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I'ies, the secoml, wliicli is only found in Tamil (anc), ia probably 

 of Sanskntic derivation, nattom Tarn,, netram Sanak. But as 

 llie root occurs wiihout tlie r in N,E. Asian and African languages 

 it may possibly lip arch am in Bravinan, It belongs to the proto- 

 Scylhic basis of Sanskrit (com p. Caticas. na^ nDe^ la, ala, Kams- 

 cbat, lela, e\cd. ehthf natu*», Koi iak ile?, kla(, eli/a, lila^iw, Hind* 

 train, Arab aayii^Nubiutj nj£ot,enef!-tX', wa'inka,Gallaitahft,Danakil 

 coli, Malagaiy-Asories. inty "see/' Malay libat *'9ee," Binuaniliat 

 <*eye." Tbe N. W. Australian ira, Madge« lu n, Torres StJr, il, of 

 ir-kop Ei nb, i!-knp Mm ray I. (kap being a separate root, dana- 

 kap "eye" Port Lihou, it-kab tempka" Erub) with tbe Nilotic 

 il, ilau Saam., ila-tua Cxidlii, aire Tigre, ili-kumali Shangallab, ara 

 Fazoglo, yc-l iigau, Io-IcIg Bishiiri, ilo Falasbfi, are still mora 

 faitlii^il to the archaic form preserved in N. E. Asia, and, like a 

 large proportion of the vocables of the Nilotic province and 

 Africa generally on one side and of the Draviro-Asjonesian on the 

 other, are referable to tbe earlier eras of the Scyihic or proto- 

 Scylhic raovemenfs on the southern regions of the Old World, 

 The same root is common as a term for " head.'' 



The prevalent Australian term mil^ mlr| mi, me, ma, may be 

 connected wilb tbe Tsbeto-Ultraindian niik, mit, mid, uini, mi, 

 (Takpa melon j^), but the Caucasian ber, beer, ber-?7i, ber-^?i*A, 

 Ler-^, bora-/frt, suggests a different line of connGciion. llie Austra- 

 lian meharai; mibare, mabara appear either to be reduplications 

 or to postfix the same root in one of ita other and more preva* 

 lent appVtcationa " beatlj " "face. " Comp. g.i, ka, ka-bara, bura, 

 balang, war!, iwadi, &c, " head"* So in Milie baratn. New Cale- 

 donia balu &c. New Hebrides baa, bail &c. The same root is 

 very common as a term for "hair'* [See Head, Hair]. In. 

 Menado (Celebea) it is uaoil for " eye, " waron, and in Tasmania 

 we find ^^veiiii, ?*tt-bera, nihhm, ^e-pena, e^-pina, rft.a-meri-Aa, na- 

 murn-A, polsMo-oIii. Torres St. has poni eye-ball," and in some 

 compounda " eye 



In N» E. Australia and Torres St. dana, daan, dala, dana-kah 

 occur as words for *^ eye." The only other Asonesian example of a 

 similar term which I have remarked is the Loyalty I. (Lifu) tala- 

 raek " face, " ala-mek eye, " in which mek is the common term 

 or "eye, *' *' face, " already referred to. Comp. the liiuua tarn-' 



