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milar Striking idem ity witk Imno-Itiiiian varieties. The Ai]<)ti-a1iari 

 wadi, wan, New Calodoniun marij mmlf like the other Asonesian 

 forms of the root, belontr to the most aicliaic era of Asoneeian glo^- 

 Bology, yet the form is the same as llie Kashmiri wad (Zemt wed), 

 Tlie Peel River bura corresponds with the JiengaU mur, Dhimal 

 ptiring, Todava and Himluvi mud, [so mnn Hiiiil.j umun Loho 

 of New Guinea], to which the Malagasy-Polynesian vulu, ftiln, 

 bulu "hair" is abo allied. The original is the Scythic mttri 

 Korea, murii Tung-, mm Turk., bui Ugrian. The fonns in a are 

 also Scythic, — Ugriiin wari, waras, awa &c. The medial u and 

 iinal i of the Scythic forms is preserved in the Dhimal paring 

 (Korea muri) only, and tlie i in the North A astral inn and New 

 Caledonian. Tfie form mud, mnn, mande (Ifind., Toil., Kurg,) is 

 also current in Samoiede as a term for " beard mudu/, munucAe, 

 mandu. In TiinguBian it is applied to the " month" amnn. The 

 forms in t, matha, mala, are allied to the Sanskrit mastaka, which 

 ap|)ears to be com posed of two Scrthie roots, man (com p. mas 

 "hair" Armenian, mas/, hair "Kashmiri, bas, bash, pus &c. 

 "head'' Turkish, bus "hair" Fassoglo, iwusa ** harr " Fin, uru 

 *Miair" Tungns.), and takai ("head" Teiiiaeian, tuka"liair" 

 Fin &c.) 



An allied Tamil and Toda word for hair, mir, mayir, is pro- 

 bably a more archaic form. It is a Caucasian variety, and belongs 

 to a dialect that shows frequent affinities with Dravirian, the Andi. 

 In the Scythic languages the form war is found for " head" and 

 '*hair". Tlie slender forma bir, pil^ wil, pin are current for 

 "lip," "tooth", "ear" and "foot." In Caucasian ber, were, 

 occurs for " face," " eye/* " beard," pil, prri for " momh," and 

 mir, mer, mar for " nose". 



The preceding term is so common along the whole glossarial 

 band of Irania, North India and Asonesia, that it appears to be 

 connected with the Scythic or proto-Scythic movements which 

 gave their special Scythic character to the DravEro- Australian 

 and Indo-European formations. The Tamil and Toda variety 

 probably marks an older Caucaso-Dravirian current, of which this 

 remnant was left in the south of the Indian Peninsula, 



The Tamil term for " head," senni, is probably of equal anti- 

 quity. It is Ugrian, Celtic, Yeniseian, &c. Anolher variety of the 



