iSS PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. 



The Greek i;/«f, may be a relative of dur ; or more pro- 

 bably a compound. The Hebrew '-;5— '^ are cognate with 

 n»j-_ancl fimilar Chald. and Arabic, from which feveral 



modern fpring. 



Names of lire are equally dlllindf : — modern European, 

 E. Jire — G.feiir — H. vuur — S. eld : D. ild — R. ogn, ogo/i 

 — P. ogien — B. ohen — Fr. feu — It. fuoco — Sp.fucgo — ^l-o. 

 Jbgo — W. C. A. fan — Ir. fd^e — Ca. /ua — Hu. iiiz — Fi. 

 /u/i — La. io//e .•—modern Afiatic Turk, and Perf. atefch — 

 Ma. tua—Oc\. choa\lo — C. M. ^^///— la. /, jinoko—MA. 

 <//)/ — feveral Tartar tribes, od — ot — oot — oth — ott — vari- 

 ous nations and tribes — datt — ari — -Jchapko — may — mu'iga 



— rnilhyt — hoth — //// — -fi'^-'^—fSS'^'^ — zzah : American ; 



in the north — tcenda — tlnda — tendcw — tintewey — fcute : 

 fcutau — -Jquittah^kotaiceh — cheer a — cheela — fiauiv : ftauuh 

 — bucktouw — paatha — toalca — toiitkah — loak — loozvak — lu- 

 ■zi'ock — ciieejlah — ogecjia — otfchijla — utbfyfta — ocheekh — tit- 

 char — rem — oua — jjh : in the fouth ; oiiattoii — ouapoto — 

 /i7 ta — qiietal — citthuL 



European obfoletes are ; W. yve! — As. celed — S. and Is. 

 fyr. Ir. ydh — aodh — daig — doigh — bolt — buite — breo — ur — 

 drag — breo. Some of thefe are difl:in£t from all the pre- 

 ceding. 



The Hebrew ^f^ ; Gr. nuf ; and L. tgnis^ are kindred 

 with fome of the mentioned. 



I Ihall prefently fhow that fome of the obfoletes for wa- 

 ter and fire which are not referable to any of the modern, 

 have yet extenfive kindred families, w^hen they with 

 others come under fome interefting viev/s; in meantime 

 I remark how narrow the claffic and modern European 

 limits are for the fearch of primitive words ; and that ma- 

 ny of thefe might have been loft. The mentioned claffic 

 words were the only current ones in the refpeclive lan- 

 guages: the relatives oi water (real or apparent) engrofs local 

 three-fourths of modern Europe, and a part of Afia ; yet 



how 



