228 Mr. Saiikey on the Analysis and Structure 



each being the proper characteristic of the case and number. 

 To apply this, then, to the several declensions, we shall first 

 take the article as an exemplar of the second and first declen- 

 sions. Now, I would here observe, that the masculine and 

 feminine had better have been considered as distinct articles, 

 connected as they are with, and evidently derived from, 

 the Hebrew mascuhne and feminine third person pronouns 

 Nin and K^n, which are always treated of by Hebrew gramma- 

 rians as if totally distinct. 



To commence, then, with the masculine article, and com- 

 paring the different cases together, we readily perceive that o 

 is the radix, the ' or h in the nominative being equivalent to 

 the prefix t of the other cases, which, indeed, was formerly 

 found in the nominative itself, as r-o-s. Looking now to the 

 dative as the next simplest form, we find it written of old, rot, 

 from whence roj. Hence we infer that i, even though here sub- 

 scribed, is the proper characteristic of the dative case, and 

 carries into it a signification somewhat the same as our prepo- 

 sition to, so that rco will be, analytically, *' to him," or " to 

 it." Now, postfixing to the primitive dative roi the pronoun 

 o, v:hich, we have ro-t-o, the Ionic genitive, which, therefore, 

 will signify '* which to him " or " it," and this gives the force of 

 the genitive, the ellipsis being mentally supplied. In con- 

 firmation of the correctness of this view, we may remark, that 

 the datives and genitives of the Hebrew pronouns are formed 

 from the radix on these very principles : thus, for example, 

 from the radix i of the pronoun j^in, the dative is formed by 

 prefixing the preposition b, signifying to, and from this again 

 the genitive is formed by prefixing W, signifying which, so that 

 here the Greek and Hebrew analogy differ only in this, that 

 the Greek postfixes these characteristics of the case, while the 

 Hebrew prefixes them. So that, in a tabular view, we may 

 present them thus — 



Dat. jiS 1 to him. (ro-i 1 Dat. 



Gen. \iWj which to him. JTo-i-oJ Gen. 



From this tojo, still retained amongst the Ionics, came the 

 common rov, the v being probably here pronounced at first like 

 our u, with a diphthongal sound, as ee, oo, which, probably, was 



