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MACHS MEALCHLSC CIS MUVALCHLS 
MACHS SEMPHALCHLS CIS CEALCHLS 
MACHS ZATHRUMS CIS ZATHRMSC 
if compared together, show that zathrum must be anEtruscan decade, 
totally different in its formation from the decades ending in -lchl. No 
such decade as zathrum, or anything the least like ft, is known in 
any Aryan or Semitic form of speech. If the Turanian languages 
can explain this decade as well as the other, the weight of our 
evidence is not simply doubled, but increased a thousand-fold. A 
single coincidence between the Etruscan and the Turanian decades 
might possibly be accidental ; that there should be two such co- 
incidences, both of them accidental, is quite incredible. 
Rejecting the ordinal suffix (s), the Etruscan decade is zathrum. 
ow, letter foi letter,^ this is the same as one of the Ycnisscian 
decades. We have — 
Etruscan z-a-th-r-u-m 
Yenissei s-ai-th-j-u-n 
The Siberian decade saithjun signifies “ forty.” The Yenisseian 
languages leave no doubt as to the composition of this numeral. 
The first syllable, sai-, means “four,” and the second syllable, 
- thjun , is the usual decadal suffix, equivalent to “ty.” Thus we 
have — 
kina = 2 
khin-thjun = 
20 
khala = 5 
khal -thjun = 
50 
we find this word thj 
’uh, meaning “ ten ” or 
languages from China 
“-I 
i a host of Altaic 
e have — 
to 
Mantshu 
DJUAN = 
10 
Mongol 
DJUN = 
10 
Samoyecl (Motor) 
DJIUM -- 
10 
Yakut 
DJEAN = 
10 
Turkish 
ON = 
10 
Ostiak 
JON == 
10 
V olga Finn 
KJEMENf = 
10 
Baltic Finn 
KYMMEN = 
10 
* The letter s is pronounced like the letter s in the word sugar. The 
sound of the Etruscan z was probably the same. The final n in saithjun 
is the nasal n, which is constantly interchanged with m. An Etruscan r 
answers to a Turkic j. (See Etruscan Researches, p. 206.) The letters r and 
3 are also interchangeable in Siberian languages. (See Schott, Tat; Svr . 
pp. 28, 29, 35.) 
t A primitive d or t sometimes becomes k in Finn, c. q. old Magyar turch 
= Finn kurku. 
