The American Race: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South AmericaBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
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The American Race: A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Indians; Indians -- Languages
_Omagua._ _Yarura._ _Betoya._ _Correguaje._
Man, ava, mena, pume, umasoi, emiud, pai.
Woman, huaina, cunia, ibi, ain, ro.
Sun, huarassi, do, teo-umasoi, ense.
Moon, yase, goppe, teo-ro, paimia.
Fire, tata, condé, futui.
Water, uni, uui, ocudú, ocŏ.
Head, yacue, pacchá, rosaca, sijope.
Eye, zaicana, { batchioo, C., } ufoniba, ñancoca.
{ jonde, }
Ear, nami, cajoroso.
Mouth, yuru, yaoo, C.
Nose, ti, nappe, jusaca, jinquepui.
Tongue, cumuera, { hihn, C., } ineca, chimenu.
{ toppono, }
Tooth, say, hundee, C., cojini.
Hand, pua, icchi, rum-cosi, jete.
Foot, pueta, tahoo, C., rem-ocá, coapi.
House, uca, guce.
1, uyepe, canāme, edojojoi.
2, mucuica, { adotchami, } edoi.
{ ñoeni, }
3, iruaca, tarani, ibutu.
4, adoitchemī.
5, canikiro.
The Omagua is a well-marked Tupi dialect. Adam has shown the grammatical
concordances clearly (_Compte-Rendu du Cong. des Amer._, 1888, p. 496).
The Yarura and Betoya reveal faint resemblances in the words for “sun”
and “tongue”; but not enough to justify assuming a relationship. Their
grammars are quite unlike, that of the Yarura preceding by suffixes, that
of the Betoya by prefixes (see Müller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, Bd. II., Ab.
I., s. 361).
The Correguaje shows less analogy to the Betoya in the above vocabulary
than in a more extended comparison. The word for water, _ocŏ_, reappears
in a number of dialects not akin to this stock, and is perhaps allied to
the Chinchasuyu _yacu_ (see _anté_, p. 205).
DIALECTS OF THE UPPER AMAZONIAN BASIN.
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