Toe ene 
366 JOHN FRASER. 
The Ethiopic and Amharic word for 2 is not the same as the : 
word for 2 in all the other given Semitic dialects with which the 
Oceanic is identical, but compares most closely with its Syriac and 
South Arabian form, in which the original 7 is changed tor. So 
the Assyrian isten=1. (in which the 7 is non-radical) is not the 
same as the word for 1. in all the other dialects, and which is used 
in Assyrian also. 
The Oceanic word for 8, valu (oal, olu, wolw), occurs in Savu 
in the form of panu, in Malay as lapun; from the Oceanic alone 
we could not tell whether the / or m was the original consonant, 
though we should be justified in regarding lapan as more original 
than panwu or valu. Lapan is held to be identical with the com- 
mon Semitic word for 8, tamanz, and others as above, the m hav- 
ing become p (a change already noted under the word for 9) and 
the initial ¢ has become /: in panu, valu, the initial consonant is 
elided as in the words for 2, 6, 7, and 9, already remarked on. 
In the Oceanic word for 5 the final original s is elided as in 
Mahri and Sokotra, and dimy is for khemah, khomo, &c., by the 
very common change of k tot; dimy readily passed into lume (¢ 
tol). In Aneityum (New Hebrides) this word actually accurs as 
both kma (kima), and yma (jima). See the late Rev. Dr. John 
Inglis’ “ Aneityumese Dictionary,” (Williams and Norgate). 
The Oceanic word for ‘one,’ te, &c., compares with the common 
Semitic word given above. The Sumatran do, Fijian dua, and 
aida in the Oceanic list is manifestly identical with the word 
occurring in Amharic as and (ande), Tigre ade, Assyrian edu (kh 
or hh in the other Semitic dialects is generally e in Assyrian, or 
mere spiritus lenis); and thes of Malay asa, azsa is to be regarded 
as standing for the original d, as, of course, does ¢ in te, &c., Efate 
dialect zte. In very many dialects the word for 1. occurs in both 
forms, in the one having ¢, in the other s; in Efate, for instance, 
this is the case. 
The Oceanic word for 10 has hitherto been an unsolved puzzle: 
but it is only reasonable to think that if the Oceanic numerals 
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