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sicuti quum adnuimus et abnuimus, motus quidemille vel capitis vel 

 oculorum a natura rei quam significat non abhorret : ita in his vocibus 

 quasi gestus quidam oris et s^iritus naturalis est. Eadetn ratio est in 

 Grsecis quoque vocibus, quam esse in nostns animadvertimus." If 

 these observations are correct (of which I have no doubt), the pro- 

 nouns have been formed first, and then made use of (mostly with a 

 modification of the sound and of letters) as numerals likewise. 



4. It is evident that the word, doubt, comes from the word two ; for just 

 as theTamulians changed the Sanscrit dwa into tuvi, the Latins changed 

 duo into dubito, i.e. to be or to hesitate between two things; and, 

 according to the same analogy, the Germans have derived from zwei, 

 the word, zweifeln i. e. dubitare, to doubt. The word between comes 

 from the same root (zwei or dwa), pronounced in Nether Saxony, 

 tween or twen. 



7. Numeral, 3. 

 San, Jap. China, 

 sum, Thibet 

 se, si, Zend, Pers. 

 tri ) Sanscrit 

 tiri S in Tamul orth. 

 trin, Gipsy 

 trai, Multan 

 tri, treh, Bohem. 

 rpeis, rpia 

 tres, tria 

 drei, German 

 three, 



dri, Welsh 

 tritioh, Sanscrit 

 dritte, German 



Tpi709, 



Lertius, 

 third, 

 shelosh > rr n1 , 1>ri „ r 

 shloshah \ Hebrew 

 selaset, Arabic 

 tlieta, Maltese 

 tola, N. Guiana 

 tolu, Solomon & 



Cocoa-lsl. 

 toru, Taheiti 

 harom, Hung, 

 erek, Arm. 

 mundru, Tamul 

 muru, Karnataka 



Numeral, 4. 

 Xi, su, Jap. China 

 ji, Thibet 

 catvere, %rj , 

 cetro, l Zend 

 chaiur, Sanscrit 

 sadur, Sanscrit 



Tamul orth. 

 cahar, Pehlv. Pers. 

 car, Multan, Beng. 

 shtar, Gipsy 

 siyri, Wendish 

 ctery*, PoIonian» 

 ctyroi, Bohem. 

 shors, Armen, 

 dorr, Turk. 

 Teaaape<s 

 rerropc? > 

 Trnopes I Bonc 



} ancient 

 iriavpe<s > Greek and 



3 Aeolic. 

 pedwarorj w d v 

 peduor > vv elsn > 

 fiorer, Icelandic 

 four, 



vier, German, 

 negy, Hung, 

 arbn, Hebrew 



"ff"' l Tamul 

 nam, ) 



nalku, Karnataka 



Numeral, 5. 

 U, China 

 go, Japan 

 nga, Thibet 

 panj, Persian, Gipsy, 

 panjam Sans, in Tamul. 

 besh, Turkish 

 pet, Bohem. 

 irevre 



pump, pimp, Welsh 

 fiinf, German 

 fimm, Icelandic 

 five, 



hing, Armenian 



quinque 



6t, Hungarian 



hamash, Hebrew 



h 3m , a S Arabic and 

 hamoa ^ Maltese 



summus, Berbers in 

 Africa 



rima \ Moses IsL 

 lima, j TahUi 



lima, Solomon and 

 Cocoa-lsl. 

 Ceindu, Tamul. 

 Janju, vulgar Tamul, 

 eidu, Karnataka. 



* In the Bohemian, and other Slavonic dialects, the English sound of ch and tch is 

 expressed by a c with a diacritical mark, and in the Italian, by a simple c; the c with a 

 circumflex appears the most suitable letter to express the sound, and to avoid ambiguity in 

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