22 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



lib, tipi (ib, ipi) ib, Bishari 



amest, Amharic 

 amoos, Arkiko 

 lima, lierna, Hum alhhams, Arabic 



djini shun, Galla 



shan, Somauli 

 (sum., and essam, Bishari, 

 in the word for 8, see 

 below) 



For more, see below on the numerals 6, 7, 8, 9. 

 § 11. The Oceanic Numerals 6—9. 



Malaaaqv Malav Papuan Maori -Hawaiian 



Malagasy. Malay. (Fatese). (Samoan). 



6. enina anam latesa ono 

 (eni) 



7. fito tujuh larua fitu 



8. valo dalapan latolu valu 



(salapan) 



9. sivy sambilan lifiti iva 



1. All these Oceanic numerals are compound words, and 

 the first part of the compound in every case is the numeral 

 5, or a fragment of it, with or without an article, the second 

 or final part of the compound being the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4 

 (in 6, 7, 8, 9 respectively), of which 2 alone has sometimes 

 the article I prefixed to it: thus 6 is Jive-one, 7 five- two, 8 

 five-three, and ^five-four. 



2. This is plain enough in the Papuan, but not so apparent 

 in the other three branches. Hence even so able an 

 investigator as Gabelentz deemed it peculiar to the Papuan 

 numeral system, to which he gave the name of Quinary. It 

 is in these Papuan numerals, with their transparent structure, 

 that we get the clue to the exactly similar composition of 

 the others, and that, as we shall see, with certainty. 

 Fatese latesa, larua, latolu, lifiti are for lima-tesa, lima- 

 rua, lima-tolu, lima-bate, as is proved by a comparison of 

 dialects ; thus, for instance, in the neighbouring island of 

 Ambry m we have 1 hu, 2 ru (lo), 3 sul {s^), 4 vit {fir), 5 Urn, 

 which compounded give 6 limse (livse. Use, luse, melijjsies), 

 7 liuru (luru, melipo), 8 livsul (lisul, lusul, melipsl), 9 laifiet 

 (rafet, lafar, liafer, oneper). Those enclosed in brackets are 

 dialectical forms, and onelip is for melim., Santo molima 

 (§ 2, 7). Melipo, 7, is for melim-ua, the ua, 2, having no 



