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Is the Pushto a Semitic Language ? 



[No. 4. 



U-J^ 



55 



LSJ^ 



5) 



^3 » 

 jr (bald) „ 



o^ (or 





ub* 



55 



^ij 



55 



Cr* 



55 



The following also are submitted to the inspection of the learned 

 reader, though I have not met with their Zend equivalents ; literary 

 material is not abundant on the Afghan frontier. 

 Sans, purven (-dyus) Pers. cJ>J Pushto tyrf (parun) yesterday. 



^jk^. (khw&j) sweet. 



^j**- (Mwale)* sweat. 



^j (zane) chin. 



lj£ (kalawa) shave. 



^j+^jZ (kausai) ringlets. 



j) (la;' or lag) little. 



^jJ (lwash) milk thou. 



Xj^j) (lombara) fox. 



w*>j£* (tsarman) hide. 



j^L* (mashe) midge. 



jjer-o (mach) fly. 



L5 ^° (muchai) bee. 



Xj*> (ma/a) mouse. 



\jj (zhara) cry. 



Hj (wa) weave. 



i^y^ (stan) needle. 



&**jjj (wriidza) brow. 



^s^jj (wrije).J rice. 



j1j (war) Fr. fois. 



LSj** (ngin) he swallows. 



Jjjj (po-wul) to feed. 



c*J (p a y) milk - 

 jA) (ter) swift. 

 ijya. (chaud) split. 

 Cg^*- (tsire) torn. 



svadu 



sveda 



hanu 



khalvata 



keca (hair) 



laghu (light) 



duh 



lomaca 



eharman 



makshi-ka 



rmisha 



krid, krug 



ve 



sevani 



bhru 



vrihi 



vara 



gri 



pa 



pay-as 



tux 



chhid 



chir-na 





as dztmb, thumb, for German dumm, damn; or chambre, homlro, hambre for 

 camera, kumero, fame (s). 



* Z> into Z. 



f Vullers 1 derivation from O) iSy** " latus feriens" does seem to be marvel- 

 lous nonsense, when the Latin suo, Gk. avw (in Kacravw) and the Sanskrit root siv 

 (Westergaard, Radd. Ling. Sans. p. 261) are considered. 



X Lassen conjectured that the old Persian ought to have been brizi; the 

 Pushto seems to add much. force to his inference. 



