THOMAS] POKONCHI NUMERALS 901 The following list of Pokonchi numerals is from Stoll's Maya-

Sprachen der

Pokom-Gruppe

(p. 51):

Pokonchi 10 lahe-b.

11 hun-lah=1^10.

12 cab-lah=2^10.

13 ox-lah=3+10.

14 cah-lah=4+10.

15 ho-lah-uh=54-10.

16 vuak-lah=6^10.

17 vuk-lah

= 7—

10.

18 vuaxak-lah=8^10.

19 beleh-lah=9+10.

20 hun-inak=lX20, or1man.

21 lien-ah ru-ca-vuinak=l onthesecondscore, oronthesecond20.

22 quib ru-ca-vuii)ak=2onthesecondscore, oronthesecond20.

30 lahebru-ca-vuinak=10onthesecondscore, oronthesecond20.

40 ca-vuinak=2x20.

50 lahebr-oxc'a!

=

10on the thirdscore.

60 ox-c'al=3x20.

"0 hihebru-cah-vuinak=10onthe fourthscore.

80 cah-vuinak=4x20.

100 ho-c'al=5x20.

200 ho-tuc=5x40.

Stollinterprets the heiudi ru-ea-vtdiiid' of the above^list bj-

"1

sein

2X2U;"

^{that i.s,} 1 of. orbelonging- to.

2x20

or the.second 20. This is

exactlythe

same

as saying one on thesecond score.

The

rufor which

"_{sein "} standsis the third person, singular, possessive pronoun, as in 7'upaf, "his hou.se."

In

Quekchi

(or K'ak'chi),

from

which the next example of

numbers

above 10 is taken,

we

follow the " Vocabulario Castellano-K'ak'chi

"

of Enriciue Bourgeois, aspublished by A. L. Pinart (pp. 7-8), always, however, changing the Spanish;' to//.

27 gukub-x-kakal

=

^{7onthesecond.score.}

28 gnahxakil)-x-kakal=8 onthesecondscore.

29 belel)-x-kakal=9onthesecondscore.

30 lahch-x-kakal

=

10onthesecond score.

31 hun-lahu-x-kakal= 11 (or 1

+

^{10) onthesecondscore.}

32 kab-lalui-x-kakal

=

12 (or2+10) onthesecondscore.

33 ox-Iahu-x-kakal

=

13onthesecondscore.

Soto 39.

40 kakal=2X20.

4.1 hun-r-oxkal=l onthe third score.

42 kaib-r-oxkal=2onthe thirdscore.

Soto49.

50 laheb-r-oxkal

=

10onthe third score.

51 hun-lahu-r-oxkal =11 (or1

+

^{10) onthe thirdscore.}

52 kab-lahii-r-oxkal= 12 (or2+10) on the thirdscore.

Soto59.

60 oxal=3X20.

61 hun-x-kakal?=lonthe fourthscore.

62 kaib-x-kakal?=2onthe fourthscore.

Soto69.

70 laheb-x-kakal?=10onthe fourth ^.score.

71 luin-lahu-x-kakal?=ll(or1+10)ontliefourth score.

72 kab-lahu-x-kakal?=12(or2+10) on ^tliefourthscore.

Soto79.

The hdvJ

^{in the la.-^t}five miniei-nls lUKiuestionahly denotes

4x20,

or

80, the proper term for which ^{is kiinkul.}

As

knl-alis tiie term for40, orliterallj'

2X20,

^{there mu.st be} either a distinction in the pronuncia- tion not indi<'ated in the vociibiilary or an error in the y)rintin,fr-

The

data at hand do not furnisli tiie

means

of determininLT the sig-nitication of the inserted ;v as in hunxkakal^{; it}seems evident that it pla3-s the

same

role as^/• liefore «, as in ro.rhd.

80 kaakal=4X20.

81 hun-r-okal=l on thefifthscore.

82 kaib-r-okal=2onthefiftliscore.

Soto89.

90 laheb-r-okal

=

^10onthefifthscore.

91 hun-lahu-r-okal

=

^{ll (or}1+10)onthefifthscore.

Soto99.

100 hokal=5X20.

120 Kuackal=6X20.

200 hotiic=oX40.

400 hun-okob=lX400.

800 kail>okob=2X400.

THOMAS] aiAM

NUMKRALS 903

The

^li.st of niimerals alxive 10 in the

Mam

^dialect given below is

from

the Arte y Vocabulario en ^Leiit,nia ^lame, bj'

Marcos

Salmeron, published

by

Charencey (page 156).

Mam

10 lahuh.

11 hum-lahuh

=

l+10.

