Words for 'thousand'

[Wallace Chafe]

This was very widespread. Seneca, for example, is sgaöshæ:d, quite 
literally "one box".

Wally

--On Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:25 PM +0000 Anthony Grant 
<Granta at edgehill.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks, Dave - I'd not known that!  Something to add to the paper.
>
>>>> David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net> 12/06/07 8:04 pm >>>
> Miami does this too: note mihtekolaakani "wooden box, trunk, thousand
> (dollars)".