_Serian_
A. ghá`kum, _gha`k-_
B. kahom, _kah-_ or _kaχ-_
C. kaχ´kum, _kaχk._, kookχ´, _kookχ´_
D. kokjl, _kokχ-_, kujom, _kuχ-_
_Yuman_
II. goguo
III. goguó
IV. gowac (Laymon); kawam; kamoe,=“the other”
22. guwáke
7. habeeka
4. habíck
15. habíck
20. jubíc (j as in Spanish)
6. havik
12_a._ havick
9. havíka
21. hawáka
12b. hawick
13. hawik
18. hěwáki
5. χawík
23. ẖooak
10. hovak
3. howōck
17. howok
16. ẖowuk
8. howwaich
19. huáka
1. huwaka
24. h’wach
11_a._ hwaga
25. kawŭ´k
26. kawŭ´k
14. óak
2. uake
11_b._ wága
I. kooak
The Serian examples of the digit “two” are of such phonetic character
as to warrant the inference that they are derivatives from a single
phrasm of demonstrative origin, the differences in their orthography
being due chiefly to the language and training of the collectors
and to the difference in the alphabets employed. There is evidently
phonetic and sematic relationship between the stem of this digit and
the -_kak_ in such demonstrative elements as _ish-kak,_ “here (where
I am), now, then”; _ikχ´-kaka,_ “near”; _imk-ahaka_ for _imk-kaka,_
“there where he, she, is, they are”; _akki-kak,_ “whither? to-where?
whence?“; _toχ´-kaka,_ “far, distant, far off”; and also with _iki_
in _akki-iki_, “where?”. In these examples the affix _akki-_ has an
interrogative force. The meaning of _-kak_ is that of contiguity or
proximity to the Here, the Self.
Now, the fuller Yuman list presents several forms seemingly closely
accordant, phonetically at least, with the Serian terms, but these
being merely divergent representatives of the distinctively Yuman term
which does not accord with the Serian form, are of no avail to prove
relationship. The available material pertaining to this group supplies
but scant data for ascertaining the derivation of the Yuman digit. But,
in addition to the connection of the Laymon _gowac_, with _kawam_, “the
other”, it may be that it is permissible to compare here _owá_ (2),
“that” in Tonto, the Mohave _huvá-nya_ (6), “he, that”, the Hummockhave
_howa-nméeme_ (8), “he”, and _howai_ (8), “that”, the Mohave _huva-tce_
(9), “he”, the Kutchan _habu-itzk_ (12), “he”, the Kiliwi hapa (23),
“he”, and other terms, which suggest its origin. From the foregoing
explanations, there appears to be no lexic relationship between the
Serian and the Yuman digits denoting “two”.