266 ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES. 
denote superposition. Ex: (13 ¥) ibr, in chaldean 
(over); uper, in Greek, iiber,in German. The 
Latins have added an S.: super; Fr: sur; su 
or sovra in Italian. 
The T and the R, conjointlyor separately, are 
universally used to express noise or the effects 
of noise on the senses; Tonitru, tonare, tonnerre, 
Donner, thunder ; tremor, zittern, to tremble. 
The dentals T or D, preceded by a vowel, 
mean eating: S': Ada; Gr.ed6; L.: edo, I eat; 
G: essen. The S and Tare often substituted 
to one another in all languages. 
It is curious to observe how words, in passing 
from one language to another, frequently vary 
the meaning of the root. From the German 
“tragen” to carry, the French and the English 
have formed two verbs, tirer and trainer, to draw 
and to drag. Of the Sanskrit Hasta, (hand) the 
Latins have made a lance, just as of the latin 
Arma the Teutons formed the Arm; Vulpis, a 
fox, is changed into a wolf (Wolf); “ Stultus,” 
a fool in latin, becomes “ Stolz,” a proud man, in 
German, and a “Stout”? one in English. The 
old French word “ Hustins,” noise, tumult, has 
