[The Number Concept by Levi Leonard Conant]@TWC D-Link book
The Number Concept

CHAPTER III
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In the Kootenay dialect,[93] of British Columbia, _qaetsa_, 4, and _wo-qaetsa,_ 8, are obviously related, the latter word probably meaning a second 4.

Most of the native languages of British Columbia form their words for 7 and 8 from those which signify 2 and 3; as, for example, the Heiltsuk,[94] which shows in the following words a most obvious correspondence: 2.

matl.

7.

matlaaus.
3.


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