PART III 



SPECIAL WORDS FOR SEX AND RELATIONSHIP 



He who would still hold familiar intercourse with them, must train himself 

 to penetrate the veil which in ever-thickening folds conceals them from the 

 ordinary gaze ; he must catch the tone of a vanished society, he must move in 

 a circle of alien associations, he must think in a language not his own. ARTHUR 

 J. BALFOUR. 



IN the first part of this paper we considered the accepted 

 picture of the primitive Aryan family ; in the second 

 part we deduced from the general words for sex and 

 kinship a picture of the primitive Teutonic group 

 entirely at variance with the hitherto accepted views on 

 Aryan kinship. It now remains to be shown that the 

 special words for sex and relationship, upon which the 

 latter views are based, are themselves capable of a different 

 interpretation, not only consistent with, but tending to 

 confirm the existence of a primitive kindred group - 

 marriage. In studying these special words I propose 

 still to keep, so far as possible, to the Teutonic forms. 



(1) Of mann, beyond the statement that originally 

 it appears to have denoted a human being apart from 

 sex, there is little to be said. An anthropologist would 

 probably give more weight than the philologists appear 

 to do to the notion of remaining, dwelling, in the root, 

 and less to that of thinking, remembering. 