12 kab-lahiih=2-rl0.

13 ox-lahuh=3-10.

14 kiah-lahuli=4^10.

15 oo-lahuh=o—10.

16 vuak-lahuh=6--10.

17 vuk-lahuh=7^10.

18 vuahxak-lahuh=8+10.

19 belhuh-lahuh=9-t-10.

20 vuinkimorhuing(Stoll)

=1

man.

30 vuinak-lahuh=l man, or20+10.

40 ka-vuinak=2x20.

41 hum-t-oxkal-im

=

l totliethird.score.

42 kabe-t-oxkal-im=2to the thirdscore.

43 oxe-t-oxkal-im=3tothe thirdscore.

44 kiah-t-oxkal-im=4tothethird score.

45 hoe-t-oxkal-im=5tothe thirdscore.

46 vuakak-t-oxkal-im=6tothe thirdscore.

47 vuk-t-oxkal-im

=

7tothe thirdscore.

48 vuahxak-t-oxkal-im=8tothe thirdscore.

49 velhuh-t-oxkal-im=9^tothe thirdscore.

50 lahiih-t-oxkal-im

=

10tothe thirdscore.

60 ox-kal=3x20.

70 lahuh-tu-hu-much-im

=

10onthe fourthscore.

80 hum-miicx=l much,or1X80.

90 lahuh-t-okal-im=10onthefifthscore.' 100 okal=5x20.

200 ochuk=5x40.

300 oloh-kal= 15X20.

400 o-mucx=5x80.

500 omucx-okal=400-100, lit. (5x80)+(5X20).

600 omucx-ochuh =400+200, ^lit. (5X80)

+

^(5x40).

700 omucx-oloh-kal=400+300, lit. (5x80)

+

^(15X20).

900 lahuh-tuki-okal.

StolP gives a

method

of counting above40 in thisidiomso different

from

that presented above that his brief notice ispresented here:

40 caunak=2x20?,or2men.

50 caunak-t-iqui-lahoh=40+10.

60 ox-c'al=3x20.

"0 ox-c'al-t-iqui-lahoh=60-!-10.

*0 hu-much

=

lx80.

hH-much-t-iqui-lahoh=80^10.

80 90

1Salmesongivest-oxkai,whichisanevidenterror.

^Sprache derIxil-Indianer,_{p. 146.}

]:! i>x-lavual=3-^10.

14 (•a-lavnal=4+10.

15 o-lavnal=5+10.

16 vaah-lavual=6+10.

17 vuli-lavual=7+10.

IS vuaxah-lavual=8410.

19 bele-lavual=9+10.

20 vuink-il,or vuinquil.

21 vuinah-un-ul=20-(-l.

22 viiinah-('ab-il=:20+2.

23 vuinali-ox-ol=20+8.

24 vuinah-cal=20+4 (cal forcah-il).

25 vuinah-dl=20+5(ol foro-ol).

26 vuinah-vuah-il=20+6.

27 vuinah-vuh-ul=204-7.

28 vuinah-vuaxah-il=20+8.

29 vuinali-helu-vual

=

20+9.

80 vuinali-lavual

=

20+10.

40 ca-vuink-il

=

2x20.

60 ox-c'al-al=.3x20.

70 lavual-i-inuch=10onthe80.

80 nng-inuch-ul=ome much, orone80.

90 lavual-t-oc.'al=10ontliefifth .-core.

100 o-c'al-al=5x20.

101 oc'alal-t-uc-ungvual=100+l.

110 lavual-i-vuahc'al

=

^10onthe sixth^score.

120 vnah-c'al-al=6x20.-

130 lavnal-i-vuhc'al

=

10ontheseventhscore.

140 vah-c'al-al

=

7X20.

150 lavnal-i-vuaxahc'al

=

10onthe eighth^score.

160 vuaxah-c'al-al=8x20.

170 laviial-i-belec'al

=

10 ontlie ninttiscore.

180 bele-c'al-al=9x20.

190 lavual-i-lac'al

=

10onthe tenthscore.

200 la-c'al-al

=

_10x20 (orcavual-cicnto=2X100—Spanish).

220 hunla-c'al-al

=

llx20.

230 lavual-i-cabla-c'al

=

10ontlictweh'thscore.

240 cal)la-c'al-al

=

¹2X^20.

260 oxhi-n-c'al-al

=

_13X20(sameasoxlahunc'alal).

280 cala-n-c'al-al

=

14x20.

300 ola-n-c'al-al=15x20.

'Stoll,up.cit.,pp.50-52.

»StoIlgivesby.»lipofthepen"1x20."