SUBDOMINANT MEANINGS OF L. 87 



Lat. /abor (to slide and go down) whence /abor as that 

 which fatigues, relaxes, overcomes ; ?atch (what is lei, 

 to fall), /atches (faults, things which fail or fall away 

 from the obligation) ; louse, Wizard (a glider.) 



b. 

 Sitbdominance of the Opposite Meanings of L. 



1. To BEAT or strike ; 2. To GRAB, fasten or hold. 



1. To BEAT or strike ; to Zick, to /amn (let fly at and 

 hit), a ?amb, a young animal arrived at the killing or 

 knocking-down age) ; Zamina (anything beaten flat), 

 Ger. Watt, a feaf, a f'at thing (Eng. bZade) ; Lat. fax 

 and famen, Eng. light (Lat. faceo, to shine to 

 stream or beam out and strike or fall upon), lucid, 

 luminous, ?ook ; Hit (up-heave), Ger. ?uft (the air, 

 what is above) ; foft, ?evity, tightness. 



2. To GKAB (or fasten), a ?igue (a binding, Lat. ligo, 

 TO BIND, the use of a line ; Fr. ?ier, TO TIE) ; a lock 

 (as of the hair ; what is first left free to flow, whence 

 it curies in upon itself or fastens together, Lat. pfico, 

 to fold), ?ock (a fastener) this opposite idea result- 

 ing from that of first leaving free.) 



120. In respect to the scientific probability that 

 Sounds should comport their own meaning, there are 

 two schools of opinion among philologists, on the 

 subject. Socrates, Plato, Heyse and Max Muller re- 

 present a class of scholars who have persisted in be- 

 lieving in this inherent natural alliance between 

 sound and sense, in advance of any great positive 

 ability, on their part, to establish the theory. There 



