The Numerals. 25 



Malay sambilan, 9, is, by change of t to I, for samhitan ; 

 cf. Segaar sapuli, Onim saputi, 9. The final n of sambilan 

 is an emphatic (see § 2, 2). Onim saputi is for sam-puti, 

 as Fate lijiti, is for lim-fiti, and Malay sami-hilan for 

 sam-hitan, all equally being " five-four," or 9. 



§ 12. Turn now to the Red Sea group. The Bishari 

 has 1 engat [engaro), 2 malooh (maloho), 8 mih (mehay), 

 4 uddig (fadyg), 5 ib (eyyih), which compounded give 

 6 suggoor (assagour), 7 seramah (essaraona), 8 sumhai 

 (essar)ibay, essamb-ay), 9 shedig (ogaonhay). For the first 

 five of these see above, §§ G-10. The b (for m) in seramah, 

 7, is emphatic (§ 2), and rania is identical with loob, 2, 

 originally looma, i.e., luma. The ^oor of suggoor, 6, is iden- 

 tical with the gat of engat, 1 ; the /lai of sumhai, 8, with 

 the /i, or hay, of Tnehay, 3 ; and the di^ of shedig, 9, with 

 uddig [fadyg) 4 (for the final ^, see § 2, 4, and § 9). Here 

 then we have exactly the same system as the Oceanic, § 11, 

 and the article s is the same as the Oceanic article s, § 11 ; 

 even as in ogamhay, 9, we have the same article k as in Api 

 hoveri (for kam-veri) 9. In Galla 6 is ja, or dzha. In 

 Danakil and Shiho 6 is leheye, lelehe, leh ; 7, onelhene for 

 ma-lhama (Java ^oetu for me-luona) ; 8, hahara, vahr 

 (Friendly Islands varoo, N ew Guinea (Forrest) vjar) ; 8, Bishari 

 is sumhai (kai, 3), and Somauli sedeid, for sem-deid (sudde, 

 8). For 9 we have in Danakil segala, compare Sumatra 

 sekuru-ng. Thus in the Red Sea group we have in the 

 first part of the compound words for 6-9 the articles I, s {t), 

 and g (k), and only in the Danakil and Shiho 7 and 8 no 

 article. But in this group in the compound word for 7 the 

 final part, or word for 2, is never without the article : thus 

 Somauli t'dubba (te-lwrna), Galla toorbah (tu-luma), and 

 Shiho mellien {m.Q-lhama), 7. 



The literary Shemitic words for the numerals 6-9 are 

 compounded like those of this Red Sea group and the 

 Oceanic. In Ethiopic we have them as — 6 sedes (Heb. shesh 

 is a phonetic corruption for shedesh, Arabic sit for sides), 7 

 seb'e, 8 seman, 9 ts'e, and in Sokotra 6 yitah, 7 yibi'ah, 8 

 tamani, 9 sa'ah. 



Carefully noting whether the article is the same or different, 

 •compare — 



6 Fate la-tes, with se-des 



6 Ambrym Use, with shesh 



7 Yanikoro temhi with seb'e 



