fwve. 
Arabic, h”amsat ; Modern, h”amsa or h”amse ; Mahri, h”omo ; 
(Sokotra, h”emah) ; Oceanic, hima, himah, uma, yuma, lima, rima, 
tima, kima, sima, rime, dimy. The ending ¢ and radical s elided 
in all as in Mahri. 
Ten. 
Arabic h‘asharat, Modern h‘ashra, Ethiopic h‘ashartu, Hebrew 
hiasarah, Oceanic ngahuru, gavula, ahurn, ngabulu (sa) chbulu, 
nangaviri, ngatil, abur, folo, puluh, buro, furu, novulu, napulo, 
mapuru, (si) nafulu, (sa) ngpweu, (sa) nghul. The peculiar 
Semitic guttural h‘ is here represented in Oceanic by g (as some- 
times in the Septuagint version of the Bible, 3d century B.C,), by 
ng (as now is pronounced among the Jews), and by the guttural 
ch, as wellas by x and m. In all, the ending ¢ is elided. 
Hundred. 
Arabie mia?’, with nunation miatun, Modern mayat, Ethiopic 
meet, Amharic mato (the ¢ is the feminine ending ¢), Oceanic mart, 
mara, bot, fok, puku, lutcho, ratu, rato, ngut, and, with nunation, 
hutun, utin, natun. For similar changes of m, see below. In 
all, the ending ¢ is the final consonant. 
Thousand. 
Arabic vlef, with nunation @lefun, Hebrew alef, Assyrian 
alapu, Mahri Ehkili of, Oceanic arivo, libu, livu, ribu, sébu, 
rewu, ewu, afe, and with nunation, ribun, rebun, ruwun. 
The following belong to the common stock of Oceanic words, 
and the letter changes they exhibit are to be compared with those 
we have seen in the numerals. Compare the changes of the 
initial m in the four following words with those seen in the word 
for ‘‘ hundred.” 
Water. 
Arabic, maat, Modern and Ethiopic, maz; Oceanic, vai, fai, 
war, ar, be, pei, tet, rei; Gilolo, wayr ; Malay, ayer. The last two 
still retain the ancient feminine ending ¢ as r. 
Banana. 
Arabic, mv’2 ; Amharic muz; Oceanic, muhu, bus, butch, hutshi, 
hotsy, dts or at, muku, loka. 
The two following words are of grammatical importance, being 
used as the analytic substitute for the ancient inflexion of gender 
in nouns. 
