2/2 indo-german cognates. 



Trisvllaiuc Bases. 



Bases. Illustrations. Remarks. 



DEREWO 79/'rads, if not r//7/ids, are It is doubtful if 



connected with trees. Druid is connected 



with Bpv^' (oak) cf. 

 Sopv (spear). 

 KWEKWELO The hkvcle is a hec-u'lieel, 



AJEWO and ^oes on for ever Gothic, ai-n's. Sk. 



and aye, fi'ernally ayiis (L) aivoiii 



throui^h the aeons. ( (/ 6' r / - t e r n u s ) 



=^ alwv. 



I trust that these nonsense-sentences have not wearied m/ 

 readers — I have been thinking largely of young students whose 

 philological labours need lightening. They at least have shown 

 the extraordinary powers of dialectical change and association, 

 as the mingled causes which have set our languages so far apart 

 ni the Aryan family, that we can seldom recognise by the light 

 of nature the cousinship I)etwcen the derixatives frcjm the same 

 original base. 



I recently heard of two brothers who had been working for 

 years in South Africa, but had not succeeded in meeting, unlil 

 thev were one day introdticed to one another. A similar estrange- 

 ment of members of the same family long parted in distant landf 

 has suggested the title of my paper — " The humour of estranged 

 Indo-German cognates." 



I commend to our educationists tlie following method of 

 teaching European langtiages, and so mtich of ancient languages 

 as are required for the understanding of these by the ordinary 

 " modern side " boy. Surrender Latin and Greek composition, 

 and even Syntax, appropriating part of the time saved to elemen- 

 tary Aryan philology, and tise Greek, Latin (French, Italian 

 Spanish, etc.), and (jerman vocaljularies, to illustrate Grimm 

 and other philological laws given by the philology elements. 

 Li this way we preserve the practical utility of the classics for 

 English derivatives and scientific nomenclature; but we teach 

 the words in connection with the original Aryan bases, and the 

 modern forms of Aryan, somewhat as in the following key. The 

 examples of the preceding pages might help to lighten the sub- 

 ject and to amuse the youthful philologists. 



