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SCHEERER. 



Ta, appearing before each of these numerals, is an Egongot demon- 

 strative particle acting as article. 



Onbucoug is the equivalent, not of "one," but of "first." The word 

 occurs, in this or related forms, in several other passages. There is 

 evidently a typographical confusion between "u" and "n." Compare — 



A^a mucong toi Dios Ama, ta Dios Anac, at ta Spiritu Santo ? 

 Is first (superior) the God Father to God Son and to Ghost Holy? 



Aiian-a namucoug, auan-a naonod.de, ten sisiet ta enca Dios de. 

 There is not being first, there is not following behind among them, for only one 

 the Godship their." 



Ca in cadua, catgo, etc., is a prefix making ordinals from cardinals, not 

 only in Egongot but in several other dialects of Luzon. 



Eliminating these three factors from the above list, and observing the 

 composition of the numerals from "six" to "ten," we have all the necessary 

 material for establishing the following list of Egongot cardinals : 



Eng- 

 lish. 



Egongot. 



Pangasiuan. 



Eng- 

 lish. 



Egongot. 



Pangasinan. 



one 



two 

 three 

 four 

 five 



siyei (siei) 



dua 



tego 



apat 



tambiang 



isa 



dua 



talo 



apat 



lima 



six 



seren 



eight 



nine 



ten 



tambiang no siyet 

 tambiang no dita 

 tambiang notgo 

 tambiang no apat 

 tampo (tampoo) 



anem 



pito 



ualo 



siam 



samiwlo (samplo) 



The cardinals tego, tavibiang, and tampo {tampoo) occur as such re- 

 peatedly in the text; siet was quoted above in its restrictive form sisiet. 

 For comparison with a series of typical Philippine numerals the cor- 

 responding Pangasinan cardinals have been added. 



"One" is expressed in Egongot by a word, siet or siyet, which, compared 

 with Pangasinan as well as with any other Philippine dialect, shows 

 hardly any affinity, at least not prima facie. 



Prom "two" to "four" Egongot uses numerals which, though varying in 

 form, are the common property of all these dialects. The characteristic 

 variation in the case of the 'numeral "three" in Egongot is the change 

 from general Philippine I ot: dio g. The same change, typical for Egon- 

 got, is seen in such other words as gema, "hand" (Tagalog lima), gahe, 

 "male" (Tag. lalaki), uge, "again," "anew" (Tag. ull), etc. It is this 

 sound-change which accounts also for the form "Egongot" instead of 

 "Ilongot," the change from i to e being the ordinary fluctuation of these 

 vowels. 



"Five" is expressed, not by lima, in which all Philippine dialects agree, 

 and which, as we have just seen, would be here gema, but by the idiomatic 

 term tambiang, formed of a prefix tarn, (cf. tampo) before a stem, biang. 



' Op. cit., p. 19. 



