730 ORIGIN OF WORDS. 



Le Clerc and others have proved to be nearly 

 identical with Hebrew, and closely allied to the 

 Sanscrit and Zend, from which the ancient Scy- 

 thian, Manchoo Tartar, German, and Celtic are 

 derived, as the Italian, French, and Spanish, 

 from Latin : that Valiancy further asserts, that 

 almost every word in the first twelve verses of 

 the Iliad may be traced back to Phoenician, 

 Egyptian, Chaldee, and Hebrew origin, and 

 that in the native Irish language, which is Celtic, 

 he found fifty words relating to augury and divi- 

 nation, every one of which was oriental. (Ana- 

 calypsis, vol. i. pp. 449, 454, and 461.) 



Corresponding with the foregoing facts, we are 

 informed by Jacob Bryant, in his very learned 

 work on Heathen Mythology, that the Greek 

 words wrj life, wov an animal, and wv to live, 

 were derived from zoon or zoan, a Phoenician and 

 Egyptian name of the sun, showing that in the 

 earliest times, the Greeks regarded life as an 

 emanation from that luminary, as maintained by 

 Macrobius in the third book of his Saturnalia, 

 (p. 282). And Wilkinson states in his late work 

 on Egypt, that onh is still the Coptic word for 

 life, the male principle of which was termed 

 linga, and the female yoni, as in ancient India, 

 where the genetic power of solar heat was repre- 

 sented by the male and female organs of gene- 

 ration, (p. 523 edition 1.) Bryant has further 

 shown, that the Greek word Ai%>, Aither, was 

 derived from the word Aith, Ath, Eth, or Oth, 



