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Of TUB IN DO PACIFIC tflLANDt. 



v&"railk", GiJla an-^r?*; ffdl-wj the body % A;mfb-kel, Tiprre n-kal- 

 at GtiM a-k&l-uf-rttr, k^m-tm **fisli"j Adaiel kuU-™, llumir 

 Ajrldko raud-;;/' "sheep*', niurroo; Adajel kok-*/Zf "stari''; {,t'l-v/> '*kit'', 

 firuni c^iiikti; ker-«i "near"', hei*-Hi» Shilio jruk-i/i»"ciuiiel'^, Sshiho ra-ku- 

 J» i>au:ikilj rjikj-i,'j Aduid; "teeth" Arkiko, ii-^/A- rftunuul], ir-Zcu 



Fnlashji; urr-w^, "twi;»u«'' riaumiili, ni--}(ffu (Jiilla, jiriWi/ Uiirrur. Tlia 

 Bij«harii 2 k prubiibJy therefore an axvlmic ivna of the numeral as it ex- 

 isted in the GuVn t'nmily, imd tlie correct aiudyais would appear to be tnal- 

 vh, Tim 13 uotitirmed by tfi'ia-tim-ii 7 (5, 'J } m wijk-b the lahijil keei>3 

 itjJ place the rout, nnd by yha 7 uf Hliiho, aii^-hen, and of Lhuikaii, mid- 

 aene,iii wliich the root lia-s iti<tiilHbn£i,an(lwhieh 1 htive aireadv ideufihed 

 with the common Afiicaii bar, bel &c, i,M"heShilmuiid l/«iikiiijHpit ti ves 

 tlie same root for 2^bahr, bahaiUjaiidki'iHi^fuuiitl u: Ma.u^vaKjp , val-ii. The 

 Shaii|^al]n mt t itua 1 iri a pituilar exiimple of lh<' Inhinl o» i urriri^'" bodi at 

 an irutial md liiial. The Uiilk 7 also retains the labial pt sttix -bn. The 

 Bishaii mnl may the:efore be coiisiidered ua i.iiii{i|y a variation ol the x^i- 

 lotic form of the eomtiion Afrii-an 2^ bar &c. The terms under ( c ) would 

 thus apfiear to bt* lual-;/*, lu-uw, dU-ffl», ie-J«s hi-mUy m-nta^ h-fta^ la- 

 fif/fff ill which tlin mot vowel souienmei* tnkff ihe slender fona, 



m in the JJolJa I e-le^ Zimbian bi-3i kt\ The ilala*>ot*i| ternj, m iike lam- 

 n^r, becomes mii, which approarimatf-;* to Ibe archaic f^ejiiititi forui of the 

 Baine term lost in 2 but presi'rved in 4 {'I dual ) ar-/w lie Tuinali 

 M-vm, 4 f)rejser\'eB a tbrm of the ori(-iiial iioj*tfix ."iiniJar l(j the Utilla -nhg 

 "tfjiw. Amonu^it the corrent Spmitie terais for 2 lle^)' " m f a labial 

 |j3i<tfix- Ju the hifttoncal eondifioij ol the *STnitic h liume* 

 ra!s, savel, ur^ substantive luit f|uuIiHve, l li<"yliu\c ^ ionns for 

 inaBculiae and feminine, lh<? fein. iK^inir, him ever, Urtcd tur inaw:uhii# 

 woitb*, and the other form, \\ itlioiit the lero. Jhml, for lena. words. tho 

 numeraJ postiixes mu^t have been ori^'-inally (|ualitive, it is probabJe thai 

 iJi the eru of the ^vraito-LibviUi liimiati'on when tlip nexud vaiititioii*. 

 of the tlHfinitive were in full ii>e, the unit ttj<»k sU the Uetiuitive j)Obtlixea| 

 and the hiij^-hei' numbera aU thriiw which had it plural iijtpjicuMon. Tha 

 lalml was mascnline and plural, althou^ch origiiinlly .siiig-iiltir or indefinite j 

 the liquid 1, n, r, d waa al>o plural; i fern, aiid plural; u pluial &c. In 

 llie most nrchfuc ]mhnl the imit itmUably itr>elf vuiied with the sex. 

 Hie dental and i+ibiiimt tZrf, tuiy hare bf^en the /an. urnt, and thtf labkl 

 the mn»c., nnd in tbi* higher nunibcTy, which were but compound* of uuit^ 

 the distinction may have bmi maintJiinf d. Tlioae teimsi in which the la* 

 bitil oecura at« a n ot or pu>ttijt. were j rolwhly the ori^iinal nia^c-uhiie nu- 

 liieralj!. 'Jheir ob^:enra^i^^n, eoiicrt^Ui n and i» u pJienomnion 



eimilar to the decay ancJ hi>^^ nf the raasculine d* iinitive in the 

 glo-^s-tiriei* frenerBlly, anve in iJiitteniot, and the ppmstencc of the. 

 femhune. It ^wius po:i5ible to exfilain in this mode the oripij:ol currency 

 of two terms fnr *i, fe-ri-^w, ha-x-ha^ m-^-uh, bi-Ti-hit kv. maac. ana 

 B-m-tey Wt-na-mt o-il-U &e. fera,. The vowel ina^' al*o have even in . 

 thei^e urehuic iomi Imd a wesual power hitr, ta-nt kc, bcinjr a eoMinon 

 and ba-ria ffin. ii no. The ma^c. labial ro<it they have bttit the pruicipal 

 term <v him the Si juilie i?y;^tem w«s nr>t cnrrietl to Aliiui, mlhouyh the 

 feou root; afterward:} became tlie more important in the t5emiUt; luutjuages. 



It ia cltmr, on a corapuriiJon of all the Sendtic and Afnean t-emts, thai 

 the ulr male arehaic root ia the lifjuid — na, ne, in, ntm, iiu, ru!i, n, r Hemi* 

 t^f-Kg-yptiaoj ij, rij le, lo, r, 1, de, te, dni, sq ^v. Aixiwui— j thttt it v/m - 



