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quahuit, quauitl. The Kliitan terms for thunder are like, the Semitic 

 gulyad. The Lesghian seems to furnish the type in yurgur, which 

 is approached by the Basque curciria, ihurzuria, and aggravated in 

 the Koriak urgirgerkin. The Georgian modifies the harsh sound by 

 dropping one of the r's, as in gurgin and kuchili, the latter of 

 which corresponds with other Koriak forms, kyhal, kyigala, and with 

 the Kamtchatdale Kychichlizen. The Choctaw has the two forms 

 jyrajaa and hiloha ; the Yuma stops short at aker ; but the Iroquois 

 furnishes a word kawseras that agrees more perfectly with the Old 

 World forms. 



I have already referred to the Yuma dialects (the Yuma or 

 Cuchan, Maricopa, Mojeve, Dieguno), as valuable members; of the 

 Khitan family for comparative pui'poses. Two- Yuma woi'ds for 

 coid are xetchur and hutseelo. The former accoi'ds with the Dacotah 

 hootsheere and the Iroquois otsorai, which the Basque changes to> 

 otsbero, while in hutseelo we find the Lesghian chuatzala. The con- 

 nection of the Iroquois onyare, neck, with the Basque cinzurrn 

 might seem doubtful, as the Basque sibilant and guttural prefixes. 

 are generally more conspicuous by their absence than by their pre- 

 sence. But the Yuma form henneeil shows that it is the Troquois 

 which errs by default in this respect. The Yukahiri jomuel restores 

 that original form which would naturally have been looked for in 

 the Basque, and leads the way to the Lenca ampshala. The Lesghian 

 word gabur, which could nover be evolved out of cinzurra, naturally 

 rises out of jomuel. 



The Iroquois onuste, maize, and the Basque arto, artho, have little 

 in common. The Yuma tarrichte, however, dropping the initial t 

 and applying the first rule as if it were a Basque word, becomes 

 annichte. Another Yuma form is terditch, with which may be com- 

 pared the Lesghian zoroto and the Circassian nartuch, and with these 

 the relation of the Basque arto, artho is. easily perceived. 



Still another Yuma word meaning to speak is atchahquerck. This 

 is undeniably the Aino itakyuru. But another Aino dialect gives 

 idakuwa, and this prepares us for the Iroquois atakia and the Basque 

 itzegin. The nearest word to the Yuma hawed, meaning a river, is. 

 the Aymara hahuiri or hawiri, and this is plainly the Lesghian uor,. 

 chyare, and the Basque uharre, uharka. In chyare, by the appli- 

 cation of the first rule, we detect the Iroquois kahionha. 



