1858.] Professor Wilson's Sanskrit Diet. 303 



We will illustrate our meaning by a single example, and one which 

 we have not gone far to seek. In common Sanskrit there are some 

 thirty current words for ' earth,' ten for ' man,' four for ' master' or 

 'lord,' and six verbal suffixes for 'holder,' 'protector,' or ' en- 

 joyer.'* Now, in our own limited reading we have, with only a 

 few exceptions, met with a majority of the words for ' master' 

 and suffixes for ' holder' or ' enjoyer' annexed to each of the words 

 for ' earth ;' and so of the synonymes for ' man,' followed by the 

 synonymes for 'lord:' the result being always the same, the equi- 

 valent of ' king.' And, if any one of those three hundred and 

 forty allowable regal composites may claim to be represented in a 

 lexicon, why may not all ? On the principle with which Dr. Grold- 

 stiicker has set out, we are to have all, in process of time ; on the 

 condition, possibly, that, in the course of his studies, he obtains 

 proof of their having actually been used. The same remark applies 

 to the words for ' sun,' ' moon," ' Brahman,' &c. &c. Three lines of 

 explanation in the preface would economize many times three pages 

 of quite gratuitous symbols. Our fear of seeing the new edition of 

 Professor Wilson's dictionary overloaded with superfluities has only 

 too good ground, if we may augur from the sample before us. Out 

 of the twenty articles which make up the first page — and it is not 

 a full page — there are six which, in our judgment, have no right 

 there: ^?fffas^, ^TO^T^, ^W*T5T, ^n^X, ^W€lft*, ^35JT*T ; 

 and so onward everywhere. The particular specimens just given 

 were, we are aware, in Dr. Groldstucker's original : but, even though 

 he may not have been permitted to strike them out, yet we suppose 

 he was under no compulsion to add, indefinitely, new ones of the 

 same stamp. Hundreds of words beginning with the negative 



two or three occasions, but by the consenting use of many, appear in constant 

 alliance, being in this their recognised juxta-position to all intents and purposes 

 a single word, they may then claim their admission of right." On some Defi- 

 ciencies in our English Dictionaries , p. 50. Why not exclude, as a rule, all that 

 we do not naturally write without a hyphen ? 



* We might have gone very much further. There are, in post-vaidika Sanskrit, 

 upwards of sixty words for 'earth.' See Professor Williams's English and San* 

 skrit Dictionary. 



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