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287.‘Avesta,’ Farg.xviii.34-5.

288.Wedgwood,Dic.,s.v.‘pigeon;’ Diez, ‘Etym. Wörterb.,’s.v.‘piccione.’

289.Bopp, ‘Gloss. Sanscr.,’s.v.‘go.’ See Pott,‘Wurzel-Wörterb. der Indo-Germ. Spr.,’s.v.‘gu,’‘Zählmethode,’p.227.

290.Pott,‘Doppelung (Reduplication, Gemination) als eines der wichtigsten Bildungsmittel der Sprache,’1862. Frequent use has been here made of this work.

291.For authorities see especially Pott, ‘Doppelung,’p.30, 47-49;W. v.Humboldt, ‘Kawi-Spr.’vol.ii.p.36; Max Müller in Bunsen, ‘Philos. of Univ.Hist.’vol.i.p.329; Latham, ‘Comp. Phil.’p.200; and the grammars and dictionaries of the particular languages. The Guarani and Carib on authority of D’Orbigny,‘L’Homme Américain,’vol.ii.p.268; Dhimal of Hodgson, ‘Abor. of India,’p.69, 79, 115; Colville Ind. of Wilson in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.iv.p.331; Botocudo of Martius, ‘Gloss. Brasil.’

292.Also Old High Germandizanddaz.

293.Max Müller,l.c.

294.J. C. E.Buschmann,‘Ueber den Naturlaut,’Berlin, 1853; and in ‘Abh. der K. Akad. d. Wissensch,’ 1852. An Englishtrans.in ‘Proc. Philological Society,’vol.vi.See De Brosses, ‘Form. des L.,’vol.i.p.211.

295.One family of languages, the Athapascan, contains bothappáandmamaas terms for ‘father,’ in the Tahkali and Tlatskanai.

296.See Pott,‘Indo-Ger. Wurzelwörterb.’s.v.‘pâ’; Böhtlingk and Roth,‘Sanskrit-Wörterb.’s.v.mâtar; Pictet, ‘Origines Indo-Europ.,’ partii.p.349; Max Müller, ‘Lectures,’2ndseries,p.212.

297.Facciolati, ‘Lexicon;’ Varro, ap. Nonn.,ii.97.

298.Plato, ‘Cratylus’, 90.

299.Mariner, ‘Tonga Islands,’vol.ii.p.390.

300.Crowther, ‘YorubaVocab.’; Burton, ‘W. & W.fromW.Africa,’p.253. ‘O daju danu, o ko mo essan messan.—You (may seem) very clever, (but) you can’t tell 9 × 9.’

301.Low in ‘Journ.Ind. Archip.’vol.i.p.408; ‘Year-BooksEdw. I.’ (xx.-i.)ed.Horwood,p.220.

302.Spix and Martius, ‘Reise in Brazilien,’p.387.

303.‘Tasmanian Journal,’vol.i.; Backhouse, ‘Narr.’p.104; Milligan in ‘Papers, &c., Roy.Soc.Tasmania,’vol.iii.partii.1859.

304.Oldfield in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’;vol.iii.p.291; Lang, ‘Queensland,’p.433; ‘Latham, Comp. Phil.’p.352. Other terms in Bonwick,l. c.

305.Sicard,‘Théorie des Signes pour l’Instruction des Sourds-Muets,’vol.ii.p.634.

306.Stanbridge in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.i.p.304.

307.Martius, ‘Gloss. Brasil,’p.15.

308.Kracheninnikow, ‘Kamtchatka,’p.17.

309.Gumilla, ‘Historia del Orenoco,’vol.iii.ch.xlv.; Pott,‘Zählmethode,’p.16.

310.The Eastern brokers have used for ages, and still use, the method of secretly indicating numbers to one another in bargaining, ‘by snipping fingers under a cloth.’ ‘Every joynt and every finger hath his signification,’ as an old traveller says, and the system seems a more or less artificial development of ordinary finger-counting, the thumb and little finger stretched out, and the other fingers closed, standing for 6 or 60, the addition of the fourth finger making 7 or 70, and so on. It is said that between two brokers settling a price by thus snipping with the fingers, cleverness in bargaining, offering a little more, hesitating, expressing an obstinate refusal to go farther, &c., comes out just as in chaffering in words.

