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old Bactric, da, Grreek, ^e, Lettic and 

 Slavonic, de, Gothic, da, high German, ta. 

 Now this d/ia is found to be the common 

 root of all the words given above, and 

 although this cannot be demonstrated here, 

 it is an established fact to any student of 

 the Indo-Germanic family of speech. When 

 this primitive idiom had reached a higher 

 degree of development, certain particular 

 relations began to be expressed by the 

 agglutination or duplication of the radical 

 elements, which still retained the function 

 of words, and had an independent existence. 

 To indicate, for instance, the first person of 

 the present tense, one said d1ia-dha-ma ; 

 whence grew afterwards, as the result of 

 the fusion of elements and the variability 

 of roots, the trisyllable dhadhdmi, old Indie, 

 dddhdmi ; old Bactric, dadhdmi ; Greek, 

 Ti^rifxi; old high German, torn, tuom, for 

 ietbmi ; modern German, t/tue. In that 



