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another a likeness to oneself." This again is precisely the pri- 

 mary signification of the Latin amare ; and if the sentiment 

 impressed in that way the barbarous ancient Aryans, there is no 

 reason why it would not have struck the Guaranis in the same 

 manner. 



In the Tnpi or Lingua Geral the word for love is evidently 

 but a dialectic variation of that in the Guarani. It is given by 

 some authors as gaigu, plainly a form of haihu ; and by others 

 as gaufu. * These forms cannot be analyzed in the Tupi itself, 

 which illustrates its more modern type. 



There are other dialects of this wide-spread stem, but it would 

 not be worth while to follow this expression further in its di- 

 verse forms. It is interesting, however, to note that which 

 appears in the Arawack, spoken in Guiana'. In that tongue to 

 love is kanisin, in which the radical ds ani or ansi. Now we find 

 that ani means "of a kind," peculiar to, belonging to, etc. Once 

 more it is the notion of similarity, of " birds of a feather," which 

 underlies the expression for the conception of love, f 



Conclusions. 

 If, now, we review the ground we have gone over, and classify 

 the conceptions of love as revealed in the languages under dis- 

 cussion, we find that their original modes of expression were as 

 follows : 



1. Inarticulate cries of emotion (Cree, Maya, Qquichua). 



2. Assertions of sameness or similarity (Cree, Nahuatl, Tupi, 

 Arawack). 



3. Assertions of conjunction or union (Cree, Nahuatl, Maya). 



4. Assertions of a wish, desire or longing (Cree, Cakchiquel, 

 Qquichua, Tupi). 



These categories are not exhaustive of the words which I have 

 brought forward, but they include most of them, and probably 



* I find caicu given by Dr. Oouto de Magclhaes in his Curso da Lin qua Geral 

 spfiundo OUendorf (Rio de Janeiro, 1S7C); saisu by Dr. Amaro Cavalcanti in 

 The Brasilian Language and its Agglutination (Rio Janeiro, 1883) ; ftueub by 

 Dias, Diccionario da Lingua Tupi/ (-Leipzig, 185<) and by Dr. E. F. Franca iu his 

 Chresiomathia da Lingua Rrasilica (Leipzig, 1859). 



■\"Ani, es gehort. isl elgen ; la ani, nnch seiner Art." Arawackineh-Deu'ches 

 Worterbuch. This dictionary, published anonymously at Paris, in 1882, in Tome 

 Vlll, of the Bibliotheque Linguistigue Amiric tine, is the production of the Mo- 

 ravian Missionary, Rev. T. S. Schuh man n. See The Literary Works of the For- 

 eign Missionaries of the Mo-aoian Church. By the Rev. <;. H. Reichelt. Trans- 

 lated and annotated by Bishop Edmund do Schweinitz; p. 13 (Bethlehem, 1886). 