311.Gilij; ‘Saggio di Storia Americana,’vol.ii.p.332 (Tamanac, Maypure). Martius, ‘Gloss. Brasil,’ (Cayriri, Tupi, Carib, Omagua, Juri, Guachi, Coretu, Cherentes, Maxuruna, Caripuna, Cauixana, Carajás, Coroado, &c.); Dobrizhoffer, ‘Abipones,’vol.ii.p.168; Humboldt, ‘Monumens,’pl.xliv.(Muysca).

312.Cranz, ‘Grönland,’p.286; Kleinschmidt, ‘Gr.der Grönl. Spr.;’ Rae in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.iv.p.145.

313.Milligan,l. c.; G. F.Moore, ‘Vocab.W.Australia.’ Compare a series of quinary numerals to 9, from Sydney, in Pott, ‘Zählmethode,’p.46.

314.Gabelentz, ‘Melanesiche Sprachen,’p.183.

315.W. v.Humboldt, ‘Kawi-Spr.’vol.ii.p.308; corroborated by ‘As. Res.’vol.vi.p.90; ‘Journ.Ind. Archip.’vol.iii.p.182, &c.

316.Kölle, ‘Gr.of Vei Lang.’p.27.

317.Schreuder, ‘Gr.for Zulu Sproget,’p.30; Döhne, ‘ZuluDic.’; Grout, ‘ZuluGr.’ See Hahn, ‘Gr.des Herero.’

318.SirW.Jones in ‘As. Res.’vol.ii.1790,p.296;E.Jacquet in ‘Nouv.Journ.Asiat.’ 1835;W. v.Humboldt, ‘Kawi-Spr.’vol.i.p.19. This system of recording dates, &c., extended as far as Tibet and the Indian Archipelago. Many important points of Oriental chronology depend on such formulas. Unfortunately their evidence is more or less vitiated by inconsistencies in the use of words for numbers.

319.Eyre, ‘Australia,’vol.ii.p.324; Schürmann, ‘Vocab.of Parnkalla Lang,’ gives forms partially corresponding.

320.‘Journ.Ind. Archip.’ New Ser.vol.ii.1858,p.118 (Sulong, Awang, Itam (‘black’), Puteh (‘white’), Allang, Pendeh, Kechil or Bongsu); Bastian, ‘Oestl. Asien,’vol.ii.p.494. The details are imperfectly given, and seem not all correct.

321.Ellis, ‘Madagascar,’vol.i.p.154. Also Andriampaivo, or Lahi-Zandrina, for last male; Andrianivo for intermediate male. Malagasylahy, ‘male’= Malaylaki; Malagasyvavy, ‘female’ = Tonganfafine, Maoriwahine, ‘woman;’ comp. Malaybâtina, ‘female.’

322.M.Eastman, ‘Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux,’p.xxv.

323.‘Journ.Ethnol.Soc.’vol.iv.(Akra); Ploss, ‘Das Kind,’vol.i.p.139 (Elmina).

324.H.Hale, ‘Ethnography and Philology,’vol.vi.of Wilkes,U.S.Exploring Exp., Philadelphia, 1846,pp.172, 289. (N.B.—The ordinary editions do not contain this important volume.)

325.Bowen, ‘Gr.andDic.of Yoruba.’ Burton in ‘Mem. Anthrop.Soc.,’vol.i.p.314.

326.See Pott,‘Zählmethode,’pp.78, 99, 124, 161; Grimm,‘Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer,’ch.v.

327.Francisque-Michel, ‘Argot,’p.483.

328.Of evidence of this class, the following deserves attention:—Dobrizhoffer, ‘Abipones,’vol.ii.p.169, givesgeyenkñatè, ‘ostrich-toes,’ as the numeral for 4, their ostrich having three toes before and one behind, andneènhalek, ‘a five-coloured spotted hide,’ as the numeral 5. D’Orbigny,‘L’Homme Américain,’vol.ii.p.163, remarks:—‘Les Chiquitos ne savent compter que jusqu’à un (tama), n’ayant plus ensuite que des termes de comparaison.’Kölle, ‘Gr.of Vei Lang.,’ notices thatférameans both ‘with’ and 2, and thinks the former meaning original (compare the Tah.piti, ‘together,’ thence 2). Quichuachuncu, ‘heap,’chunca, 10, may be connected. Aztec,ce, 1,cen-tli, ‘grain,’ may be connected. On possible derivations of 2 from hand, &c., especially Hottentot,t’koam, ‘hand, 2,’ see Pott,‘Zählmethode,’p.29.

