On Numerals as Signs of Primeval Unity Among MankindTrübner & Company, 1873 - 94 pages |
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... Basque , Finnish , and Turkish fives - their resemblance to some 14 The s hand - five in Aryan , Caucasian , Basque , Semitic , and Libyan ( = North African ) languages 16 The Aryan ' ten ' - its parallels in Africa , America , Asia ...
... Basque , Finnish , and Turkish fives - their resemblance to some 14 The s hand - five in Aryan , Caucasian , Basque , Semitic , and Libyan ( = North African ) languages 16 The Aryan ' ten ' - its parallels in Africa , America , Asia ...
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... Basque and Caucasian animal - names found in Nepalese and Ab- original Indian - how Europe was overspread by three suc- cessive waves of population - Trans - Saharic African , Indo- Caucasian or South - western Turanian , and Indo ...
... Basque and Caucasian animal - names found in Nepalese and Ab- original Indian - how Europe was overspread by three suc- cessive waves of population - Trans - Saharic African , Indo- Caucasian or South - western Turanian , and Indo ...
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... Basque , and Chinese Aryan , Basque , African , Malay , Polynesian , and Semitic ' threes ' 66 Ancient numerals in Etruria - complete form of the Aryan ' three ' Tendency of the whole evidence supplied by numerals Additional ...
... Basque , and Chinese Aryan , Basque , African , Malay , Polynesian , and Semitic ' threes ' 66 Ancient numerals in Etruria - complete form of the Aryan ' three ' Tendency of the whole evidence supplied by numerals Additional ...
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... Basque , the most ancient surviving language of Spain . Here we meet with these three words : -atz , ' finger ' ; bat , ' one ' ; and zazpi , ' seven ' ; as well as with bi , ' two ' . Now it is a law of the Basque language , that b is ...
... Basque , the most ancient surviving language of Spain . Here we meet with these three words : -atz , ' finger ' ; bat , ' one ' ; and zazpi , ' seven ' ; as well as with bi , ' two ' . Now it is a law of the Basque language , that b is ...
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... Basque for ' seven ' . Since therefore bi is ' two ' in Basque , and since ' seven ' , as may have been perceived already , is commonly resolvable into ' five - two ' or ' two - five ' , we may legitimately infer that zaz- , in the Basque ...
... Basque for ' seven ' . Since therefore bi is ' two ' in Basque , and since ' seven ' , as may have been perceived already , is commonly resolvable into ' five - two ' or ' two - five ' , we may legitimately infer that zaz- , in the Basque ...
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