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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
I propose to examine the various dialects of which specimens are given in vol. iii of the Report of the Linguistic Survey of India, to group them together according to their method of forming numerals, and then to examine the forms of the numerals used as bases for the higher numerals.
page 316 note 1 I see reasons for thinking that kip retains its original meaning of “ten”. See below, p. 332.
page 316 note 2 Also in Chandangsi and Byangsi.
page 316 note 3 Vide The Mikirs, p. 78.Google Scholar
page 316 note 4 See below, p. 328.
page 316 note 5 Part prefixes.
page 317 note 1 See Grammar by Rev. F. W. Savidge.
page 317 note 2 See below, p. 328.
page 317 note 3 Ethnographically Phadang and Khangoi belong to the Tangkhul group of villages.
page 320 note 1 See p. 334.
page 320 note 2 They belong with greater probability to the Khat group.
page 321 note 1 With Bhrāmu dē and Thāksya dī. Thāmī, diware.
page 321 note 2 I note that these forms are “apparently connected with the forms in the Mon Khmer group of languages” (LSR., vol. iii, pt. iii, p. 335).
page 322 note 1 The ordinary form is ni.
page 322 note 2 Forbes, , Comparative Grammar, p. 119.Google Scholar
page 324 note 1 Or jokhai.
page 324 note 2 Alternative form bku.
page 325 note 1 Forbes, , Comparative Grammar, p. 120.Google Scholar
page 325 note 2 Does this mean “hand-two”? Khut = hand in several dialects.
page 326 note 1 I am not so sure of this. Tak and tik probably are only prefixes.
page 327 note 1 Bong is a ten base. These forms probably mean “one from ten”.
page 328 note 1 UBG., p. 682.
page 328 note 2 Uses chip for ten and som for higher numerals.
page 328 note 3 In higher numbers only.
page 329 note 1 But see above as to hem and its possible relationship with the som group.
page 330 note 1 The Lusheis, p. 226.Google Scholar
page 332 note 1 tu = chu = ten.
page 333 note 1 The change of the base (11–19) is notable. Phew is the regular base. Khad is used for 11–19.
page 334 note 1 UBG., p. 626.
page 335 note 1 See vol. iii, pt. ii, p. 197, quoting A. W. Davis.