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would perhaps furnish strong evidence in favor of radical verbal analysis. The ideas of 

 height and depth arc so nearly allied, that both arc expressed, in soma languages, by the 

 same word, and columba, or colum(en)-ba, "the column-sitter," might be naturally asso- 

 ciated with xoXo/tpSf, " to go from a column," to leap, to dive. 



59. Ati, or Aw. — A, thai which; di or do (jUm) % to bind j ti, to tie, to bind, and. Cfr. 

 Lat., et, ad; Eg., at, to build; ati, a lintel; Eng , at. Ti also signifies to support, and igi, 

 wood, Malic. Cfr. Er., tige* 



GO. Auro, Obo, or Owuro. — A, formative, and vvn, to please ; awu, that 'which pleases, 

 or o, it, that, and ro, to turn from a course or position, to bend or break at the edge, to gush 

 out; ru, to rise, spring up, break out. "The pleasant break" of day. The ideas of red- 

 ness and brilliancy are naturally associated with the dawn, and traces of this association 

 may be found in Yor., roki-roki, bright///; roro, with a fine red color; re, red; oro, wealth, 

 and war*, gold. Cfr. Eg., am, to glorify; auu, splendor; ra, sun; auru, a bean (Yor., 

 nwmlze, red beans ; dzo, to eat) ; Sans., ra'dj, rutf, to shine; ra.dj, to dye, to color ; racta, rohita, 

 red j aruna«> dawn; (jr., tpuffpdt, /'>/»%»; Lat., ruber, roseus, radius, aurum; Chin., tsaou, morn- 

 ing. 



61. Aware.— A, formative; wa, where? to seek, to share ; ri, to see, to find. Cfr. A. 8., 

 warian ; It., guardare ; Sans., vr, to select. 



62. Aye.— Space, opportunity, time, alive; Ayida, change, cycle of time; Lai, Lai- 

 Lai, ever, forever, oldncss. A, formative, ye, to lire; yi, to revolve, to move. Cfr. Sans., 

 ayuf, vaya\ age; avyaya, eternal. Gr., ,M V) ad, Lat., awum, eetas, eeternus; Goth., aivs; 

 Chin., laon, old. 



Wedgewood says, in discussing the two English meanings of aye, "The passage from 

 the notion of continuance, endurance, to that of asseveration, may be exemplified by the use 

 of the G.je,ja ; j G und je, for ever and ever; vonje her, from all time ; wer hat esje gesehen, 

 who has over seen it? Das ist je wahr, that is certainly true ; es ist je nicht recht, it is 

 certainly not right. In the same way the Italian gia; non gia, certainly not. From this 

 use of the word to imply the unbroken and universal application of a proposition, it be- 

 came adopted to stand by itself as an affirmative answer, equivalent to certainly, even so, 

 just so. In like manner the Lat., etiam [et-jam] had the force of certainly, yes indeed, 



yes In yes, we have the remains of an affix, se or si, which in A. S. was added to 



the negative, giving nese, no, as well as jeee, yes." 



A difference similar to that between German je nndja, is observable in Yor. ye, to live, 



Marsh (under At, p. 54), speaking of the frequent synonymous use in Icelandic, of a, at, and i, as nearly 

 equivalent to an in the OH 8axon of the Ileliand, and on in many of the Anglo-Saxon writers, suspects that a 

 may be probably another form of at. In Yoruba we find all the vowels used as demonstrative roots, and (hey 

 may very easily and naturally have been employed to denote relative position. 



