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(vanaUle to /a, /e, kc.) le the plural form, and it niay ha tLjriveii 

 fi-om *2, or vice ve^sa. In 8 (2, 10), the root for 2 h;is tfie forms 

 e» ye, in Tain., Mat., Tod.« en, yen in tha otlier dial<?cts, as in tUe 

 Uraoij 2 (en-</iflrtK In 12 it is ei-, ira, ra and e or ne. In 20 it 

 iru, ir, iri (in Toda yr, e, i, and in Karnatiika i). 



The root for mn, corresponik wiilj the labial definitive, u-ii|ii 

 the pronouiinal plural elera™t, and wiili the lafdal root for 1, thm 

 givint; indication of a primary binary scale in which the term fur :3 

 i-etiinied to the rool for 1, (2, 1). In higher ntinihers (13, 30 

 &c ) it ^jjnerally retains the form inti, la Dr Stevenson's Karim- 

 taka list 13 is hufl-t/w-b-ni, in wliicli h repi'esents ran and lahia- 

 lises (he n of th« cunjunctive -ia. 



Tii€ root lor 4, nul, nar, «on, (if we include tho final of fhefir-*? 

 fyllable of tlie Icirn), aiipears to be a repetition and reduplication 

 of ra 2 (U e. 2 dual, as in many other langun^^es). In 14 it k nal, 

 n or an (pa-n-ka, paU/Vi-an-ku). In 40 it is nar, nal. It is r*ro- 

 babte that the k postfix wus adopted instead of that in /, d, kc. 

 to distinguish it fiotn the I'Oot. Thk is aupported by die fact that 

 in tho higher nurabecs the other numerals lose the poss^'ssive [>Obl- 

 fix, while 4 loses ku k ordy and retains I, The cloae&t forc'iirij 

 terma for 4 have a final 1, n, kc. (isila, m>l, nan kc.) 



The higher roots present little that is tan^rible. But there is evt- 

 denllv a connection between tlie^e very elliptic and undefined high- 

 er roots and the two first of the lower series, 1, 2, 3. 5 is ain, van, 

 an, or ai, ya, ayi, et. As the hijrher as well as the lower nuinbei's are 

 formed from three elements, on &c., mu &c., and ir, er, &c., it is 

 not probable that ai, &e., involves any fresh root. As i, e, is only 

 found in the root for 2, and represents it in some other terms, it 

 may do so here also. In the Toda ev'bod, 50, 5 la represented by 

 er 2. The term in Toda at least, was lljerefore 3, 2, (as in Kol)^ 

 and as the a of ai can hirriJy be a rerauant of the terra lor ij 

 (unless mnm-lmdit was the primary form and not mu/trtt -rrat///, 

 which is improbable), we inupt explain ni, et, as a phonelic varia- 

 tion of e, if we consider it as 3, 2. In some forms n, ya, represent 

 the e or i, and in 6 it is also represented hy a. There is another 

 and — despite the Union and Ko! terms— more probable explana- 

 tion of the S. Draviri.in 5. In many quinary systems the term for 

 5 is tbe riW)t for 1, or a merely phonefic variety of it, on the same 



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