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12. Mast, the name for the fattening substance, then applied 

 to its parent tree, when on board a ship, Mastbaum, or simply 

 mast, may find in remote climes and ages such relatives whose 

 family likeness shall be a labial joining a dental, or s. Thus 

 the Russians have maslo for fat, butter, and their progenitors 

 in the fertile Ukraine were called Bastaxnae. The famous 

 Basanitis, Batana?a, ]W3., with its rich pastures (4 Mos. xxxii., 

 Amos, iv., Ez. xxxix., Ps. xxii.) and forests of oak (Es. ii., 

 Zach. xi., Ez. xxvii.), which has changed bs into ms in Chal- 

 dee (Ps. xii. 13) and Syriac (Eph. Syr. ii. p. 1), may be 

 compared to the bs in D"DK, which occurs thrice (1 Kings, iv., 

 Es. i., and Prov. xv.). Both these substantives find no deri- 

 vation, but, instead of comparing, with Freytag (see his Hist. 

 Halebi, p. 50), the Arabic <l2j, it may be observed that 

 btEQ, like coquere, serves both for preparing food and ripen- 

 ing ; also in Turkish bsl means to nourish ; the later Hebrew 

 has DtoS (Greek, fatme, crib), to fatten, after which the labial 

 followed by t, d, will be more common, futter, food, &c, 

 although the primitive verb, esse (essen), vesci, the Sanscrit 



tJP^F have the s, to which may be added pascere, pastum, feist 

 inGerman, and the Italian basta. 



13. Ouch. Fragment of piedouche, peduccio, a neat little 

 pedestal, or foot-stool. 



14. Pagoda, &\£y, Put-kada, idol-temple, for Avhich Put 

 the Persians prefer But, coming nearer to «pEJ (budh) of the 



Sanscrit This, from being the root for wisdom (even 

 "pf"? wissen, wise, wistful, &c.) and pure knowledge, became 

 strongly tinctured with carnal knowledge when Jaina (^\r{ 

 ginomiu, gigno, &c.) was confounded with Buddha, whence But 

 means not only idol, but also God, truth. If the defiling Path- 

 bag, 22ri2 (Dan. i. 8), supposing it originated in "^I'^T^f 

 (Budh-bhoj), or Buddh-food, contains p for b, the corruption 



