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ZEIN, tintinnavit, klingeln, and other like words given in tlie list 

 of Mr. Renan. Let us then conclude that for onomatopoeia the 

 American languages are second to none, and that among them the 

 Iroquois is distinguished by its tendency to take the quadriliteral 

 form. But there are other analogies. 



" Such will be the analogy which exists between the Algonquin 

 prefixes and the Hebrew affixes. 



SabaktaNi, thou hast forgotten me, Ni, me, 



JadeKA, thy hand, ka, of thee, J> Heb. afF. 



RagheLO, his foot, o, of him, 



Ninaganik, he forgets me, Ni, me, 



Kinindj, thy hand, ka, of thee, J> Alg. pref. 



0, his foot, 0, of him or of her, 



" This is an example which mightbe considered as an argument in 

 favor of the homogeneity of languages, and which demonstrates, 

 moreover, that the savage tongues have not a character exclusively 

 sensuous, in the sense that Mr. Kenan gives to that word, but that 

 they are,, at least as psychological as the In do-Germanic languages. 



" The Algonquin root enim serves to express all the intellectual 

 operations, all the dispositions of the soul, all the emotions of the 

 heart, all the acts either of the mind or the will. Thus it will 

 be said : ni 7ninsenimdam, I am contented ; ni gacJcenindam, I 

 am sad ; ni minsenima, I am satisfied with somebody ; ni cinge 

 nima, I am not satisfied with it; ni saTcenima, I am heartily 

 attached to him; nindapitenima, I esteem him : ni mcJcenima, I 

 trouble his mind, I make him angry ; ni pagosenima, I make my 

 supplications to him in my heart, I pray to him inwardly ; ni 

 7citsitSa8en{7na, I venerate him, I think him worthy of honor ; 

 ni hikenima, I know him; ni kSaiakSenima, I know him per- 

 fectly ; ni piziskenima, I can remember him ; ni mikaSenima, I 

 remember him; ni mitonenima, I think of him; ni nihSaJcaSeni- 

 ma, I believe him wise ; ni tatSenima, I understand it, I conceive 

 it, I seize it with the mind ; ninol obtiteienwia, I reach him with 

 my thought, my mind reaches up to him ; ni tanenima, I believe 

 him present ; ni panenima, he escapes my thought, my mind can- 

 not reach him ; ni Sanenima, I forget it, I lose the remembrance 

 of it; ni tangenima, I touch it (him) with my mind, it seems to 

 me that I touch it (him). 



" Is not the importance of this root enim a thing truly worthy 



