OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE. 



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10, tatta, tatc. Cft\, 3N ; Yor., baba, oba; Dale, ate; Egypt., at, atai, atf or atu ; Chin., 

 £00, father, elder, superior; cboo, lord, master. 



35. Mother. — 1, 8, 9, 10, mama; 2, maio ; 5, mlcla; 6, mao ; 7, maacho ; 3, ia ; 4, 

 ycya; Cfr. Yor., mo, to build or form of clay; aino (that which moulds or is moulded), 

 potters clay, a child, ;* abiamo {child-bearer) mother; iya or yoyo, mother; Dak., mama, 

 mother, a woman's breast ; Eg., rau (Cop., man) ; Chin., moo, mother, mould, form. 



3G. Sun. — 1, dshua; 2, dzua; 3, kua ; 5, zua; 8, ezooah ; 9, ezoolo; 10, sultu; 11, 

 massou androu; 4, engolo; 6, ilanga; 13, ra, la, laa; 14, la, ginga, asth ; 15, nangasnga ; 



9, tenguaj 10, tunga. Cfr. Yor., odi6, day ; mo, rag, tat , yag, to shine; orug,s%, heaven; 

 oruy, sun; oro or owuro, aurora, morning ; Egyp., la or ra, sun, day ; Sans., a rt ra) (Cfr., 

 a(TT7j/>),sky ; dyu, ra'dj, sur, to shine; diva«, day • div, shy; dyau«, the bright heaven, or aether ; 

 (whence 2Wf, 8*6$, deus, dies, deva) ;f ravi*, sunu«, syu'nas su'ryas sun ; Chin., jib, yang, sun, 

 day, light ; suy, name of one of the nine heavens, shining and. glossy, a burning-glass, the 

 planet Jupiter ; tang, alight raised high ; tung, sunrise; king, lofty, bright and clear; lung, 

 lofty, conspicuous ; Dak., 85, yag, or £ag, to shine or emit rays (the Dakota, like the Chi- 

 nese, lias no r sound); agpe, day, space; iiagfag, ozaijzan, iyoyagpa, or iyofog&g, light; iyagpa, 

 to push out. 



37. Moon.— 1,2, 5,8,9, muesi; 3, moi ; 4,lubbo; 8, mohmgo ; 6, inyanga ; 9, tangua; 



10, tunga ; 11, 12, boulan ; 13, 14, 15, marama ; 11, vola ; 14, vala, hual. Cfr., Yor., mo, 

 to shine; os'ukpa, moon; (kpa, to break, to cut in two; wa, wari, to divide, to share); 

 Egyp., man, to gleam, splendor, intellect (Yor., mo, to know) ; Dak., mae'a, the red of the 

 morning, aurora; wega, broken; wi, sun, moon, month; Sans., vi, away, apart; Chin., 

 yue, to separate, moon;% me or mei, to open, to spread out; wei, light. For the roots ra, 

 la, lung, tang, yang, v. Sun. 



38. Heaven or Sky. — ll,langhits; 12,languit; 13, lani, langui, rahi, rani, rangm; 14, 

 king, langi; 15, rang, rohotang. v. Sun. 



39. Earth or Land. — 11, 12, 15, tana; 12, henna; 13, wenoua, fonoua; 13, 14, perm, 

 panua, vanua. Cfr., Yor., ta, to, to spread, to push forward; tara, gravel; Egyp., ta, the 

 world ; Dak., tag, to touch ; Chin., ta, large, extensive; ta", to touch, to build up, earth heaped 

 up ; tan, pan, fan, to extend, wide, thin, great, bank, to feci with the hand ; tang, large, to 

 extend; to, too, earth; Sans., tan, to spread, to extend; tanu«, thin; ti'ra,, a shore; dhara', earth; 



* The word amo is differently aeeented, to express the two meanings, but I think there can be little doubt of their 

 common etymology. 1 have not thought it necessary to mark the distinction between the open and close Yoruba 

 vowels. 



t "Epionarmus (470, B, 0., in Megara), taught that Zeus was nothing but the air, and other gods but names 

 of the powers of nature." Max Miiller, Lectures on the, Science of Language, p. 105. See also ibid. p. 21. 



J Do the Yor. wari, Dak. wi, Chin., yv.1, me, wet, show that these nations, like the Aryans, named the moon 

 " the measurer V M and w arc often interchanged in Chinese. See Bliiller, op. cit., p. 1G. 



