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

 a well known practice among tbe Afghan tbieves to use tbis very 

 means for letting tbeir accomplices clown walls and windows. 



The Latin tussis (cougb) bas as yet not been traced ; Pott sug- 

 gests, though but timidly, that it migbt be connected witb tundo ; 

 the Pusbto for "cougb" is tushe. The Greek evSo), "I sleep," "lie 

 down" appears to be as yet without an autbentic genealogy ; tbe 

 Pusbto 8¿jl (íido) is " asleep, lying down ;" avkr¡, the court-yard, 

 cattle-yard, etc. is a difficult word ; tbe Pushto ^Jy=- (gliole) precisely 

 answers it. Pushto tsj^ (kañre) " a stone" is difficult to affiliate 

 eitber in tbe Sanskrit or Persian, but it seems to have two equally 

 lonely brothers in the Gselic carn " a cairn," and the Greek Kpavaós 

 " stony." 



Tbe English ant and the Persian mor jy, of the same signification, 

 seem wide apart, yet by tbe 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 aniaitó according to Grimm ; 

 from tbis the Germán a-meise ; the Pusbto is ¿— -^ (¡neje), also 

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

 ¡xvp¡x7]K — whose first syllable agrees not onty 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 ¡xvp • from which 

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

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

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

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

 instance the Germán ente (Lat. anat) and tbe English dralee meet in 

 the Oíd High Germán anetrefcho ; the Irish gall (swan) and the 

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

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

 to that of fxvp/xrjK. 



The Greek wóv and the English egg — are, as is well known, closely 

 related : wóv, Latin ovum, Irish ugli, Saxon oeg, English egg ; the cbange 

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



* It appears there in the dialectic variation aapyáur] ; tiie change of t into <r 

 being like Ionic aviaos l'or Dovic avaros, <ró, ai, <rr¡¡xepov for Doric rv, t4, r-fi/xepov, 

 vavaía = Attic uavría, etc. 



