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COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY 



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YocABi'LAitY Lists or Skriax Numehals 



Tbe following comparative table of Serian numerals represents all tbe accessible 

 number-names in existing records of Serian linguistic material. M Pinart records 

 two lists of number-names from "one" to "ten", and says of tbe first list, "Quaudo 

 se cuenta seguido", for counting consccntivtly. 



It will be of interest to note tbe fact tbat tbe forms of tbe digit "eigbt", in the 

 vocabularies of Professor McGee and Mr Bartlett, witb tbelatter's "eigbteen", differ 

 wbolly from tbe elements representing "eigbt" in tbeir terms for "eighty". Tbe 

 term employed by them is recorded by M Piuart in bis second list and also by Sr 

 Plmcutel. Another pecu'iarity to be noted in tbe vocabulary of Mr Bartlett is the 

 fact that for tbe numbers "thirteen" and "eigbteen" he writes the same form. 

 The latter is evidently miswritten, as the two are composed of identical elements. 

 The explanation of this seems to be tbat in the former there is a subaudition of the 

 element "ten", and in the latter of tbe element "fifteen". 



It is equally instructive to mark the fact that the terms denoting "two, three, 

 four, five" retain or preserve their fuller forms in their multiples, as in "twenty, 

 thirty, forty, and fifty". 



The lists follow: 



Pimentel (cit- 

 McGee Pinart Bartlett ing Tenocliio) 



