238 MAJOR C. BR. CONDER, R.E., D.C.L., LL.D., M.R.A.S., 
and “blood.” If we are to suppose that these words were 
borrowed, it would seem to follow that the Egyptians, who 
were so remarkable for their love of colour, had no native 
words to express black, white, or red. On the other hand 
these terms were widely used by Semitic peoples, since they 
occur in Arabic as well as in Hebrew. The Aryan words, 
and the Mongol names, for these colours, though of analogous 
origin, come from very different roots, and the names of 
colours give perhaps as good evidence of connection between 
languages as can be found. In this case we see that not only 
the simplest words, but others which denote a considerable 
advance in thought, serve to connect the Egyptian and the 
Semitic tongues. 
Having thus briefly sketched out the results which seem to 
me to arise from a study of ancient languages, which has 
occupied many years of my spare time—results which pre= 
sented themselves from time to time without at first suggest- 
ing any general principle, or appearimg to me to be more 
than fortuitous resemblances—I have only to add, in asking 
for a merciful treatment of my imperfect attempts, that the 
present paper was not penned with any ulterior object, to 
support any particular theory as to the origin of mankind, 
but merely grew up out of the constant inspection of various 
grammars and dictionaries, undertaken for quite other pur- 
poses. I have been gradually led, however, to the behef that 
the evidence of language favours the supposition that Asiatic 
man as a whole was descended from a single original stock ; 
andif what we hear stated as to other languages be pr ovable, 
it would seem that from Asiatic man sprang the entire 
population of the modern world, 
COMPARATIVE LIST OF COMMON ROOTS. 
N.B.—Akk., Akkadian. Egt., Egyptian. Ar. Aryan. Heb., Hebrew. 
Ass., Assyrian, Arab., Arabic. Tk., Turkic. Fn., Finnic-Ugrie. 
Mon., Mongol. Ch., Cantonese, dialect of Chinese. Med., Proto- 
Medic. Sus., Susvan. 
Cuiass [.— BREATHING. 
1, AW. Egt., au, “to blow.” Ar. aw, wa, “blow,” “breathe”; aw, 
“desire.” <Ass., au, “wind.” Arab., hawa, “breeze.” Tk., 02, 
“taney. (Chiou, “love.” 
