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ble from the data to be nlitained from the meager material at present accessil)le. 

 The last form is doubtful. These analyses show no relationship lietween the Serian 

 and the '^'umau terms. 



Serian 



A. khohnut', khuh-nid' 



B. honachtl, ho-nachtl 

 l^onal^', xo-«alx' 



^•lkanl,r . ka->ilx' 

 D. taiil (tanl?) 



T"ki«(i« 



The Serian forms of the numeral "ten'' are apparently cognate, being composed, 

 it would seem, of the same elements. Thus they are mere variants of a common 

 original expression, signifying, literally, ''two fives", or what originally was the 

 same thing, 'two hands". 



The element klioli- in (A) l-huhni'it represents ghd'k (kha'k) or kO'k, as it is also writ- 

 ten, signifying "two", and -niit' is the slightly disguised name for "hand'' and 

 "linger", being also transcribed as -nachll, -nalx , -»JXy ^n*^ lastly -aul. Compare 

 these carefully with the words denoting "arm, hand, finger'", in this language, and 

 it will be seen that the spelling of khoh- varies in the several vocabularies from khoh-, 

 ho-, X"-, to ka-, respectively. The derivation of the (, or rather Id, in taul of Sr 

 Tecochio, is not evident, but seems to be cognate with the prefix torn-, turn-, tint-, or 

 diihi-, already noticed, making taul thus signify "five added'', i. e.. to five, and so 

 producing "ten units '. .Such seems to be the evident resolution of the Serian names 

 for the numeral "ten''. But (oh? may have been miswritteu for ta-an'l. 



The first four terms of the Yumau list are plainly based on the numeral "five'', 

 expressed by narap. The form laphaiiaich (8) is evidently a shortened form o( ^arap- 

 hoirii-aich. literally "two fives", or, what was the same thing at the beginning, "two 

 bauds". The first term, aarap, signifies "' five, finger", denotively, but its literal or 

 connotive signification is "'entire, whole, full, complete, collectively", a meaning 

 which was suggested in the discussion of the numeral "five". And howwaich is the 

 form of the digit "two'' iu this dialect. 



