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vulJidva ; likewise ast/ii,ii bono, (Greek, ostoun ;) denfa, 

 a tooth, (Latin, dens, dentis ;) eyeumen, the eye ; hrouvxi, 

 the eyebrow, (German, hraue ;) nasa, the nose ; Imric, 

 the hand, (Gr. clieir ;) genu, the knee, (Lat. genu ;) ]>ed, 

 the foot, (Lat. 7^65, j;ef/zs;) hrti, the heart; jecur, the 

 liver, {Ln.t. jecicr ;) stara, a star; gela, cold, (Lat. gelu, 

 ice;) aglnii, fire, (Lat. ignis;) dhara, the earth, (Lat. 

 ^err«, Gaelic, ^/r ;) arrivi, a river ; ^lait, a ship, (Gr. 7iaus, 

 Lat. navis ;) ghau, a cow; srwpam, a serpent. 



The inferences from these verbal cohicidences were 

 confirmed in a striking manner when Bopp and others 

 investigated the grammatical structure of this family of 

 languages. Dr. Wiseman pronounces that the great 

 philologist just named, "by a minute and sagacious 

 analysis of the Sanskrit verb, compared with the con- 

 jugational system of the other members of this family, 

 left no doubt of their intimate and jDositive affinity." It 

 was now discovered that the peculiar terminations or 

 inflections by which persons are expressed throughout 

 the verbs of nearly the whole of these languages, have 

 their foundations in pronouns ; the pronoun was simply 

 placed at the end, and thus became an inflection. " By 

 an analysis of the Sanskrit pronouns, the elements of 

 those existing in all the other languages were cleared of 

 their anomalies ; the verb substantive, which in Latin 

 is composed of fragments referable to two distinct roots, 

 here found both existing in regular form ; the Greek 

 conjugations, with all their complicated machinery of 

 middle voice, augments, and reduplications, were here 

 found and illustrated in a variety of ways, which a few 

 years ago would have appeared chimerical. Even our 

 own language may sometimes receive light from the 

 study of distant members of our family. Where, for 

 instance, are we to seek for the root of our comj^arative 



