496 PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. 



inclytiu^ flimous — Gr. «xi,v,,, to hear, attend, obey; k^^tc;, 

 audible, celebrated : — =<v<fa, voice,' difcourfe, mcffage ; a^Hu^ 

 to caufe a found, fpeak : w;.,t, loud, celebrated — Lat. audio 

 to Ibund, hear, attend, obey : — Is. qiiedia to fpeak ; S. quacda 

 to fing: — Gr. »;^, found, *x^" to refound : «<»», ear, hearing;, 

 report, oration ; a^i-i-, to hear, underftand, be named — P. B. 

 R. itcbo ear — in moft European languages echo refonance : 

 — Gr. ^}ix"\ to found : S. braka to cralh ; braeka to bleat ; 



fpraka to hiap as fome firewood — A'S.Jpraekan, G. fprechen, 

 H. fpreekcn to fpeak : S. fpraka to chat ; G. fprache^ H. 



fpraakj S.Jprdk language : — Ir. buircadh^ to bell, roar, bray 

 — MS. iz-cuird^ H. woord, AS. ivord, G. ivort, S. ord a 

 word: — E. toll to found a bell — ^.-{-tidla to fing : AS. 

 tcllan, to tell : S. for t^ Ha to relate, tcclja to number — T. 

 and 1 5 Tartar tribes :|: //'//, tell, d'll tongue : S. tal^ fpeecb^ 

 oration, tala to fpeak: — H. harangozas, a found : harang 

 a bell : Go. hark a noife, haven, to hollow : S. hanigla a 

 fpecies of very loud owl — AS. hearpe, G. harfe, Fr. harpc^ 

 H. harp, S. I'o. Sp. barpa, a harp — Fr. harangue^ ora- 

 tion : Caraib. arianga to fpeak — L. orare to fpeak, I^. 

 aur'is^ G. ohr^ H, oor, Fr. orelllc, S. ora. Is. eira, AS. 

 care, ear — organ ^ orchedter, &c. are relatives ; and proba- 

 bly Orpheus the celebrated Thractan who charmed Tartarus 



itfelf by the plaintive ftrains for his Eurydice. 



Thefe fadls with many more throw a light on the rudi- 

 ments of early languages and manners : — as the terms for 

 fpeaking were congenial with the general pronunciation, 

 they indicate a mixture of different tribes : as ■^firr^c, tv«, 

 ta.y.iu-, in the Greek ; tal and fprak in the Swedish : the dif- 

 ferent qualities of the founds exprefs congenial mental dif- 

 pofitions, as lively and dull, ftrong and weak, polite and 

 coarfe ; the rudenefs of a tribe muft have been the grofler, 

 as it called its own fpeech, and the noifes of groveling or 

 fierce beads by one name. In the progrefs of language 

 the primseval terms for fpeech are accordingly either fo 

 polillied as to be almofl changed, or appropriated to natu- 

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