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Show 186 forma substantives, and occurs also in the Comanche word mask- pa, hand. Congro • enoies with Comanche, which is related to some Sonora languages, are very numerous, indeed: tahua, sun; C: tabih, tabikan; Shosh: tava. muiyane, moon; Kizh: mOar; C: mea, crescent, umuegi, thunder; C: tomoyake. koltsa, white; C: tochtsa. mu- u, pron. 1; C: un. fai, noj C: kai. tfiliS- u, hot; C: urate, vuete, woman; C: viepe. pushi, eye: C: pui; Shosh: pui. daina, teetn; C: tama. makbde, hand; C: mash- pa. shuki, nails; Com: ( techtse=) tsuke. Terms equivalent and related to Kiowa words are also very numerous and important and are not at the same time related to Comanche: taka, young, boy; K: tuquois. uugva, blood; K: um. And the terms for friend, moruing, arm, belly, day, wind, duok, three, thou. With the Tuma dialects, Moqui agrees in the following terms: t gaskavi, yellow; Cuchan: aquesque; Gob: kuase. vue pa, large, great; Qoh : ve'te, shuki, nails; Goh: sha- la- hu6, ( la, hand.) shehevi, green; Goh: ilvi. We also discover congruences with the following works from the Apache dialect*, which form the southern branch of the Athapascan or Tinne family of languages: tsi- i, bird; Nav: tsiti; Teh: tehi- e; Ap: tchisuki, crow, shohe, stav; Nav: so: Ap: ssQs : Kizh: sum. bihe, female breasts; Nav: be; Ap: ibit; Com: pf tsi. xnakhde, hand; Ap: la, lda? n-' la, lata, tchaio, small; Nav: alt chisi. Affinities with Jemes are found in: peshe, valley ; J: peta. tutokvi, mountain; J : tota. kvohe, wood; J: kvie; Isl: ka- i. Affinities with Tehua we discover in the following words: aba, buffalo lodge; Teh : btf'-. tevae, pine tree; Teh I: ta- u, ta- au. ga'- e, Indian corn: Teh I: ko- ote. lengi, tongue; Teh : heng, ( perhaps Spanish.) inakhde, hand ; ma- ata', arm ; Teh: ma, mang. tahua, sun ; Teh: tang, tan; Tesuque: ta. kucue, coyote; Teh : koyo; Aztec: coyotl. kvahu, wing; Teh : kflku. kokala, strong; Teh: akiele. To these we may add some personal pronouns, the numeral three, and a few words mentioned above. The large number of Tehua words admitted into Moqui explains itself readily by the presence of a Tehua village on one of the eastern Moqui mesas. To these reference was made by Francesco Garces in 1775, when he averred the existence of " two nations and two different tongues in the Moqui pueblo/' ( Buschmann, Pima Language, p. 323.) I conclude by mentioning some similarities between Moqui and the Zuiii language: kid, water; Z: kiave. t6tch6, ice; Z: ' tchathle. tuvua, earth, land; Z: sdvi. shikvi, meat; Z: shfle. tchaio, small; Z: ts& ina. ovin, yes; Z: aiai. p£ hio, three; Z: hihi. uiua, to kill; Z: a^ ina. Moqui is found to agree with Otomi ( Mexico) in terms, as gug&, foot; Ot: gua nagviya, warrior; Ot: magagui, war; with Palin ( Central Amenca) in uSnangva, heart; P: vuanuma; koltsa, white; P: sak. Many of the word- resemblances quoted in the preceding pages are perhaps uncertain, |