the Structure of Language. V7\ 



So that, as a prefix, or when followed by the soft aspirate or 

 vowel rr, or by the vowel ^, the significant D exerts its ideal 

 character II. 



With the formative K affixed, the bow-letter forms the bili- 

 teral ^3 (CA), which is expressive of smiting. So that, in this 

 biliteral, the significant D exerts its ideal character III. 



With the formative 1 affixed, the bow-letter forms the biliteral 

 ID (CU or CV), which is used, in a figurative sense, to denote 

 the pungent action, or effect of heat. And with the formative 

 D affixed, as VJD (CM), the bow-letter is similarly applied. 

 So the English HoT and HeaThoxe the same primary import, 

 and the same common origin as HiT and CuT, they being 

 endowed with the import of nD (CT), the derivative of 3, from 

 which significant is also formed the Greek Kccicy, uro. So that 

 in the biliterals lO and DD, the significant D exerts its ideal 

 character III. 



We have thus taken a hasty view of the mode in which bili- 

 terals are constructed from the significant under consideration. 

 In some of these, the significant exerts one only of its ideal cha- 

 racters ; in others, two of these. 



Thus it exerts its ideal characters I. and II. in the biliterals 

 b^y WD, *^D, ID ; its ideal character II. in the biliterals 

 TlDy O, r\D, ]D, (p also, in some instances, conveys the ideal 

 character I.) ; it exerts its ideal characters II. and III. in the 

 biliteral ^ti;; while in the biliterals KD, *)D^ DD, and DD, 

 it exerts its ideal character, III. 



These, then, are the Primary biliteral derivatives of the sig- 

 nificant D ; we now come to the consideration of the secondary 

 biliteral derivatives of the same significant. 



We have seen that the bow-letter J is not only the sjnnbol or 

 sign of idea^, but that it is also the sign of a sound, which sound 

 belongs, as has been already stated, to the palatine class of 

 sounds. [See the phonic character of D.] Now there is a most 

 important rule, which is extensively prevalent in the Hebrew 

 language (as we at present find it) and in other languages, which 

 may be thus stated : letters of the same organ of speech (i. e. 

 letters whose phonic characters belong to the same doss of vocal 

 sounds) are mutable with, or liable to be substituted, or ex- 



