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BUREAU OF AMERICAN" ETHNOLOGY 



[BULL. 40 



Chukchee 



mi'Linm 



am-niro' otken 



qon'a'binken 



imngi^iken 



Kor. Kam. 



ini'Linen 



qonya' atinin nine 



mingi'tten ten 



ger] ). In a number of cases the relations between the numerals and 

 manual concepts can easily be given. 



From stem 



five ming hand (con- 



tracted from the 

 absolute form 

 vdingi' LifiiTh) 



eight am-niro'lcen just 



THE THIRD (i. e., 



of the second 

 hand) 

 qon-ya'ati (Kor. 

 Kam. qmiya'wah 

 probably one be- 

 hind i. e., one fin- 

 ger left over) 



BELONGING TO THE 



HANDS, refers evi- 

 dentlj^ to the com- 

 pletion of the 

 count on two 

 hands 



fifteen may be derived 



from stem gitka'lh 

 FOOT, referring to 

 the five toes of 

 the first foot, 

 added to the ten 

 fingers 



twenty a man, refers to all 



the fingers and 

 toes. The form 

 qlik is obsolete in 

 both languages. 



Larger numbers are composed with qWkkin or with the ordinary 

 modern word qla'ul (Kor. Kam. qla'wul) man. 



The term qlig-gli'Tckit or qli'Jclciji qla'ul four hundred is the high- 

 est term of the older Chukchee numeration. Every number higher 

 than four hundred is called giyeu'-te'gin limit of knowledge. In 

 modern times this term, under Russian influence, has been applied 

 to express the idea of one thousand. This recalls the old Russian 

 term for ten thousand ma (Greek pupcac)^ which literally signifies 



DARKNESS. 



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kilhi'nken 



qlifkkin belong- qliTc 



ING TO A MAN 



