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-bap, which is pronounced either war or var, and which is a 
very common formative suffix, e. g. 
ad-thap, fortunate, from ad, luck. 
fPat-thap, prosperous, ,, pat, prosperity. 
oul-bap, doleful, 5, oul, = dol-eo. 
He is also of opinion that the Hebrew termination 7" is 
also sometimes referable to the same head. As an example he 
selects the word 153, a leopard, properly spotted, which he 
compares, both in root and formative affix, to the Irish neni- 
than, spotted. 
A third point of resemblance between Hebrew and the 
_ Celtic branch of Indo-European is found in the Hebrew ter- 
mination 7 ah, which is nothing more than a softened form 
of the Irish adjective suffix -a¢=athal, Thus, 7°78 denotes 
| fiery, and so is identical in meaning with YN78, above no- 
- ticed. The » in these formations would accordingly be merely a 
: union-vowel. In this way a great number of proper names are 
disposed of which are commonly supposed to contain as their 
final element the name of God, 7. Thus, in the example se- — 
_ lected, the ordinary interpretation of the name is “ the flame 
: of Jehovah.” 
4 A fourth point of resemblance is found between the 
__ Hebrew adjective termination »— and the Ivish -1e, in which 
the consonant is silent. Thus 8, fiery, is equivalent to 
mS and YN. To the same origin Mr. Crawford would 
refer the -id in cand-id-us, and similar words. 
| The Hebrew, fifthly, agrees with the Irish in its formative 
affix 74" = athain, which is found in such words, e. g. as Fanamain, 
from fan, to stay. As an illustration of this the author se- 
_lects the Hebrew 72298, which denotes reddish-purple, and 
which he finds to be identical, both as to its root and affix, 
with the Irish eapé-atham. This formation he finds in Latin, 
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