166 THE SUBANU. 
statement of ninety-nine as (Tavara apud Ray) oloto wohepalt hi hilage 
po nima luaga hi tutu po aitutu po wohepali ‘‘ men four they die and hands 
two they finish and foot it finishes and four.”’ 
I have written of Indonesia in the foregoing paragraph that the 
decimal arithmetic has come a little more slowly. Perhaps it would be 
better to say that it has come a little less surely, for the reckoning has 
some sort of story to tell us; uma appears in but 17 variants in 55 
languages of the Malay Archipelago, ovo in 32 forms in 40 languages, 
forms which diverge so widely from the primal onom that I can account 
for them by no law of the phonetic of these languages at present known 
to me and which I should not venture to include in this list if it were 
not that I find them occurring with other number words which are 
undoubtedly Polynesian. I do not profess to understand what under- 
lies this variety in the upper decimals of Indonesia; but this fact is 
clear: these languages have been conservative of the form of the digits 
of the first hand; of the fingers on the other hand they have been 
reckless in mutilation. 
105. fitu seven; Subanu pitu id. 
hiss = Likkilikki. 
i-hise Lambell. 
fitu Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Niué, Uvea, 
Fakaofo, Marquesas, Aniwa, 
Sikaiana. iss Lamassa. 
vitu Viti. 
whitu Maori. fitu Teluti, Matabello. 
hitu) Tahiti, Manahiki, Rapanui, Mar- fiti Gah. 
quesas. fito Malagasy. 
itu Rarotonga. fit Tobo, Teor, Mysot. 
fiku Liueniua. lep—fit Gani. 
hiku Hawaii. 
hith Rotuma. 
ahito Paumotu. 
pitu Subanu, Kolon, Java, Menado, Bo- 
langhitam, Salibabo, Amblaw. 
pitu-ano Bouton. 
| ga-pitu Sulu. 
fitu Neggao. |  ka-pitu Sanguir. 
fita Le Maire. | pidu Bima. 
fik Mafoor. | pito Visayan, Wayapo, Massaratty, 
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fiak Dorey. Bontoc Igorot. 
vitu Arag, Nggela, Vaturanga, Bugotu. pety Basakrama. 
vitsu Kowamerara. | witu  Awaiya. 
wijtsou. Le Maire. hitu) Tihu, Iliwaki, Saparua. 
bitu) Omba. hito Cajeli. 
en-hit Ahtiago. 
itu Mahuan, Liang, Morella, Lariko, 
bi’u Wango. 
piru Tagula. 
pi’u Fagani. Caimarian, Wahai. 
pit Misima. itu-a Batumerah. 
pik Brierly Island. tusu-_ Kayan. 
hi’u ~—- Ulawa, Saa. tujuh Malay. 
hit Nokon, Suralil. tujoh Salayer, Baju. 
it Laur. turoh Dusun. 
mau-it King. 
For seven the Indonesian runs truer to the Polynesian type than 
for six. The only doubtful point lies in the tusu group; this may be 
explained as tu of the primal stem with terminal accretion; against this 
explanation militates the fact that nowhere in the three oceanic areas 
does tu appear as carrying the seven sense; it is more reasonable to 
regard this as the intrusion of an alien stem bearing this partial resem - 
blance. ‘This seems the more likely interpretation, since tusu is accom- 
