Basque

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: same description as one of the types which occur, as they allege, among the Basque populations of the Pyrenees (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "same description as one of the types which occur, as they allege, among the Basque populations of the Pyrenees."

• attestation: We turn accordingly to Basque, and what do we find (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "We turn accordingly to Basque, and what do we find?"

• attestation: The case is much the same with 'seven,' for that is in Basque zazpi, which is also probably an Aryan loan-word (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "The case is much the same with 'seven,' for that is in Basque zazpi, which is also probably an Aryan loan-word."

• attestation: Basque has native words, zorlzi and bederalzi, for eight and nine, but they are longer than the first five, and appear to be of a later formation affecting, in common with sei and zazpt, the terminati (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Basque has native words, zorlzi and bederalzi, for eight and nine, but they are longer than the first five, and appear to be of a later formation affecting, in common with sei and zazpt, the termination 1, I submit, therefore, that here we have evidence of the former existence of a people in the West of Europe who at one time only counted as far as five."