146 ON THE ETYMOLOGY, &C 



In the language of the Irish, Thine, and in the Erse of Scot- 

 land, Tetne, is lire. The Welsh, the Cornwallians, and the 

 people of Little-Brittany, call it Tan. These are all of the 

 Celtic stock. Other Celts of the old world call it Tan, and 

 Dar. Several of the North-American tribes unite the two 

 last mentioned words into one. Thus the Delawares, or Lenne- 

 Lennape, call fire, Tendeu, Tindey, Tindai, Tacnda, and Twen- 

 daigh: the Pampticoughs, Tinda, and the Sankikani (as early 

 as 1633) Tinleyvoe. — In the language of the Nanticokes 

 (a North-American tribe), Tind is fire. This is precisely the 

 English verb, to kindle, to set on fire. * 



2. Peat or Turf. Of this well known substance, so com- 

 mon in the northern parts of the oid and new world, where it 

 is used as fuel, Johnson has not attempted to give us the de- 

 rivation. But I find, that the Naudowessies, or Sioux-Indians, 

 of North-America, call fire Peta. 



N. B. The language of this great tribe abounds in Finnic 

 words. 



3. Morass, a fen, bog, or moor. According to Johnson, 

 from the French Mantis. Perhaps, however, this word may 

 be better traced to the Permian word for the sea, Morae, or to 

 the Gipsey-word Mows, the sea. 



4. Map, a geographical picture. From Mappa, Low-Latin. 

 Johnson. Several of the Asiatic tribes call the earth, Ma. 

 Such are the Permians, above mentioned, different tribes of 

 Vogoulitchi, or Vouguls, who inhabit the Oural-mountains. 

 The Gipsey name (or rather one of their names) is Poo, or Pu. 

 Does it not seem, that the Latin Mappa and the English map, 

 are composed of the Ma and the Poo, which I have mention- 

 ed ? But what is remarkable, the Chilese of South- America 

 actually call the earth Mapu. 



5. Valley, a low ground, a hollow between hills. Vallee, 

 French ; Vallis, Latin. — The Kartalini, one of the nations of 

 Mount-Caucasus, call a valley, Velee: the Miamis, of North- 

 America, Walaich-kack-ki-kai. 



6. Star. One of the luminous bodies of the heavens. The 

 Persian and Buchanan word is Statu: the Aganske, Sturee* 

 The Osetti call it Stela, which is very similar to the Latin. 



