ANALOGY of words. 
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following are Pareni words, which I carefully compared 
Yvitb Maypure words.* 
PARKNl TONGUE. 
MAYPURE TONGUE. 
The sun 
Cainosi 
Kie (Kiepurig) 
The moon 
Ken 
Kejapi (Cagijapi) 
A star 
Ouipo 
Urrupu 
The devil 
\ mtthami 
Vasuri 
" ater 
Uueni (u() 
Oueni 
Fire 
Casi 
Catti 
J.igh tiling 
Eno 
Eno-imaf 
Hie head 
Ossipo 
Nuchibucu ^ 
The hair 
Nomao 
Tlte eyes 
Nopurizi 
Nupuriki 
The nose 
Nosivi 
Nukirri 
The mouth 
Nonoma 
Nunumacu 
The teeth 
Nasi 
Nati 
The tongue 
Notate 
Nuare 
The ear 
Notasine 
Nuakini 
The cheek 
Nocaco 
The neck 
Nono 
Noinu 
The arm 
N'ocano 
Nuana 
The hand 
Nucavi 
Nucapi 
The breast 
Notoroni 
The back 
Notoli 
The thigh 
Nocazo 
File nipples 
Nocini 
The foot 
Nocizi 
Nukii 
The toes 
Nociziriani 
The calf of the leg 
Nocavua 
A crocodile 
Cazuiti 
Amana 
A fish 
Cimasi 
Timaki 
Maize 
Cana 
Jomuki 
Plantain 
Paratana (Teot)§ 
A rata 
, )f * The words of the Maypure language have been taken from the works 
a v ^ an ^ ^ervas. ^ collected the words placed between parentheses from 
young Maco Indian, who understood t-he Maypure language, 
1 am ignorant of what ima signifies in this compound word. Eno 
in Maypure the sky and thunder, lna signifies mother. 
syllables no and nu, joined to the words that designate parts of 
e body, might have been suppressed; they answer to the possessive 
* r °nou n m y 
^ ^ e may be surprised to find the word teot denote the eminently 
*J u tritive 
e. 
cent 
substance that supplies the place of corn (the gift of a bene- 
divinity), and on which the subsistence of man within the tropic* 
