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.

[312] Op. cit., II. i. p. 282.

[313] Op. cit., II. i. p. 287.  The meanings given for the words for 7, 8, 9 are conjectures of my own.

[314] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. i. p. 297.

[315] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 90.

[316] Mueller, op. cit., II. i. p. 379.

[317] Gallatin, “Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America,” Tr.  Am.  Ethn.  Soc., Vol.  I. p. 114.

[318] Adam, Lucien, Congres Internationale des Americanistes, 1877, Vol.  II. p. 244.

[319] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. i. p. 395.  I can only guess at the meanings of 6 to 9.  They are obviously circumlocutions for 5-1, 5-2, etc.

[320] Op. cit., p. 438.  Mueller has transposed these two scales.  See Brinton’s Am.  Race, p. 358.

[321] Marcoy, P., Tour du Monde, 1866, 2eme sem. p. 148.

[322] Op. cit., p. 132.  The meanings are my own conjectures.

[323] An elaborate argument in support of this theory is to be found in Hervas’ celebrated work, Arithmetica di quasi tutte le nazioni conosciute.

[324] See especially the lists of Hale, Gallatin, Trumbull, and Boas, to which references have been given above.

[325] Thiel, B.A., “Vocab. der Indianier in Costa Rica,” Archiv fuer Anth., xvi. p. 620.

[326] These three examples are from A.R.  Wallace’s Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, vocab.  Similar illustrations may be found in Martius’ Glos.  Brasil.

[327] Martius, Glos.  Brasil., p. 176.

[328] Adam, L., Congres International des Americanistes, 1877, Vol.  II. p. 244.  Given also supra, p. 53.

[329] O’Donovan, Irish Grammar, p. 123.

[330] Armstrong, R.A., Gaelic Dict., p. xxi.

[331] Spurrell, Welsh Dictionary.

[332] Kelly, Triglot Dict., pub. by the Manx Society.

[333] Guillome, J., Grammaire Francaise-Bretonne, p. 27.

[334] Groeber, G., Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie, Bd.  I. p. 309.

[335] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 88.

[336] Van Eys, Basque Grammar, p. 27.

[337] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 101.

[338] Op. cit., p. 78.

[339] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, I. ii. p. 124.

[340] Op. cit., p. 155.

[341] Op. cit., p. 140.

[342] Op. cit., loc. cit.

[343] Schweinfurth, Reise nach Centralafrika, p. 25.

[344] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, IV. i. p. 83.

[345] Op. cit., IV. i. p. 81.

[346] Op. cit., I. ii. p. 166.

[347] Long, C.C., Central Africa, p. 330.

[348] Peacock, Encyc.  Met., Vol.  I. p. 388.

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