﻿222 ox THE SANSCRIT 



founds two very different words in one instance, and 

 makes tvo words out of one in the other instance. 



Sat litcniily sio-nifies existent, it is employed in 

 tlie acceptation of truth ; Sdti/a, a regular derivative 

 from it, siLyniHes true ; or, employed substantively, 

 truth. The correspondent Hindt word, sach, is cor- 

 rujited from the Sunscrit sattja, by neglecting the 

 final vowel, by substituting y for ?/, according to the 

 ;>-cuiiis of the Ilimlevl dialect, and by transforming 

 the harsh combination fj into the softer sound of ch. 

 Here then is obviously traced the identity of the 

 Hindustani sac/i, and Bengali shotijo, which are only 

 the same Sam^cfit word sat^fa variously pronounced. 



YuvAN signilies young, <uu\ yauvana youth; the 

 first makes Yircd in the nominative case : this is 

 adopted into Hlndustdm willi the usual permutation 

 of consonants, and becomes Jubd^ as Yauvana is 

 transformed into Juban. Tlie same word lias been 

 less corrupted in Persian and Latin, where it stands 

 Jiaodn and Jiwenis, In many inflections the root of 

 Yuvan is contr^rcted into Yun, the possessive case, 

 for example, forms in the three numbers, YiinaSy 

 Yimou, Yundm : here, then, we trace the origin of 

 the Latin comparative Junioi^ ; and I cannot hesi- 

 tate in referring to these Sanscfit loots, the Welsh 

 Jcvaj!gk, and Armorican Jovank, as well as the Saxon 

 Yeong, and finally the English Young. This ana- 

 logy, v/hich seems evident through the medium of 

 the Sanscrit language, is wholly obscured in Iliu' . 

 dustdn]. 



These examples might be easily multij)lied, but 

 unprofitably, I fear; for, after j)roviug that nine- 

 tenths of the Hindi dialect may be traced back to 

 tht iSanscrit kViom, there yet remains the difficulty 

 of accounting for tlie remaining tenth, which is 

 pcrliaps the basis of the Hindi Ian givage. Sir Wil- 

 LrA:(.r Jones thought it so, and he thence inferred, 

 that the pure Hindi was primeval in Upper India, 

 into v/hich the Sanscrit was introduced by conquer- 

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