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carora, gahnee in Cherokee ; dog cheeth Tuscarora, cheer Nottoway, 

 keethlah^ keira Cherokee ; Fire ocheeleh Mohawk, otcheere Tuscarora, 

 cheela, cheera Cherokee ; man itaatsin Minekussar, atseeai Cherokee; 

 woman ehening Tuscarora, ageyung Cherokee ; boy doyato Huron, 

 atsatsa Cherokee j child yetyatsoyuK Tuscarora, oostekuh Cherokee ; 

 death guiheya Iroquois, choosa Cherokee ; face ookahsa Tuscarora, 

 issokuh Cherokee ; father aihtaa Hui-on, tawta Cherokee ; mother 

 nekets Tuscarora, akatchee Cherokee ; good ayawaste Huron, seoh- 

 staqua Cherokee ; girl yaweetseutho Wyandot, ayayufsa Cherokee ; 

 mountain onondes Seneca, &c., naune Cherokee ; tongue honacha 

 Iroquois, yahnohgah Cherokee ; water aouin Huron, ohneka Iroquois, 

 ommah Cherokee. The following are a few instances of the agree- 

 ment of Choctaw and Wyandot-Iroquois words. The Iroquois 

 entiekeh and the Choctaw neetak, day ; the Mohawk ojistok and the 

 Choctaw phitchek, star ; the Iroquois onotchia and the Choctaw noteh, 

 tooth ; the Cayuga haksaah and the Choctaw ushi, boy ; the Seneca 

 hanec and Iroquois johnika and the Choctaw chinkeh, unky, father ; 

 the Iroquois nenekin and the Choctaw nockene, man ; the Iroquois 

 kninonk and the Choctaw kanchi, to buy, are not accidental coin- 

 cidences, but indications of that relationship which a similarity of 

 character and modes of life render probable. 



A curious instance of the transference of a word from one meaning 

 to another is afforded in the Choctaw numeral three, tukchina. Now, 

 there can be no doubt that this is the Mohawk techini, the Caughna- 

 waga tekeni, the Cayuga and Onondaga dekenih, which however 

 denote two, instead of three. That tukchina and techini are the 

 same word is evident from the fact that eight, which in Choctaw is 

 untuchina, is in Mohawk sa-dekonh, in Caughnawaga sa-tekon and 

 • in Onondaga dekenh. I am disposed to think that the Choctaw form 

 is the true one, as the relation of eight to thi-ee gives five, the unit 

 genex-ally employed in compositions under ten. The Choctaw ten, 

 pocole, is the Oneida oyelih, the absence of the initial labial being a 

 necessity of Iroquois language. 



What the Cherokee- Choctaws are, such in a great measure must 

 be the Wyandot-Iroquois judging from the specimen of lexical or 

 glossarial connection already given. What their relation is to the 

 Peninsular family of Asia may easily be shown by comparison, 

 although in phUology it is not always true that languages which 

 resemble the same language resemble one another. There may also 



