292 SOME LAWS OF PHONETIC CHANGE 



Iroquois form is wennokera, a term illustrating the first law as well 

 as the third. 



The Basque dialects furnish us with two words for hair, ileac and 

 biloac. In Iroquois also we find arochia and werochia or ahwerochia. 

 The first form corresponds with the Lesghian ras, the Aino ruh, and 

 the Dacotah arra. In the second we meet with the Circassian abra. 

 The final ac of ileac and biloac is the Basque mark of the plural, and 

 is the same in origin and in function as the Iroquois Ice. 



Although not entitled to rank as a law of phonetic change, it is 

 worthy of note, as tending to simplify the exhibition of the common 

 origin of Basque and Iroquois, that the Iroquois frequently differs 

 from the Basque by inserting a dental between the letters n and r,for 

 purposes of euphony. 



Thus the Iroquois kanadra, bread, is the Basque janhari, janari, 

 food ; for the initial j, as we learn from M. Lecluse, though pro- 

 nounced as in French in the canton of Soule, and as in German in 

 that of Labourt, assumes the power of the Spanish letter in Gui- 

 puzcoa, and may be represented by kh. 



The verb to love in Basque is onerechi, oniritzi, in which it is easy 

 to recognize the Yukahiri anoorak, and the Japanese noroke. In 

 Yuma the word is awvonoorch. Three Iroquois forms are endoorooh- 

 quah, aindooro&kwa and enorongwa. 



A large number of words in Basque and in Iroquois coincide in 

 sound and in signification, and for such coincidence I have so far 

 been able to discover no law. Among these may be mentioned the 

 Iroquois garioha, bird, which is the Basque choria, the Lesghian zur, 

 the Aymara chiroti. The final ti of the Aymara has also appeai'ed 

 in hinata, dead, as compared with the Iroquois kenha and the 

 Lesghian clvana. The Iroquois white, which English missionaries 

 write kearagea and the French kenraken, is the Basque churia, the 

 Japanese kiroi, the Loo Choo shirusa, the Lesghian tchalasa, and 

 the Quichua yurac. An Iroquois word for dog is tschierha, the Sho- 

 shonese schari, the Mizjeji (Caucasian) tkari, the Georgian djogori, 

 and the Basque zacurra. So the Basque hezurra, bone, is the 

 Iroquois ohskereh, and the Cherokee ookolah ; and the Basque aztala, 

 leg, is the Iroquois okotara, and the Lesghian uttur. While geree, 

 an Iroquois word for tree, agrees with the Basque chara and the 

 Quichua kullu, meaning wood, another Iroquois form, kaeet, is the 

 Lesghian hueta, guet, the Basque zuaitz, zuhaitz, and the Aztec 



