516 COMPARATIVE VOCABULARIES. 
POMO FAMILY. 
Oak: tchishkale—Kale, meaning tree, enters into this compound, as in words oak- 
tree, maple-tree, ete. : 
Eagle: issul—This word is also used to designate the ‘ good spirit”, as mentioned 
when speaking of that expression. 
Claws: etch.—This word seems closely related to dtchtche (finger-nails). We see 
something analogous in Olamentke, where patchtchi means claws, and pitchtchi, finger- 
nails, the difference consisting merely in the vowels a and 7. Also, in Latin, we have 
unguis for finger-nail and the claws of animals, and ungula for claws, hoof, ete. 
Pelican : kaitchi.—This word is probably connected with kaitchiemta (crop of birds, 
maw). Also, in Olamentke, we have shabulun-aiti (crop-maw) and shebullu (pelican). 
The same we see in German, where kropf is the word for crop, mar, and kropfgans (lit- 
erally crop-goose) denotes pelican. ‘The word pelican is also used in German, as well as 
the expression krop/vogel (crop-bird). 
Diver (colymbus): ak-amaguga.—The first part of this word seems to stand for aka 
(water). 
Face: uumo.—In the first syllable (ww) we may easily recognize the word wwi (eye), 
just as we have in German, gesicht, which means eye-sight as well as face, or, in French, 
visage (face), which is likewise connected with words referring to sight. 
Temples ; shima-tchado.—The first part of this word seems to be shima (ears); the 
whole denoting probably the region of the head or forehead near the ears. 
Nape: meg-iakina.—The similarity between meg (the first part of this compound) 
and mekhia (neck) points to some relationship of those expressions; thus we have in 
German, for instance, nacken (neck) and genick (nape). 
Corpulence, obesity : atchabad-tchiimMeagreness, leanness: atchakavi.—-These two 
words seem to have one element in common, viz, atcha. As they are contraries or 
opposites, this atcha appears determined in opposite directions by the terms added; as, 
being in one case, atcha-bed tchi, and, in the other, atcha-kavi. Should atcha be the 
word for man (a corpulent man, a lean man), or should it here mean body—as we also 
say somebody, anybody, nobody—aud the compound mean a fleshy or corpulent body, 
and a lean body ? 
Saliva: ik-khe.—Perhaps ikh-ke,—ikh being the same word as we have seen in ikh- 
tche (rain) and ikh-giin (snow), and probably alluding to moisture, etc., as a modified 
form of akh, aka (water, fluid). 
Thirst: akadavdédo.—The first part of this is probably aka (water), the latter part 
meaning perhaps without, deprived of, ete, Also, in Olamentke, theeword water (livd) 
forms a constituent part of the -compound which means thirst. Something similar is 
found in several other languages. 
Boy: nata-kavi.—Girl : nata-kavi—WNata (child) enters as a part into these expres- 
sions; we should, therefore, expect somewhat like male child for boy, and female 
child for girl. But there seems to be no difference in the two words, unless it be in the 
accentuation when pronounced, as, for instance, in the Portuguese word avo and avo, 
which mean grandfather and grandmother. 
Young man: kaviia.—This word seems to be connected with kavi, the latter part 
of nata-kavi (boy). 
