OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE. 



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150. Toto, ToTo, TuTU; to, to reach, to be sufficient, to lay up; tu, to pour out, to gush. 



151. Tu. — Cfr. Chin., too; Sans., ftiv, to spit. 



152. Wo, to be hollow, to enter into, to abide in a house. Cfr. Ger., wohncn. 



153. W5WS, to be lukewarm. Cfr. Goth., Ger., D., Eng., warm. 



154. Wura; wu, to please; ra, to buy? v. Ortt, § 132. 



155. Ye, to be pleased; yg, to turn out of place, change ; yi, to turn, revolve. Cfr. Chin., 

 yiti, to be pleased, change, to revolve; ya, to laugh. 



156. Ye, to rejoice. Cfr. Chin., yu, joy ; Lat., jucundus ; Eng., joy. 



157. Yu,), to conceive, to be pregnant ; ye, to lay eggs, to live; Cfr. Chin., jTli, to enter, to 

 receive, to put within ; jin, pregnant; Sans., dji'v, to live; djan, to produce; yuvan, young; 

 Lat., juvcnis ; Eng., young, yean. 



158. On account of considerations which I may have accidentally overlooked, I am 

 willing to make a much greater allowance than is justified by our mathematical investiga- 

 tion, for the probability that many of the foregoing resemblances will finally prove to be 

 destitute of any etymological value, that many others will have only an indirect and re- 

 mote significance, and that perhaps very few will prove to be fraught with any general and 

 permanent interest. But even if a single one shall be found to indicate a resemblance which 

 cannot be satisfactorily explained as accidental or onomatopoetic, between two languages 

 that arc so widely separated as the Yoruba and Dakota, or "the Yoruba and Chinese, my 

 labor will neither have been in vain, nor will its usefulness be confined to the gratification 

 of an idle and futile curiosity, or to the author's personal satisfaction from a pleasant occu- 

 pation for many studious hours. The wide field of interesting, successful, and profitable 

 research, that was opened by Home Tooke, encourages me to hope that an unlimited ex- 

 tension of even his primitive and imperfect methods of analysis into regions where only 

 such primitive methods are as yet available, would sow the seed for a future bountiful 

 philological harvest; a harvest that would help, in combination with the discovery of Mon- 

 gol skulls in the Tinniere, and the manifold evidences of repeated waves of Asiatico-Euro- 

 pcan migration, to bring us back to the full realization and enjoyment of that feeling of 

 universal brotherhood, which accompanied the catholic faith of our fathers,* that God 

 "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." 



* Is not the foundation of that faith greatly strengthened by even a single instance of such resemblance as is 

 to bo found in the Indian " Manitou" = Eg. ma nter = G. mang taou, M. 9945 = L. magn-us deu-s = Gr. ixiy-a^ 

 0e6-s — S. mah-a dev-a '! 



