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of hi-ivakc, treated abovn. Now, it is mathematically certain that if "two'' lie au 

 element of the concept "seven", it must be added to some iirecedinf; number that 

 will produce the result sought, and this number is of course five. So it is presuuip- 

 tively certain that the clement -eliiejxii must mean "added, laid onto, superadded, 

 subjoined". The Humraockhave (8) maik-kewik-enaich is composed of the conceiitual 

 element kennk, "two", the prefix maik- meaning "more, over", and the suffix -enaich 

 (or -kenmeh), which seems to be an ordinal or distributive flexion. So that "two 

 over, added", is here likewi.se the expression for the numeral "seven". The next 

 form, the Diegueuo (11) of Dr Loew is another example of the use of the numeral 

 "two" with difl'ereut flexions, to express the numl)i'r "Seven". An examination 

 of this Diegueno list of nuuierals shows that in such a form as nio-khoak, "seven", 

 the initial nio- is a prefix signifying "added, in addition to", etc, while the kJiouk is 

 a form of the numeral "two''. The next ten forms, while apparently derivative 

 from a common source, are difficult of exjilanation from the material at hand. The 

 same may be said of the last four, three of which are evidently cognate and are very 

 probably shortened forms of the original represented by the first group in the list. 

 Take, for example, a form like (22) 7iaiDnAe-.rj)<', and drop the final -^j)t', as is done in 

 some of the terms in the "eight" list, and also the initial ha-, and the result is a 

 form fcake, which in the dialects (6) and (9) would become vHga, vika, which is the form 

 of the digit "two" in these Jialects. The form (7) hee-eeka is also merely the digit 

 "two" of this dialect without any index to show that it is not "two" rather than 

 "seven ". The same thing is to be noticed in the .Serian lists, in which the form for 

 thirteen is in all respects the same as that fur the numeral "eighteen", both aiijiar- 

 ently meaning merely "three added' . 



