Note 4 — VII. AFFINITIES.
Reading edition
The Mikir word for twenty, ingkoi, is made up of the prefix ing-, and koi, formerly (before the loss of the final l) kol. Kachcha Naga has the same word, engkai, Kabui choi, koi, or kol. The word also appears in Garo (kol), Tipura (khol), and Deori-Chutiya (kwa), of the Boṛo group; Angāmi me-kwū, me-khi, mekko, Lhota me-kwī, mekwü, in the West and Central Naga groups; Marām and Sopvoma (makē, makei), Tangkhul (magā), Phadeng (ma-kui), in the Naga-Kuki group, and Singpho khun. In the Kuki-Chin languages it is very common (Meithei kul, Siyin kul, Lai pö-kul, Shonshē ma-kul, Banjogi kūl, Shö [Chin] kūl, goi). There does not appear to be any trace of this word for a score in the Tibetan and Himalayan languages, where twenty is invariably rendered by “two-tens.”4 The Northern Indian word kōṛī, which has the same meaning, has been compared with it; it is difficult, however, to imagine borrowing on one part or the other.