The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

   1. kiarp.
   2. bulaits.
   3. bulaits kiarp = 2-1.
   4. bulaits bulaits = 2-2.
   5. kiarp munnar = 1 hand.
   6. bulaits bulaits bulaits = 2-2-2.
  10. bulaits munnar = 2 hands.

The last two scales deserve special notice.  They are Australian scales, and the former is strongly binary, as are so many others of that continent.  But both show an incipient quinary tendency in their names for 5 and 10.

  CAMBODIA.[289]

   1. muy.
   2. pir.
   3. bey.
   4. buon.
   5. pram.
   6. pram muy = 5-1.
   7. pram pil = 5-2.
   8. pram bey = 5-3.
   9. pram buon = 5-4.
  10. dap.

  TSCHUKSCHI.[290]

   1. inen.
   2. nirach.
   3. n’roch.
   4. n’rach.
   5. miligen = hand.
   6. inen miligen = 1-5.
   7. nirach miligen = 2-5.
   8. anwrotkin.
   9. chona tsinki.
  10. migitken = both hands.

  KOTTISCH[291]

   1. hutsa.
   2. ina.
   3. tona.
   4. sega.
   5. chega.
   6. chelutsa = 5 + 1.
   7. chelina = 5 + 2.
   8. chaltona = 5 + 3.
   9. tsumnaga = 10 — 1.
  10. haga.

  ESKIMO OF N.-W.  ALASKA.[292]

   1. a towshek.
   2. hipah, or malho.
   3. pingishute.
   4. sesaimat.
   5. talema.
   6. okvinile, or ahchegaret = another 1?
   7. talema-malronik = 5-two of them.
   8. pingishu-okvingile = 2d 3?
   9. kolingotalia = 10 — 1?
  10. koleet.

  KAMTSCHATKA, SOUTH.[293]

   1. dischak.
   2. kascha.
   3. tschook.
   4. tschaaka.
   5. kumnaka.
   6. ky’lkoka.
   7. itatyk = 2 + 5.
   8. tschookotuk = 3 + 5.
   9. tschuaktuk = 4 + 5.
  10. kumechtuk = 5 + 5.

  ALEUTS[294]

   1. ataqan.
   2. aljak.
   3. qankun.
   4. sitsin.
   5. tsan = my hand.
   6. atun = 1 + 5.
   7. ulun = 2 + 5.
   8. qamtsin = 3 + 5.
   9. sitsin = 4 + 5.
  10. hatsiq.

  TCHIGLIT, MACKENZIE R.[295]

   1. ataotcirkr.
   2. aypak, or malloerok.
   3. illaak, or pinatcut.
   4. tcitamat.
   5. tallemat.
   6. arveneloerit.
   7. arveneloerit-aypak = 5 + 2.
   8. arveneloerit-illaak = 5 + 3.
   9. arveneloerit-tcitamat = 5 + 4.
  10. krolit.

  SAHAPTIN (NEZ PERCES).[296]

   1. naks.
   2. lapit.
   3. mitat.
   4. pi-lapt = 2 x 2.
   5. pachat.
   6. oi-laks = [5] + 1.
   7. oi-napt = [5] + 2.
   8. oi-matat = [5] + 3.
   9. koits.
  10. putimpt.

  GREENLAND.[297]

   1. atauseq.
   2. machdluq.
   3. pinasut.
   4. sisamat
   5. tadlimat.
   6. achfineq-atauseq = other hand 1.
   7. achfineq-machdluq = other hand

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