EARLY ARABIA AND OCEANIA. 



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The words in these two columns, word for word, triliteral stems 

 and particles, have suffered,- in the course of untold ages, but little 

 phonetic change. But, in order that the weight of the evidence in 

 proof of the Arabian view thus afforded may be dtily appreciated, it 

 is necessary to take into account, in so far as seen in the list, the 

 purely Semitic inflectional modifications of these triliteral stem-words 

 by internal vowel change and external addition ; for of these all that 

 space will permit to be done here is to refer to the work above named. 



