b« 



8 



(T.W.,p.270; M.,v.l, 



Jg (M. V. 1, p. 370), tau, ^r^ p.365), tun, to swallow; 

 "^ loquacious. Klj &c., &c. 



The radical can is also sometimes written like the Greek delta, as in 

 tan, A A , or b U (T. W., pp. 224, 225). 



Y? (T. W.J p. 172, &c.), fa% a mound, numerous. The name 

 l^ and the hieroglyphic or phonetic value of this character, are 

 retained precisely, and the form very nearly, in the German 35. 



(T. W., p. 172), pi^, a boundary. This character, like 

 tu^, p. 7, is composed of a radical, and a sound-giving primi- 

 tive, and may be thus interpreted : " The territory-radical (yi), when 

 it is pronounced pi^, signifies a houndarij." This radical and the 

 preceding, are distinguished by their position in compound cha- 

 racters, yi being placed on the right, and fa^U on the left. Yi is 

 pronounced yap in the Canton dialect, — pi^ is the Chinese pronun- 

 ciation of the English letter B (their language having no h sound) ; 

 yap and fa^u are almost identical, both in form and in phonetic 

 value, with German 53 and 55, — b and v are frequently interchanged 

 in most of the Indo-Germanic languages, and it is therefore not im- 

 probable that the Greek y5, Roman B, and German S and 35, spring 

 from the same original hieroglyphic as the Chinese yi and fa^U. 



^ >"n (T. W., pp. 154 and 171), pi^ ( — qp^ulor), to assist. 



I u\i ''The seal-radical, when it is pronounced pi^, signifies to 

 assist." May not the Greek -, and Roman P, both have been bor- 

 rowed from the difi'erent elements of this compound character ? 



|i (T. W., p. 106), ca^g, to resist. If this hieroglyph were 

 I^S adopted in an alphabet it would properly represent the K 

 sound. 



/3orrA(T.W, pp. 98, 224), Q (T. W, p. 224), ta'n, 



V^ \ y ji, sun ; day. sunrise. 



This hieroglyph has the form of Greek theta, and the ideas of 

 warmth and power are found in OdXrrio, Oipio, Oioq, Ziuq, dies, dens. 

 If there is a radical connection between these several words, the 

 primitive root was probably di. The several changes of di into dji 

 and ji, Oe and Zs, arc easy and natural. 



1 C (M., v. 1, p. 221), tsie, to cut. The first character may 

 // possibly have the same origin as the Roman t. 



