THOMAS] ORIGIN OF NUMBER NAMES 879 
de Punité de 1 45 indique les nombres depuis 5 inclusivement jusqwa 
10 exclusivement, @est le remplacant de chic Azteque.” This, how- 
ever, does not give us the signification of the term. 
In Opata, Cahita, and Tarahumari, where there is a somewhat close 
agreement in the number names, especially in the first two, the 
method of counting from 5 to 9 appears to vary to some extent from 
the quinary system. If we may judge from the termination 7/7 in 
pussaniki, the Tarahumari name for 6, the count has reference to 5, 
as seems also to be true with regard to the name for 7 in Cahita; but 
the name for 7 in Opata, if correctly given, is apparently equivalent 
to1+6. In the three dialects the name for 8 is equivalent to 2x 4; 
and the 9 refers to LO, Ava, the prefix in Opata, being interpreted 
“antes” by Pimental. The 10 in these dialects refers to the hand. 
The name for 1 in Tarahumari, as given in the list—d7re or pile—is 
considered by Charencey as abnormal, who says that s?nep7 is given 
in one place. This would bring the dialect into harmony with the 
others. 
Of the dialects belonging to the Shoshonean branch, we notice that 
the Cahuillo and Kauyuya are regularly quinary, 6, 7, 8, and 9 being 
formed by adding 1, 2, 3, and 4 to 5. The Kechi of San Luis Rey 
appears to follow the same rule. The numbers 6 to 10 in the Tobikhar 
appear, so far as can be determined by the names, to be formed irreg- 
ularly. The name for 7 includes that for 4; 8 is 2x4; the name for 9 
includes that for 5; and 10 as given is 2X5; but in counting the 
numbers above 10 another term—Awrura—is used for 10, possibly an 
equivalent for ‘‘man,” as 20 is hurura-vehe=2 hurura. However, a 
more perfect knowledge of the language may show the count to be 
quinary. 
The method of forming the numbers 6 to 9 in the dialects of the 
Zapotecan family can not be determined with positive certainty from 
the names alone, except in the Mazateca, where, if Belmar (Lengua 
Mazateca) be correct, it follows with great regularity the quinary 
system even into the higher numbers. For example, 6, /7, is a con- 
traction of t-n-gu, or 5+1; 7, y/-ti, of vi-n-ho or 5+2 (4), ete. Judging 
from this and the slight indications in the Chuchon, Popoloca, and 
Trike, these idioms appear to follow the same system. For example, 
in the Trike, as we learn from Belmar’s ‘‘ Ensayo sobre la Lengua 
Trike,” the anka in guatanka, 6, same as ango, signifies ‘** another,” 
or “other,” and the 2, nghui, when changed to the ordinal by the 
pretix ¢s7, becomes ¢s/-guaaha. That the same rule is followed in the 
Zapotec seems evident from the fact that above 10 the quinary-vigesi- 
mal system is followed as distinctly as in the Nahuatl, 15 having a dis- 
tinct name and the count therefrom to 20 being based on it. 
In the Othomi the numbers 6 to 9 are formed regularly according 
to the quinary system. In Pirinda 6 and 7 are formed by the addition 
