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mutation into T* whilst the Gondi has u (w) similarly commutable. 

 JFor the proof of these most remarkable co-incidences I refer the 

 student to the works of Phillips and Driberg, merely observing in 

 conclusion that it is but a sample of those analogies derivable from 

 the same interesting quarter which I have already made good pro- 

 gress in the development of, and which when fully exhibited will 

 go far to confirm the conviction that the Tartaric family is one and 

 indivisible from the Caucasus to the Pacific. 



The prospect of a reunion of all the Tartars suggests the consi- 

 deration of a fitting designation for the whole ; and, whatever my 

 leaning towards the term Scythianf from veneration for the father 

 of history who first introduced this mighty herd to our view, I pre- 

 fer upon the whole the more familiar appellation Tartar, 1st, because 

 it has a sense as ample as our present requirement, in which respect 

 it has no advantage over Scythian — 2nd, because it has an etymolo- 

 gical significance thoroughly indigenous and in the highest degree 

 appropriate, as well with reference to the structure of those tongues 

 by the dissection of which we have come at a knowledge of the whole 

 scope of Tartar affinities, as with regard to that characteristic idiom 

 according to which the name of a tribe is the name of our species. 

 Ta means man in a score of extant tongues ; and Ta designates nume- 

 rous extant tribes stretching from the Altai to the gulf of Siam, 

 whilst the same or equivalent names prevail throughout the Mongo- 

 lian countries and in Caucasus ;J and, lastly, the reiteration wherebj- 



* The transposableness of the particles in these tongues has been already stated, 

 and abundantly proved. With this hint look at the following wonderful sample of 

 analogous structure, t-ab, his father, in Circassian ; apa-t, his father, in Sontal. It 

 is needless almost to add that the word for father is ab in the former tongue ; apa 

 in the latter. Not one of Bopp's celebrated Arian affinities surpasses the above 

 in beauty and interest. 



f Essay on Koch, Bodo and Dhimal, Preface, pages 8 — 9, where the reader may 

 see that seven years ago I had a strong presentiment of what I now hope to de- 

 monstrate. 



% Tsha-ri, Tshe-tshe'-nsh, &c. come from the ta and sa roots for man, and are 

 seen in similar combination, being synonymes, in the Chinese and Georgian Tse 

 meaning man, whereof Tse-s, is a diminutive. The Chinese call the Tartars 

 indifferently Tha-tha and Tha-tse, and so do the Newars of Nepal, whilst Ta-i, Ta- 

 i-m6, Ta i-lung, Ta-i-nc, Ta-i-ye, names of tribes from Assam to the Ocean, are 



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