I860.] Is the Pusldo a Semitic Language ? 337 



(2 Cor. xi. 35*) in describing his escape from Damascus, whilst it is 

 a well known practice among the Afghan thieves to use this very- 

 means for letting their accomplices down walls and windows. 



The Latin tussis (cough) has as yet not been traced ; Pott sug- 

 gests, though but timidly, that it might be connected with tundo ; 

 the Pushto for "cough" is tushe. The Greek ev8<±>, "I sleep," "lie 

 down" appears to be as yet without an authentic genealogy ; the 

 Pushto iij\ (lido) is " asleep, lying down ;" avX-r), the court-yard, 

 cattle-yard, etc. is a difficult word ; the Pushto ^Jy (ghole) precisely 

 answers it. Pushto {SJ*^ (kanre) " a stone" is difficult to affiliate 

 either in the Sanskrit or Persian, but it seems to have two equally 

 lonely brothers in the Gaelic cam " a cairn," and the Greek Kpavaos 

 " stony." 



The English ant and the Persian mor j_yo, of the same signification, 

 seem wide apart, yet by the aid of the Pushto we are able to point 

 out a very probable connection between them ; ant is for amt, con- 

 tracted from emmet, from the Gothic amaito according to Grimm ; 

 from this the German a-meise ; the Pushto is t—j^e (meje), also 

 pronounced mege, which connects with the second syllable of the Greek 

 fxvpfXTjK — whose first syllable agrees not only with the Persian mor, 

 but with thirteen other languages (cited by Grimm in the Deut. 

 Worterbuch) whose word for ant is similar to mor or fjuvp ; from which 

 the conclusion may be drawn that the Greek is nearest the original 

 word whatever that was, and that the descendants have divided the 

 inheritance, some taking the first, others taking the second syllable. 

 Such a division of inheritance is by no means unexampled ; for 

 instance the German ente (Lat. anat) and the English drake meet in 

 the Old High German anetreklio ; the Irish gall (swan) and the 

 Slavic labud (of the same signification), philologists find united in 

 the Sanskrit jdlapdd, though neither of these cases is quite parallel 

 to that of [MvpfirjK. 



The Greek a>6V and the English egg — are, as is well known, closely 

 related : wov, Latin ovum, Irish ugh, Saxon oeg, English egg ; the change 

 of v into g is one of such frequent occurrence as hardly to need an 



* It appears there in the dialectic variation <rapydi/7] ; the change of t into <r 

 being like Ionic avyjcros for Doric &vi)tos, <tv, ere, crrtfiepov for Doric tv, re, ryiiepov, 

 vavcria = Attic vavria, etc. 



