■THNOLOQT OF TffB IXDO-PACnFIO rSLiWDS* 7 



Ibrm as in the SGniiiic 1 (akh— ), while in 6, 7 and 8 It retmrna to tlia 

 iibifMJl lorm it preserves in 2 antl 3. 



Th#» older Atrienn terntti— th* Berber, SlifUnli^ Timani, D«)Ifi— retain 

 tlie 9tbil>iirt and tl(-nit«l lorm ot'tltH Inititil untt^ and the iLgtpiiao (B) 

 hoa ir. wittiouf tli« ItUtstL [See '\frfcan Nnrncrals, 3, 5. J 



The term is »'iTii!ar to tbe coniiiton h'cylhic unit in k, s &.c which 

 ippears hi 1.3, h utnl hi. her niimUers. Expnifiles of itj occiirft'iiey in 

 6 arc kri'/R-^c/i K.Hiii!<ii'htitkaii, whiuh reappears in the sibilant tunti la 

 the Samoitiiie. 3n-Wj'i2-/a4^/ir AO-bn-riggo, »ii-7i»^2iJir, arKl iu the (iental lorm 

 lit the Mongi>liiiti ta-^rm, ta-&u. • 'I'ha Kamschatkmi aud Samoiede 

 terms aft >rd examjdei^ like the Semitic ut'a Hecc^ndary poattix^ and Kbow 

 that iu tlivA^ Ifingtiiigf'a al^o the labtnl had lost itii priranry quaUtivo 

 force an I rnerjjed in the root wlii?n th*' native postfix was t«ui»eradded» 



B. The E^vftrian tn, tiu, tf", in 50 litin,, teuf, was probaLly a tativa 

 tiTiit derived from \ \w dprntail •Infinitive and df iHDnatraiitfc (eomp. m-t\x-J' 

 '^he/* en-tu-j *'8he"t m "-he ki'J* ta, ti,.te *'ihW* fern , tai^thift/' tui 

 relative lem.) In ihti Analognud f orm su ii wan probably the oldest 

 form of thti^ibilanr, deatui and orutturat unit« It ia still preservtid in 

 tbe Babylonian 60, eii-au ur 3u-«i^ and in the initial element of the 

 Semitic *2, 3, 6,7 ami 6 the sibilant nlno kerpa ii* place, in the oldeF 

 African forms of the ^^r^mittc 5 (A) it ta also retuinedi, aa we luava seeu^ 

 to the Ibruia i)u aud tm. 



Six. 



6 is simply the unit— for 5, 1 in. tbe prfvftlent dbilnnt form, Egyp^ 

 tian preserves I lu» lubial postfix of the archaic raotlier system s-f itor s-dp, 

 fl-cw, but ill 01) has ilic pure unit or dirfinitive se (am in 100 she, and 

 10{K>»bii)i. Tliij IvuskariHU S4>j is the snnic rerm. t^emiitu haa si, si-ta, 

 Be->te t'eifi.^ f>\^lh-ta vuihc. ArttlWc, »hE-*hiih m<isc, she-.sh fem Hebrew, 

 shi-tta masc.f slic-t/i-m. tJliaidce, sha-t-iri (iam, ha-t-iJ Sluhrab, se-d- 

 ist Atnb., ^-iUishte Titfrt*, sc-d-w Berb., su-tb Shillah 'fhcse terms 

 are the sa.m« 88 the Indo-Iiuro[man s!ia-t, sba-sb 5tc and the i^cythic 

 double \ur%M t»t thn «'ibllant, dental and guttural unit in G (chu-t, kn-t 

 Jfci-.)» 7 (»is S(c.). 100 Ac Tb*} Himryaritic and derivtitive AfricMh forma 

 gh^w that thi 8«cotid dbilaijt or deiitui is not a aecondury postfixj and 

 IhiU the Seruitii'. ti-ruk vvh:^ iuimeuiately derived froui the double uitit. 

 Thii* form wa^i an tindinic aemitico-Libyan lerm for I probably Ib- 

 loiniiie, but Ht^ it in be»i preserved m a let uary serks (3, % 9), the Kiiemi- 

 tic (} may be d dual, 



sa-hfl, sa-be fern, sa-ba-^a mafc. At., slii-bali masc. 8b»*ba 

 fetn llebr., sbi-bt*!} rmse- ahe-ba />/n Chuld , ba-ba-iW Muhrsh, s^h* 

 u«' Garo, f!iu-bu-/« l'ig»"e, Sf.-bn.*, Bu-bha-i Aniharic, i^e-l-ech, 

 Eg^-ifier/, sB-j/ Btrb »hndb-J Eg. zo3-pi Ea*k 'Fbi* js tb« Int^o- 

 Kuropcun sa-p-f amJ Ugrian sa-b^/, &o in which the basia aa-6, 

 Bi-jw&c. is the .-iibilatit utiit with the archaic labial quulitive poettix. 

 The Egy p'inn^nd Kuflkarinn unit prfserveft tbe doufde foriu found in 

 the Us^i inw ^is-iVrt &c , in the >eimtic and Indo-Earopeau 6,audini 

 several A irittun terms. The term, in its originnl form, waa tt, 1. See 

 Indo-Eurn|j('uii anil ;^cylhic Nmuerals A ^tntiar form ol the tmit ia 

 preserved iu the Egy|}tiau aud i2owitico>£gypttaa 8. 



