NOTES ON THE CHWACHAMAJU. 
By Pror, F. L. O. RoEHRIG. 
Good spirit : issul—The word issul means eagle. 
Evil spirit: amakule.—The first part of this expression (ama) seems to be the 
word which means air ; and amakule is a compound, according to all appearance. 
World: madji.—This word means also day. We find something analogous in Rus- 
sian, where the same word means both day (also light, splendor) and world. 
Water : aka.—A similar root for water and fluidity is also met with in some of 
the Ural-Altai languages. The casual coincidence with the word for water in Latin 
and the Romance tongues is simply amusing, just as the Chwachamaju vadu! (go !) 
when compared with the Latin vadere, or the Chwachamaju dd (give) with the Latin 
verb dare. 
Barth: ama.—This word differs from ana (rir) merely by the accent on the final 
a (amd). Such differences, by accentuation alone, occur in many languages; we have 
only to refer to Greek, French, &e. 
Sea: kdmots.—The form of this word is the same as kamots (eclipse), from which 
it differs only by the accent on a in its first syllable (kdmots). 
East: kale kaveidol igvé.—Southeast ; ashodo igva.—The word igvaé (wind) enters 
into these compounds; as the different points from which the wind blows may have led 
these people to the distinction of the points of the compass. 
Earthquake : ama ideveve.—The first part of this compound is evidently the word 
ama (earth). 1t should therefore perhaps be written amd ideveve. 
Rain: ikhtche-—The first syllable of this word (ikh) seems to be only a modified 
form of akh = aka (water). It occurs in many expressions which allude to what is wet, 
moist, fluid. 
Snow : tkhgiiu, ikhgiu.—The syllable ikh seems to be the same which we meet with 
in the word tkhtche (rain). Should it be a modified form of akh or aka (water) ? 
Lightning : okho shuglawattchi.—The first part of this compound is okho (fire). 
Day: madji.—The same word as for world, as mentioned above. 
Noon: madjilebate.—Madji (day); lébate seems to mean middle half, as we have 
midday, German mittag, French midi, ete. 
Midnight: duelébate.—Due (night), and duelébate, probably a compound like the 
English midnight, German mitternacht, French minuit, ete. 
Evening: dueliimA derivative of due (night), as we likewise use night often for 
evening, to-night, ete. 
Yesterday : dud.—Due is the word for night. There may be some connection 
between the two words, as we find something similar in other languages, as, for instance, 
in Russian and in some of the Turco-Tartar dialects. 
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