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COW, should include the horse in the B&mc term when thtsy first 

 •aw it. But we ha?e moJerti instances of races which knew only 

 the dog auJ hog, applying one of their names for these animali 

 to the coWt and a comparison of vocabuTatriea shows that in 

 archaic times a similar course was fj'aqiiently followed. In fact 

 BOTne word;; have been so much pressed inlo service to meet such 

 emergencies, that if alt tlieir applications were included in one 

 vocabulary the generic meaning of quadruped " might be given 

 to them. The name for the dog has been applied to the cat, the 

 hog, the cow, the horse kc. Many of these new applications 

 become valuable guides in tracing the spread of particular roota 

 and varieiies.* 



Another source of difficulty and error in comparing the names 

 of domesticated animals in different families of language is that 

 these names are liable to change repeateilly, long after the first 

 acquisition of tho species. Such terms^ and particularly those for 

 Ihe hor^e, are apt to be spread with the breed into foreign coun- 

 tries. In many groups of Idnguages, owing to this and other 

 causes,! there are various terms for the horse, having distinct 

 ranges of foreign affinities. Thus in English we have hone, 

 Semitic, (also African and ultimately Sevthig), mire 8cythic (and 

 African), colt probably a Celto^Scythic term (fforwi/ddW ehh, 

 kunds Saraoiede, &c.), the Irano-Celtic equu$y eachf la the oquino 

 terms derived from Latin, foal Ugrian &c These terms had 

 probably separate origine, and belong to different eras of English 

 and of Teutonic or of Indo-European history. 



CAT. 



1. The most common term, pusei, pusi, puchcha &c, is N. 

 Indian and Indonesian. It is also African under the form mus, 

 mosa^ 1&C. and English puss. The Pashtu slender form pishik, 

 pishee, Bi-ahui pishi, Mitcbanang pishi, found also in Ultraindian 

 piehiA (Kapwi), and Rotuma pitsa, is Caucasian piehiA (Chari), 

 Semitic bis, African ^opisa^ fisojia and Ostiakmtsa*, (also mate^a). 

 It is probable that the Brabui^ Pashtu, Milchanang and Kapwi 



* Some inostratiang of this ha.ve b«en givfis Iq the glosearia! Appnendtx to the 

 SetniHeo-Arncan 8iib-«etioii, 



t The chkf of tbete h the redundancy of termi ta denote vaHetteB of ramj!L&r 

 objedts in which most Tocabulariis appear t-J luxarlate to c«nain it«ff*a of th«tr 

 gTowtb. 



