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COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY 



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either side of tlie liaiul. Tlie form kapx'a (C) of M riiiiirt api);irently retains almost 

 uuclianged its primitive phonetic outline. 



The Yuman list of the dialectic forms of the digit "three" is full and is evi- 

 dently composed of derivatives from a single source. This parent stem seisms to 

 be the attributive hami, "tall, long'', of the Mohave vocabulary. The form hamiak 

 signifies "it is long, tall", and is an appropriate name for the middle finger of the 

 hand. TheKiliwee liamiak, "three", still preserves unchanged the jihonetic integrity 

 of its component elements. These etymologies fail to develop any lexic relationship 

 between the Seriau and the Yuman terms. 



Serian 



A. sii'hkum, stVhl- 



B. scochhom, scochh- 

 p Jshox'kum, shox'- 



lk8Uj;'kua, ksuxk- 

 y. Jkosojkl, kosoxk- 

 Ikosojhl, kosoxh- 



Yiiman 



8. ehaimpap'k 



12. chapop 

 24. chepap 



7. choompapa 



13. ch'pap 



17. ch'poji 



4. chumpiip 



15. chumiiiTp 



16. chupop 



20. chunmpiip 

 3. s'pap 



5. styumiJiip 

 26. tcapap 



14. tchibabk 



6. tchuugbabk 



9. tcimp;ipa 

 2. hoba 



10. hob;i 

 n. hoopba 



1. h<5p.a 



18. hopil 



19. h6pa 



21. hopii 



22. hupa 

 I. ichkyum-kooak, (^i^'kium-kuak) 



11. maga-cubugua 



III. maga-cubugua 



23. mnok(?), "(fingers) closed, lying 

 together" 



IV. nauwi (Laymon) 



The Serian examples of the digit "four" are evidently mere variants of a common 

 original, the derivation and signification of which the meager linguistic material at 

 hand seems not to supply. In no manner do these forms accord with those of the 

 Yuman list below, thus barring any inference of relatioushiii. 



The Yuman list presents apparently only three different terms for the digit 

 "four". Without the means of obtaining even a partially accurate view of the his- 

 torical development of such a form as the Mohave chaimimp'le (8), it is nevertheless 

 instructive to compare it with the Cochimi tc/iA-^iiHi-Aooafc (I), the literal meaning 

 of which is "two repeated". This apparently gives a clew to both the derivation 

 and signification of the Mohave term. The initial chaim- is seemingly a modified form 

 of the prefix ichkijum-, signifying "repeated, again, iterated''. If this identifica- 

 tion be correct, as it certainly seems to be, then the final -^>aji'k is the duplicated 



