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-bap, which is pronounced either icar or vur, and which is a 

 very common formative suffix, e. g. 



ao-map, fortunate, from ao, luck, 

 pac-riiap, prosperous, „ pac, prosperity. 

 Oul-bap, doleful, ,, Dul, = dol-eo. 



He is also of opinion that the Hebrew termination 1ST is 

 also sometimes referable to the same head. As an example he 

 selects the word ~IZM, a leopard, properly spotted, which he 

 compares, both in root and formative affix, to the Irish nenii- 

 riiap, spotted. 



A third point of resemblance between Hebrew and the 

 Celtic branch of Indo-European is found in the Hebrew ter- 

 mination rtT ah, which is nothing more than a softened form 

 of the Irish adjective suffix -ac = aiiiail. Thus, irmN denotes 

 fiery, and so is identical in meaning with bsmN, above no- 

 ticed. The i in these formations would accordingly be merely a 

 union- vowel. In this way a great number of proper names are 

 disposed of which are commonly supposed to contain as their 

 final element the name of God, n\ Thus, in the example se- 

 lected, the ordinary interpretation of the name is "the flame 

 of Jehovah." 



A fourth point of resemblance is found between the 

 Hebrew adjective termination t— - and the Irish -l&e, in which 

 the consonant is silent. Thus "niN, fiery, is equivalent to 

 rrms and bWHIN. To the same origin Mr. Crawford would 

 refer the -id in cand-iW-us, and similar words. 



The Hebrew, fifthly, agrees with the Irish in its formative 

 affix }Q-=ariiain, which is foundin such words, e.g. as pcmamain, 

 from pan, to stay. As an illustration of this the author se- 

 lects the Hebrew ]El~)N, which denotes reddish-purple, and 

 which he finds to be identical, both as to its root and affix, 

 with the Irish eapc-ariiain. This formation he finds in Latin, 



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