If our remote ancestors ever counted by eights, we are entirely ignorant of the fact, and must remain so until much more is known of their language than scholars now have at their command.

The word resemblances noted above are hardly more significant than those occurring in two Polynesian languages, the Fatuhivan and the Nakuhivan,[222] where "new" is associated with the number 7.

In the former case 7 is _fitu_, and "new" is _fou_; in the latter 7 is _hitu_, and "new" is _hou_.

But no one has, because of this likeness, ever suggested that these tribes ever counted by the senary method.

Another equally trivial resemblance occurs in the Tawgy and the Kamassin languages,[223] thus: TAWGY.