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DVA 
to twee 
two zwie 
tvau ZWel 
247. 1. Sanserit dAnta (a tooth;) 2. Anglish tOth; 3. Greek odod< Gothic tUndus, Eng. 
tooth ;—2’. Latin pENs; 3’. Turkish pIr¢ (deesh;) Eng. tine, in Latin letters Tan. 
4 3 2 1 2’ 37 4’ 
dAnta 
tO0 DENS 
tU6 pir. 
cole TAIN 
248. If we pronounce ov of the Greek form like ow in rownd, the word, as far as this 
part is concerned, will occupy the fourth place of the labial side, and be a newer word 
than tooth, which is newer than ¢oth, although the use of o in spelling tooth, might cause 
one ignorant of the sound, to suppose the Anglish and English forms to be of equal age. 
249. Precession is commonly confined to one side of the vowel scale, as in most of the 
following examples. 
A+~-O-+ U + AY. 
Latin fratér (a brother) Gothic brOfar; German brUder; Welsh brawd. 
Latin sanus (sane =sEN;) Belg. zOnd; Angl., Dan. sUnd; Eng. sound, with d educed 
from n. Latin paltis; Isl. pot, Ang. PuL a pool. 
Lat., Sp., Ital., corOna, Belg. krOon; Rhaetian, crUnna; Eng. crown. 
250. A+ O+ U+ TI 
Here U, instead of becoming AV, crosses to I. Latin fA°gus; Angl. bOc; Ger. bUche; 
Eng. beech. The Rhaetian fuw is from FAGUs by elision. 
Latin i110‘, illUe, illIc (thither.) 
201. A+ E+ I+ A. 
Latin alA‘cér; Fr. 1H’ger; Sp. lIgero; Eng. light (active.) 
Ang. nAther; Old Eng. nEther; Eng. neIther; and (vulgarly, as if) nigh-ther. 
Isl. badi (both,) old high German bethe; old Fris. bide; German beide. 
252. A regular transition has occurred in English from A thorough E to I, and the se- 
condary vowel of i#. This is shown by the fact, that the character ‘A, a, a,’ used through- 
out the world with its proper power in am, far, has in English acquired the power and 
name of the European ‘&,’ this in its turn has been confounded with the European ‘1,’ 
which, by a similar perversion, has become the partial representative of an epenthetic A. 
