Numerical sequences play a major part in my reconstructions. Also, in searching for cognates traditional researchers tend to approach all languages in the same manner. The American SE was a polyglot, with different dialects, plus sign language in constant flux. Word order and agglutination have been almost entirely overlooked. For ex., the Creek word for west was hasutomi. Their word for dusk was tamkhasi. I propose that the stems of these words are simply reversed. Otami meaning to set, shield, sink. Khasi, hassee, meaning the sun.

Otami-Khasi= setting-sun = dusk
khasi-otami= sun-setting = west

The Miccosukees count 1-2-3 as Lamin, tokolin, tutchenin. Oddly, if we rotate the stems of these nbrs, we have

lamin------ in-lam------ nilam--------NILAM
tokolin----- in-tokol----- nitokol------NITAK
tutchenin---nin-tutche---nintutche----MINTAKAH

Nilam, nitak, and mintakah happen to be the Arabic names of the 3 stars of Orions Belt. Stars related to an astronomical "countdown". There are several other significant Semitic correlations to this sequence. Including ones related to Hebrew and Akkadian. There is a continuing interrelation in Muskogee, which is not overshadowed by the Old World correlations. For example, the Creek word for north was falamin, while the Seminole word for north was hunli, hunilam meaning "northern". Matching a pattern I had noticed previously of words for direction north corresponding to the numeral one. Matoka, the Creek for "south", is consistent with nitokol, though the l is abraded.

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