186 ASIATIC TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The Wyandot family has undoubtedly miscellaneous Asiatic affinities 

 in point of language. The remarkable term kanadra, denoting bi-ead, 

 is the Magyar kunyer, just as wish (five) is the Esthonian xoiis. 

 Rain in Mohawk is ayokeanore, a peciiliar form, and this is the 

 Turkish yaghmur ; and the Turkish besh (five) is also the Cayuga loish 

 and the Mohawk wisk. The Magyar kutya is the Tuscarora cheeth 

 (dog) and the Lapp oadze is the Huron auoitsa (flesh). The Mohawk 

 negative yagh is the Turkish yok, and waktare, an Iroquois word 

 meaning " to speak," is the Yakut ittare. Stone is odasqua in 

 Iroquois and tash in Turk, and tooth is otoatseh in Tuscarora, dish 

 in Turk. To hide is kasetha in Ii-oquois and kistya in Yakvit, and 

 field is kaheta in Iroquois and chodu in Yakut. The Onondaga 

 word jolacharota (light) is the Lapp jalakas, with an increment. 

 Two is ohs Mohawk, ausuh Tuscarora, and uch Turk, ews Yakut, 

 while seven is jadah in Mohawk, Oneida and Onondaga, and yeddi 

 in Turk. 



It may be asked why, when the Ugrian and Tartar languages 

 relate so closely to the Iroquois by unmistakable roots, I turn aside 

 to the Peninsular. I do so for various reasons : First, becaiise 

 certain peculiarities of Turkish and Ugrian grammar, such as personal 

 and possessive pronominal affixes to verbs and nouns, are wanting 

 in Iroquois. Second — Because the Peninsular languages are at least 

 as near in lexical affinity to the Iroquois as are the Ural-Altaic ; 

 and, thirdly, because the Choctaw-Cherokee dialects, which are 

 undoubtedly of Penins\ilar origin, are too like the Iroquois to admit 

 of separation. 



The Koriak origin of the Iroquois is given in the identity of the 

 Koriak war-god, Arioski, with the Iroquois Areskoui. The 

 resemblance of these names has often been noted, but it has been 

 rejrarded as a coincidence similar to that which exists between them 

 and the Greek Ares, curious, but of no scientific value.* Mr. 

 Mackintosh, in the little book to which I have alreadj^alluded, draws 

 many parallels between the manners and customs of the Koriaks and 

 the American Indians, several of the latter being Iroquois customs. 

 Unfortunately this industrious author regarded the American 

 aborigines en masse, and mixed up Koriaks and Tungus in his 

 comparisons. Still, his facts, to which I cannot now refer, are 

 valuable. Arioski is not the only Iroquois word in Koriak. The 

 Koriak or Tchuktchi khatkin, guetkin are the Iroquois hetken, bad ; 



