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Forschungen, Th. i. S. 39 und 252), then we shall have to consider, in 

 phonic relations, 1st, that the Greek K (in o(r/ios) has proceeded from the 

 palatial s [which Bopp expresses by /, and Pott by f], as 8e/co, decem, Gothic 

 taihyn from the Indian dasdn ; 2d, that the Indian d* corresponds regularly 

 (Vergleichende Gramm. 99) to the Greek 0, whereby we perceive the rela- 

 tion of KOfffjtos (for KoQ/Jios) to the Sanscrit root 'sud* ; whence also KaQapos. 

 Another Indian expression for world is gagat (pronounced dschagat), of which 

 the proper signification is, ' the going,' as the participle of gagami, ' I go' 

 (from the root ga)." In the inner circle of Hellenic etymology, Kooyioy 

 connects itself, according to Etym. M. (p. 532, 12), most directly with KOW, 

 or rather with Kaiwfj.cu, whence KeKoerjuej'os or xeKafytepor. "Welcker also 

 combines with this (Eine kretische Col. in Theben, S. 23) the name Kafyios, 

 as in Hesychius /co5jwos signifies a Cretan suit of armour. When the Romans 

 adopted the technical language of the philosophy of the Greeks, they appro- 

 priated in a similar manner the word mundus (which, like /cotr/ios, had origi- 

 nally signified female ornament) to the "universe" or "world." Ennius 

 appears to have been the first who ventured on this novelty : according to a 

 fragment preserved by Macrobius, he says, in his dispute with Virgil 

 (Sat. vi. 2), " Mundus cffili vastus constitit silentio ;" as Cicero, " quern nos 

 lucentem mundum vocamus" (Timseus, S. de Univ. cap. 10). The Sanscrit 

 root mctnd, from which Pott (Etym. Forsch. Th. I S. 210) derives the 

 Latin mundus, combines the two significations of shining and adorning. 

 '* Loka" in Sanscrit, signifies both "world" and "people," like the French 

 ** monde," and is derived, according to Bopp, from lok, to see and to shine ; 

 in a similar manner the Slavonian swjet is both light and world, Licht und 

 Welt (Grimm, deutsche Gramm. Bd. iii. S. 394). The original meaning of 

 he latter word, Welt, of which we now make use, weralt in the old High 

 .Tennan, worold in old Saxon, and veruld in Anglo-Saxon, referred rather to 

 lime (sseculum) than to space. Amongst the Tuscans, the "mundus" was 

 ui inverted dome, an imitation of the dome of the sky, or the vault of the 

 ueavens (Otfried Muller, Etrusker, Th. ii. S. 96, 98, and 143). In its more 

 estricted telluric meaning, the word appears in the Gothic language as the 

 disk of earth girt by sea (marei, meri), or as " merigard," a sea-garden. 



(^ p. 57. Respecting Ennius, see the ingenious investigations of Leopold 

 Krahner, in his Grun/jjlinien zur Geschichte des VerfalTs der romischen Staats- 

 Religion, 1837, S. 41 45. It is probable that Ennius did not quote from 

 writings of Epicharmus himself, but from poems written under his name, aud 

 according to the views of his system. 



