26o INDO-GERMAN COGNATES. 



Some words seem close, through false association, Hovv 

 tempting" to the harassed housewife, for example, is the idea th?t 

 the houseboy sent on an errand is erring and straying like an 

 arrant knave, i.e., errant boy. Whereas errand is pure English, 

 and has nothing probably to do with crrarc. which is so nnii'er- 

 saliter human ! 



Some words are really close in form and meaning, but noi 

 obviously so, because of the omission of a letter. Thus, a nit 

 is very like a grain of dust, in Gk. kovk; (stem /coinS ) ; but it has 

 dropped its Ji. 



Sometimes the meaning is even identical, with the form 

 apparently ver}' different : thus a hurdle, a crate, and a grating. 

 are similar in form, or rather in make, and their names ety- 

 mologically allied. 



Having illustrated various types of relation between Aryan 

 words in their variant forms, I shall now give further examples 

 in connection with their Aryan bases in Hirt's order. It will be 

 seen how extraordinarily different has been the development, 

 though the base will reveal the unity of origin. 



Arvan Bases of One Svllai'.le. 



B'lsc Illustrations. RciiKuks. 



DHE (place, do ) The deed is not a hypo- The Gk (L /) 

 thesis hut 3. fact. corresponds (bv 



Grimm's Law) to 



our (/ 



SPE (extend) The psahnist did not de- da-spernre is to lose 



spiiir (L), thou,!4h but patience, and lai/^ 



a spam's spine (L) of sufferinj^-. Double 



life seemed left him. consonants are very 



stable in Ar\an 

 lan^"ua<^es. 

 LED He was full of lassitude Aryan liquids are \er\- 



(L) and always late. stable. 



STHA. The Canon had a staid Double consonants 



sfiiiidiiii^ stutiouitry ( L) a,!;-ain. 



in his stall. 

 BHA Many a fable (L) passes 



on the ' phoue (Gk) and 

 many a prophet's (Gk) 

 fiuic (L) is blighted. 

 MAGH The mechanics (Gk) of a 



////o-/;/v niaeli ine (L from 

 Gk). ' 

 BHOG To hake their fellow-men (f) in Gk (/ in L) ^ 



was a function of the our b by Grimm. 



authvopoph agi (Gk). In Herodotus' story 



of Pharaoh's ex- 

 periment with 

 isolated infants to 



