COMPARATIA^E LEXICOLOGY 



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YUMAX — contiuiind 



lUood 

 7. yabwata (Oibbs) 

 26. kualayfi 



4. ehivetch 



5. Iii,i;wit8li 

 L huat 



I^'. jueta 

 IL jued 



Bed 

 7. echalitiata (Gibbs) 

 26. kalyo 



4. hivet 



5. ;i;wittcm; gwittem 



I. machchuaiig (=ma,i;xiiaiig) 

 II. mocao 

 IV. 7iiok,-. 



At lirst glance there .seems to be some degree of relation.sUip Ijetween the groups 

 of terms signifying "blood '' and 'red " in the .Serian and the Yuman tongues. But a 

 discriminating examination of the words of the two collated lists seems to lead to the 

 contrary ccmclusion. 



It may be well to note that the difference between the .Serian vocables denoting 

 "blood" ,ind those signifying "red" is that the latter have a prefixed l;a-oil~e- 

 sound, in this resembling most other attributive terms in the language. This lea 

 or i« is probably a pronominative element. The Seri forms of the name for "blood," 

 however, have no initial guttural prefix, and, owing to the lack of hi.storical evi- 

 dence, it is not possible to declare that the 8eri word, as compared with the Yuman 

 terms, has lost an initial guttural aspirate, which is apparently genetic in the 

 Y'nman words, as it is present in 27 of the 28 variants of the Diegueuo (14) Ihoat 

 and Jlohare (fl) ahwat cited in the list. This is emphasized by tlie fact that the 

 guttural aspir.^te remains unchanged whether the term denotes "blood" or, meta- 

 jihoriially, "red". The Yuman word ap])arently has no distinctively adjective or 

 attributive form. This is evidently in direct contrast with the Seri word, in which 

 the attributive form is initially and terminally ditlerent from the form of the word 

 employed as the name for "blood". These considerations strongly militate against 

 the assumed linguistic relationship between the Serian terms denoting, concretely, 

 "blood", and, metaphorically, "red", on the one hand, and the Yuman vocables of 

 like signiticati(m on the other. 



Yellow (l)7'otrii) 

 A. mossoli' k()ili"> 



komassolt (brown) 



Green 



Blacl: 



Blue 



kiipolt 



kr.iliii' 



