Comparison is expressed by adding _bén_ or _kén_ or _adin_ (a verb meaning to be above) for the comparative, and _apüdi_ for the diminutive. _Ubura_, from the verb _uburau_ to be before in time, and _adiki_, from _adikin_ to be after in time, are also used for the same purpose. The superlative has to be expressed by a circumlocution; as _tumaqua aditu ipirrun turreha_, what is great beyond all else; _bokkia üssá dáuria_, thou art better than I, where the last word is a compound of _dai uwúria_ of, from, than. The comparative degree of the adjectives corresponds to the intensive and frequentative forms of the verbs; thus _ipirrun_ to be strong, _ipirru_ strong, _ipirrubîn_ and _ipirrubessabun_ to be stronger, _ipirrubetu_ and _ipirrubessabutu_ stronger, that which is stronger. The numerals are wonderfully simple, and well illustrate how the primitive man began his arithmetic. They are:-- 1 abba. 2 biama, plural biamannu. 3 kabbuhin, plural kubbuhinínnu. 4 bibiti, plural bibitinu. 5 abbatekkábe, plural abbatekabbunu. 6 abbatiman, plural abbatimannínu. 7 biamattiman, plural biamattimannínu. 8 kabbuhintiman, plural kabbuhintimannínu. 9 bibitiman, plural bibititumannínu. 10 biamantekábbe, plural biamantekábunu. Now if we analyze these words, we discover that _abbatekkábe_ five, is simply _abba_ one, and _akkabu_, hand; that the word for six is literally “one [finger] of the other [hand],” for seven “two [fingers] of the other [hand],” and so on to ten, which is compounded of _biama_ two, and _akkabu_ hands. Would they count eleven, they say _abba kutihibena_ one [toe] from the feet, and for twenty the expression is _abba lukku_ one man, both hands and feet. Thus, in truth, they have only four numerals, and it is even a question whether these are primitive, for _kabbuhin_ seems a strengthened form of _abba_, and _bibuti_ to bear the same relation to _biama_. Therefore we may look back to a time when this nation knew not how to express any numbers beyond one and two. Although these numbers do not take peculiar terminations when applied to different objects, as in the languages of Central America and Mexico, they have a great variety of forms to express the relationship in which they are used. The ordinals are: atenennuati, first. ibiamattéti, second. wakábbuhinteti, our third, etc. To the question, How many at a time? the answer is: likinnekewai, one alone. biamanuman, two at a time, etc. If simply, How many? it is: abbahu, one. biamahu, two. If, For which time? it is: tibíakuja, for the first time. tibíamattétu, for the second time. and so on. VERBS.