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more ancient forms of this derived noun than the Latin, 
the second digamma being here retained. I believe the for- 
mer of the two digammas was always dropped in those Indo- 
European forms which adopted the redoubled primitive, 
though retained when the simple primitive was used. _ 
‘*To return from this digression. It appears pretty evi- 
dent that either hwa or hwu was the primitive form of the pro- 
noun of the first person singular; but a new question arises— 
what was the ku which appears in combination with this in 
all the Semitic and Indo-European languages? This ques- 
tion is, I think, capable of being answered in a most satisfac- 
tory manner. Inthe Accadian language hu is a post-position, 
equivalent to the Assyrian preposition ana, originally hwana. 
It signified ‘to’ or ‘for,’ or, in fact, ‘here,’ as ad in adsum. 
Hwa-ku was then ‘I here; this ku was etymologically con- 
nected with the Latin cis, citra, and with the c in hic, which 
is, as I have already stated, hi-ce, ‘he here;’ a similar form 
to hwa-ku, but of much more recent origin. 
«¢ This being settled, there are two reasons why hwu, and 
not hwa, is to be regarded as the primitive form. In the first 
place hwa was the primitive word for ‘ water,’ and we cannot 
suppose that ‘water’ and ‘I were expressed by the same 
word. This would bein the highest degree improbable. Se- 
condly, if hwa were the primitive form, no good reason could 
be given for its having been converted into hwu, from which 
the Accadian mu must have been derived; whereas hwu might 
easily pass into Awa (long u, as in bull, into the natural vowel 
a, as in America) when shortened for the preformative and the 
affix,—neither of which takes the accent, and both of which 
occasionally drop the vowel altogether, as in’ hwu-sib, where 
the uw is radical; and abi for abya, and that for abhwa—in- 
stances that have been already given. It is true that this 
does not account-for the form hwaku, where the a is long and 
has the accent. That may, however, be accounted for on a 
different principle. The Accadians had the very opposite 