329.See Farrar, ‘Chapters on Language,’p.223. Benloew,‘Recherches sur l’Origine des Noms de Nombre;’Pictet, ‘Origines Indo-Europ.’ partii.ch.ii.; Pott,‘Zählmethode,’p.128, &c.;A. v.Humboldt’s plausible comparison between Skr.pancha, 5, and Pers.penjeh, ‘the palm of the hand with the fingers spread out; the outspread foot of a bird,’ as though 5 were calledpanchafrom being like a hand, is erroneous. The Persianpenjehis itself derived from the numeral 5, as in Skr. the hand is calledpanchaçâkha, ‘the five-branched.’ The same formation is found in English; slang describes a man’s hand as his ‘fives,’ or ‘bunch of fives,’ thence the name of the game of fives, played by striking the ball with the open hand, a term which has made its way out of slang into accepted language. Burton describes the polite Arab at a meal, calling his companion’s attention to a grain of rice fallen into his beard. ‘The gazelle is in the garden,’ he says, with a smile. ‘We will hunt her with thefive,’ is the reply.

330.Ovid, Fast.iii.121.

331.The actual word-numerals of the two quinary series are given as examples. Triton’s Bay, 1,samosi; 2,roëeti; 3,touwroe; 4,faat; 5,rimi; 6,rim-samos; 7,rim-roëeti; 8,rim-touwroe; 9,rim-faat; 10,woetsja. Lifu, 1,pacha; 2,lo; 3,kun; 4,thack; 5,thabumb; 6,lo-acha; 7,lo-a-lo; 8,lo-kunn; 9,lo-thack; 10,te-bennete.

332.A. F.Pott,‘Die Quinäre und Vigesimale Zählmethode bei Völkern aller Welttheile,’Halle, 1847; supplemented in ‘Festgabe zur xxv. Versammlung Deutscher Philologen, &c., in Halle’ (1867).

333.‘Account of Laura Bridgman,’ London, 1845,p.159.

334.Compare the Rajmahali tribes adopting Hindi numerals, yet reckoning by twenties. Shaw,l.c.The use of a ‘score’ as an indefinite number in England, and similarly of 20 in France, of 40 in the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Arabic of the Thousand and One Nights, may be among other traces of vigesimal reckoning.

335.D.Wilson, ‘Prehistoric Man,’p.616.

336.Grant in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.iii.p.90.

337.Dobrizhoffer,‘Gesch. der Abiponer,’p.205;Eng.Trans.vol.ii.p.171.

338.Markham in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.iii.p.166.

339.Latham, ‘Comp. Phil.’p.186; Shaw in ‘As. Res.’vol.iv.p.96; ‘Journ.As.Soc.Bengal,’ 1866, partii.pp.27, 204, 251.

340.St.Cricq in ‘Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog.’ 1853,p.286; Pott,‘Zählmethode,’p.7.

341.Gabelentz,p.89; Hale,l.c.

342.J. C.Hotten, ‘Slang Dictionary,’p.218.

343.‘Early History of Mankind,’p.106.

344.Ellis, ‘Polyn. Res.’vol.i.p.91; Klemm,C. G.vol.iii.p.383.

345.Grote, ‘History of Greece,’vol.i.chaps.ix.xi.; Pausaniasviii.2; Plutarch. Theseus 1.

346.See Banier,‘La Mythologie et les Fables expliquées par l’Histoire,’Paris, 1738; Lempriere, ‘Classical Dictionary,’ &c.

347.Hanusch, ‘Slav. Myth.’p.323; Grimm,D. M.p.363; Latham, ‘Descr. Eth.’vol.ii.p.448;I. J.Schmidt,‘Forschungen,’p.13;J. G.Müller, ‘Amer. Urrelig.’p.268. See also Plutarch. Parallelaxxxvi.; Campbell, ‘Highland Tales,’vol.i.p.278; Max Müller, ‘Chips,’vol.ii.p.169; Tylor, ‘Wild Men and Beast-children,’ in Anthropological Review, May 1863.

348.Macrae in ‘As. Res.’vol.vii.p.189.

349.Bastian, ‘Oestl. Asien,’vol.i.p.51.

350.Grote,vol.iii.p.104;vol.v.p.22; Herodot.i.189;vii.34; Porphyr. de Abstinentia,ii.30; Pausan.i.28; Pollux, ‘Onomasticon.’

351.Reid, ‘Essays,’vol.iii.p.113.

352.Wuttke,‘Volksaberglaube,’p.210.

353.Seechap.xi.

