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capable of regular change to the end of 

 expressing relation, as, for instance, Band 

 Bund, Bind-e ; Flug, Flieg-e, Jlog ; grahe, 

 gruh ; riss, reisse ; e-Xi-ttoi', \uit-ii), Xk-Xonr-a, 

 and so forth. Other languages have more 

 than one verbal form ; the Semitic family 

 for instance has E^ p E^ E^s, p E^'s, etc. 

 Yet in spite of this great contrast to the 

 Indo-Gernianic family which is represented 

 by the formula p E'' (being the prefix- 

 construction), the two neighbours do again 

 concur in this respect that they are the 

 only idioms which are known for a cer- 

 tainty to have the radical form E^. 



Such striking analogies in the con- 

 struction of families geographically allied 

 we imagine to be the posthumous births 

 from the time of the earlier and earliest 

 career of human speech. The homes and 

 hearths of those languages which are 

 essentially analogous in their principle of 



