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COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY 



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dereil "skin of man", but moaning- "skin of the body'', hhiuit signifying "body", 

 and makwil, "skin". The Mesa Grande term for skin is givan as limis, a vocable 

 ■which has already been discussed. So it must be that the foregoing /iH8((f-AiTOri(r 

 signifies "skin of the liair" or "skin of the head", if hiista is also a synonym for 

 "head". The final -ih- in the compound in (|uestiou is due to the misapprehension 

 of the rolled or trilled r-sound with which the term for skin terminates. The element 

 -kiimo of the vocable (h)iistii-kiim(>, rendered " skull ", is also a factor in the DiegueSo 

 terms for "head" in numbers (15) and (16) of the comparative list; so that it is 

 highly probable that these term.s signify "skull" rather than "head". And, lastly, 

 it is equally probable that the expression (18) knmpaUjit kuwuwu signifies "hair of 

 the whole head (skull) " rather than "head" only; for the initial kiim- is presump- 

 tively the cognate of the forms •ohhio/i and -knmO, denoting in the compounds already 

 noted "skull", while -paii/a signifies "all", and kriift'iwd "hair". There appears 

 to be a relationship between the terms for "head" and " hair" in (126) oomwhelthe, 

 "head", (3) amawhach and inowh'l, "hair", .and (26) mtUu'hl, "head". The explanation 

 of the term hii-lchsta (15), denoting "hair", is probably to be found in its resolution 

 into hu ix"), "head", and Ichsta for a form of hiisia, "hair", discussed above; the 

 term signifies, therefore, "hair of the head". In like manner huch'lia (24). rendered 

 "head" there, seems rather to mean "hair of the head", by its reduction to Ini, 

 "head", and ch'Ita, for a form of khaUa (=xalta), "hair". 



The Serian variants of the term denoting "head", are respectively (A) a''lekt, (B) 

 ik'JH, and (C) ill'il. These forms certainly have no kinship with the Yuman terms 

 discussed above; they have a totally alien aspect. The Serian terms for "hair" are 

 respectively (A) a''Iehl, (B) ina (" feather'" rather than "hair"), (C) ill' it kopt'no, and 

 (D) oheke, and while the last has an aspect foreign to the other terms classed as 

 Serian, none of the vocables appear to offer ground upon which to yiredicate relation- 

 ship between the Yuman and the Serian. For a further explau.ation kH obeke turn to 

 the discussion of "tooth". 



The comparative list of Serian and Yuman names for the " nose " reveals no evidence 

 of linguistic relationship between the two groups; but an inspectiou of the Ynnian 

 lists for "head", " hair'', and "nose ", exhibits a close connection between a number 

 of the names for "head", "nose", and "beak, bill". 



' This signifies, ''let us see " ; Dr Loew :ilso writes, h/o-ok, " to s(^<> you ". 



