MCSEE] 



COMPARATIVE LEXICOLOGY 



333* 



YUMAN — continued 



The comparative list of names for " wing " in the Serian and the Yumau languages 

 exhibits no satisfactory evidence of a genetic relationship between the collated 

 vocables ; in like manner there is no phonetic accordance whatever between the terms 

 denoting "feather" in the two groups of words. It seems evident, however, that 

 several of the Yuman words for "wing" and " feather" are phonetically mimetic 

 onomatopes ; compare whirrawhhih (17) from Mr Parker's San Tomas Jlission Vocabu- 

 lary, which is evidently an imitative word for the sound made by the wings of a 

 bird (for example, of the California (luail) in rapid motion. 



In the collated schedule of names for ' ' bird " there is lacking any phonetic accord- 

 ances indicative of linguistic relationship between the languages compared. 



Jlone 



A. mittag (like German "mittag") 



B. hrehitiJk 



C. ittak 

 D. 



Lfij 



A. at til" attaqklem = ' 



B. itahom 



(-, J hita^om = ■• thigh' 



Ihijipexl = "leg" 

 D. 



thigh ' 



15. ;lk 



24. ak 

 24a. ak 



25. ak 

 26a. ak 



I. hak 

 23. hak 

 27. hilk 



17. ok 

 266. u'yak 



18. chiyii'ka 

 21. tciiika 



4. eschaques 



2. uata (Loew) 



impadi (White) 

 1. mopada 

 11. mupata (Renshawe) 



19. mpada 



6. methilya 



/methilya (Gibbs) = "thigh" 

 7.J meemay meethilya ( f ) ^ " upper 



i leg" 

 10. methil 



20. em6 

 23. eme 



21. emmf 



1 From Parker's San Tomas Mission Vocabulary, MS. 1876. 

 * This was rendered, "A, white feather worn in these.ilp"; in Parker'^ 

 laiemiss is given for " feather", but it is literally, " bird's hair ". 



.San Tomas record tascka- 