354.D’Orbigny,‘L’Homme Américain,’vol.ii.p.102. See also De la Borde, ‘Caraibes,’p.525.

355.Le Jeune in‘Relations des Jésuites dans la Nouvelle France,’1634,p.26. See Charlevoix,‘Nouvelle France,’vol.ii.p.170.

356.Schoolcraft, ‘Algic Researches,’vol.ii.p.54; compare ‘Tanner’s Narrative,’p.317; see also ‘Prose Edda,’i.11; ‘EarlyHist.of Mankind,’p.327.

357.Prescott, ‘Peru,’vol.i.p.86; Garcilaso de la Vega, ‘Comm. Real.’i.c.15;iii.c.21.

358.Torquemada, ‘Monarquia Indiana,’vi.42; Clavigéro,vol.ii.p.9; Sahagun in Kingsborough, ‘Antiquities of Mexico.’

359.Bastian, ‘Mensch,’vol.ii.p.59.

360.Le Jeune, in‘Relations des Jésuites dans la Nouvelle France,’1639,p.88.

361.Froebel, ‘Central America,’p.490.

362.Tac. Ann.xiii.55.

363.Stanbridge, in ‘Tr. Eth.Soc.’vol.i.p.301.

364.Cranz, ‘Grönland,’p.295; Hayes, ‘Arctic Boat Journey,’p.254.

365.Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ partiii.p.276; see also De la Borde, ‘Caraibes,’p.525.

366.H.Yule in ‘Journ.As.Soc.Bengal,’vol.xiii.(1844),p.628.

367.Origen, de Principiis,i.7, 3; Pamphil. Apolog. pro Origine,ix.84.

368.De Maistre,‘Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg,’vol.ii.p.210, see 184.

369.Kaempfer, ‘Japan,’ in Pinkerton,vol.vii.p.684.

370.Doolittle, ‘Chinese,’vol.ii.p.265; see Ward, ‘Hindoos,’vol.i.p.140 (Indra’s elephants drinking).

371.Chron. Joh. Bromton, in ‘Hist.Angl. Scriptores,’x.Ric.I.p.1216.

372.Lane, ‘Thousand and oneN.’vol.i.p.30, 7.

373.Krapf, ‘Travels,’p.198.

374.Lane,ibid.pp.30, 42; Burton, ‘El Medinah and Meccah,’vol.ii.p.69; ‘Lake Regions,’vol.i.p.297;J. D.Hooker, ‘Himalayan Journals,’vol.i.p.79; Tylor, ‘Mexico,’p.30; Tyerman and Bennet,vol.ii.p.362. (Hindu piçâcha = demon, whirlwind.)

375.Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’p.121.

376.Mason, ‘Karens,’ in ‘Journ.As.Soc.Bengal,’ 1865, partii.p.217.

377.Callaway, ‘Zulu Tales,’vol.i.p.294.

378.Burton, ‘Dahome,’vol.ii.p.148; see 242.

379.Schoolcraft, ‘Algic Res.’vol.ii.p.148.

380.Du Chaillu, ‘Ashango-land,’p.106.

381.Jas.Atkinson, ‘Customs of the Women of Persia,’p.49.

382.2Sam.xxiv.16; 2 Kingsxix.35.

383.G. S.Assemanni, ‘Bibliotheca Orientalis,’ii.86.

384.Hanusch, ‘Slav. Mythus,’p.322. Compare Torquemada, ‘Monarquia Indiana,’i.c.14 (Mexico); Bastian, ‘Psychologie,’p.197.

385.Macpherson, ‘India,’p.357.

386.Markham, ‘QuichuaGr.andDic.’p.9.

387.Welcker, ‘Griech. Götterl.’vol.i.p.690.

388.Ellis, ‘Polyn. Res.’vol.i.p.231; Polack, ‘NewZ.’vol.i.p.273.

389.Grimm, ‘D. M.’pp.694-6.

390.Ward, ‘Hindoos,’vol.i.p.140.

391.Castren, ‘Finnische Mythologie,’pp.48, 49.

392.Delbrück in Lazarus and Steinthal’s Zeitschrift,vol.iii.p.269.

393.Schoolcraft, partiii.p.520.

394.Sicard,‘Théorie des Signes, &c.’Paris 1808,vol.ii.p.634; ‘Personal Recollections’ by Charlotte Elizabeth, London, 1841,p.182; Dr. Orpen, ‘The Contrast,’p.25. Compare Meiners,vol.i.p.42.

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