324* THE SERI INDIANS 



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karai and maxk-pkiitai, auil the mexa- ia the Kiliwi^e mexa-le, " people. '', on the other. 

 The signilicaiR'e of the iuitial ta- in tiimmd {lamd, iammd, tamal, tammaUi) seeuis to 

 be that of ii definitive pronominative; it is found in the Cochimi of Dr Gabb and in 

 the Laymon. Dr Gabb recorded in his vocabulary ta-ip, "good", but ta-ip-ena, 

 "bad", the final -ena being the characteristic Cochimi privative suffix elsewhere 

 ■written -mi. So it would seem that the stem is -ip, meaning " good, desirable ''. In 

 Kiliwee axok (Dr Gabb'a aUok) signifies "flesh, meat ", while axok-m-yiii denotes 

 "deer", literally "good, desirable meat", in which m-ijai signifies "good, desira- 

 ble"; it is probably connected with the term ka, "great", and its variants noted 

 above, and so luay also denote "abundance". Under the word "love" Dr Gabb 

 has m'jai-i/ip, the free translation of which should read " greatly desirable; abun- 

 dantly good, well". Thus -ip, or -yip, signifies "desirable, good, pleasing to the 

 sense"; in Laymon likewise the initial -ta is sometimes wanting, as in uai/p-mang, 

 "good (is) ", as distinguished from tuhipo-manii, "good (is) ". The final -many ( = ma«) 

 is a term apparently denoting "to exist, to live", and is possibly cognate with the 

 md (Kiliwee me) in the words discussed above. 



This, it would appear, is the origin of the md in tnmd, "man". The individual 

 character of the initial ta is suggesfa'd in what has already been .said in reference to 

 its absence from such vocables as way})-mang and m'gai-ijip, in which the nayp and 

 the yip are identical with the ip in 1a-\p, '• good ". This term ta appears as the rela- 

 tive "that" under the form te. It also ai)pear8 as a prefix in the Cochimi and Lay- 

 mon numeral "one" and in the adjective te-jnnoey, "a few"; also in the adjective 

 de-muejueg, "all": and again in the peculiar numeral " one", namely (ht-juenidi. 



Such appears to be the analysis of the Cochimi and Laymon iamd, " man ". The 

 form of it recorded by Mr Bartlett, del-md, "man", compared with his de-ma-usti, 

 "Indian", is seemingly a valid confirmation of the foregoing derivation, because 

 this I in de-l-md is jirobably identical with the final I or Id in tama-l and tamma-ld, 

 "man", cited above. In the Cochimi for "water", va-l, its true character is partly 

 seen; cal oso signifies "river", but \ncaa-pa-l (Gabb's kax-pa-ra), "sea", it becomes 

 a suffix, the element ^o signifying "much, great", and Dr Gablj's form shows that 

 in the dialect he recorded its form is ra; again in cul ka, "lake", literally "large 

 water", it is .a suffix. It appears agaiu in Mr Hartlett's del-mag, "light", as com- 

 pared with Dr Gabb's ma-ahra {^=maah-ra}, "fire"; it appears evident that the 

 mag of del-mag and the iiiaah of maah-ra are cognate, so that de-I is here found as a 

 prefix, as it is in Mr Bartlett's de-l-md, "man". Thus it is that delmd and dema-nsti, 

 "Indian ", of Mr Bartlett and tamd and tammald of Hervas, Duflot de Mofras, and 

 Miguel del Barco are cognate. 



It accordingly appears that the assumed linguistic relationship between the forms 

 discussed above and the Seiian ku'tnmm {ktam, tarn), "man", is very improbable, 

 because there are no evidences nor data indicative that the Serian forms have had a 

 common linguistic tr.adition with the Cochimi and Kiliwee forms discussed above. 

 It seems proper, therefore, to reject such assumed relationship between the Yumau 

 and the Serian vocables in this comparison. 



The comparative list of names jjurportiug to signify " woman " in both the Serian 

 and the Yuman tongues reveals not a single phonetic or lexic accordance that may 

 even suggest linguistic kinship between the two groups of vocables. 



The comparative list of terms purporting to signify "people" and "Indian" in 

 the Serian aud Yuman groups of languages exhibits, in a manner similar to those 

 already examined, the same decisive lack of phonetic accordance between the voca- 

 bles comjiared. 



Head 



A. aMeht 



B. ih'lit 



C. ill'it 

 D. 



Xose 



