a 



Eight, 



tha-ma-n, Bha<-ma-ii /m., tlia-ras-ni-i« ftuue Arabic, »ba-nao-n-aA 

 masc, ahe-nion-eA./'m Hebrew, te-raa-n-jn ina#c,, ta^m-n-*/<rffi Cfaai- 

 dee» tlitii-man>i<f Mahrah, tbu-m Gara, Bbu-mun-te 'V\\ite^ s«*ii]in-t 

 Amh., sb-mcD Eg.» t-foi Herb , t-emji-i SJjiJIab, This term is evidently 

 not Ihrmed from 2 or 8, but t'rnm 3 in tb« Egypliao form (i. ft. 6| 8, 

 as ia all tbo Alricaa and many other systeitifi). 



Mm* 



ti-s', ti*ga\/J»ni. ti-sa-?a ma*c Arabic, *p-sha ym, ti-sbe-aA mase. 

 Hebrew, ChttMep, ssi-iif Mabnih, Gara, ze-tti Amb » i€-t<?-in Horragi, 

 za-te-»a fiafat, tisli-a/c Tigro, |.-sit, p-sb (|»-i8infl0), ilsa Berb.^ 

 tuan Sbillah, This ia a i^cj lbic form ol ine unit» occurring in the 

 Knmarhatknn flya f>f 1, Hungarian tiz 10 &c , and in the Mongolian 

 *lsi-8un fl, (1. 10). It is also Uio Sefliitic 6 au'l 3, ao ibat 9 is probably 3 

 trinai But ns the Arrican terma are generaliy 6< 4, i I im po.*»i bio tn at 

 ibe ^'emitic 9 islbe tf rni i'or 4 fouiid in several African langungefi, and 

 mjurring in S> ia lorms ainiiiar to ibe Semitic. Agau ai-za, sa-rfja, 

 fle-d»a 4, taHi-eba» se-ss«, se-s-^« 9, Gnnga ach-t-t b 4, dje-ta, ji-dfa 

 9; Sbangalla zaa-din, an-3B-tba 4,* sn-sa 0 The lull terms ara pre- 

 eervetl in aome Zimbian systems Mnkua (Jialectf ma-rhe-che, «tu-tye- 

 ty^i f-tye-ty«4j ma-tanu tia«ui ma-cbe-che. jnznnti-m-ti e-tye, libyanu 

 DB i-typ-tye, 6 and 4 (9). From tbi'sa lurma it might be inferred that 

 tlie '^'emitic 9 was also a term for 4, but it baa no resfmblance to*the cur- 

 rent 4 either in its contrarted or full form (»r-ba, war-ba fifc) It ap- 

 pears t<» be related however ts the current term tor 2» aT*d was probably 

 one of the forma in uae when the iiumcrab varied regularly with tbo 

 gender oi the noun. The Hebrew fern. sbc-ta-yw« is a siniilnr terra. In 

 the Semitic terms for 3 a similar VHriation occursij Arabic^ Hebrew Ac, 

 iaving ths-Ia-fj6, she-lo-sA, while Mabrab utid Gara sul-slitutfi the tien. 

 tal and guttural for the liquid tha lb it, tba k i/, nnd a like form 

 appeara to have existed in Kabylonian «ii-sn 60, with which tli« Ara- 

 haric 3, so.a, is cognate. II the Pemitic 0 be considered as 3 irinal its 

 resemblance (o ternia for 6 nnd 3 is explained 8nt even in the cur- 

 rent terms for 2 and 3 we have iound a radical rcsemblnnci?, so that a 

 resemblance between 9 nnd 3 or 6 does not oppt»se but raiber confirmi 

 an identifi' ation ofSaa ultimately 2 dual- Whether 9 be 3 trinai or 4 

 it agreed radically both with 3 aiid 4 becaiise these agree radically witk 

 sAcb other. 



Ten. 



At aah.ar, as^h-irj^wj. ash ara-Ya fem. Ar^, ai-ar-tf mase,, ee er fmt. 

 Beb , aa<ra mo^c , as arjfeTM CbabJee, ai'iah*r-i^ Mabreh, ish-r.iti{ Ga> 

 . ra, as-ur.^e Tig re, aa-ra, ae-ir Amh, 



B. men, I, nie-t, mn-t Eg. This is the Pcytbtc labia^nnit and post- 

 fir, ocrurring aa 10 in the same form^ in Tungusian nipnz (in 1 min). 

 But the Egyprian term is evidently the sefojid of the (Jcfinitives found 

 in 8 and 3 and here divested of the initial t^ibilant unit, which it retailU 

 la some other Airican lormi [See Atrican NumeLftbi 10 B. k} 



