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ETHNOLOGY OF THE INDO-PACJPIC ISLA^fDS. 



in all tlic Caucasian languages. In the InLlo-European family it 

 appears in the Latin hoa^ which in ihe oblique cases discards the 

 postfixed definidve and restores the root bov or bou of the mono- 

 syllabic group (boa Ananij woa Lm, Biirm. ba, pha Tib.) 

 In Semitic the Scythic term appears to enter into words for the 

 *'^buffaIoe," gam-bus, ja-raus. la Africa it is rare. The Gonga 

 miza, mia &e, Kosah maas "cow" appear to be Ugriao, Other 

 TJgrian terms for cow " are common in Africa. (Sec Appendix 

 to Sec. 6). As a term for buffalo it oc^^urs in Milchanang mosb, 

 moesli, and somewhat further modified in the Hiiidi bhains, 

 Himalayo-UItraiudiun mcshi^ mesye, moisho &c. Tite original 

 of all these terms appears to be the Ugrian mes, mis, raus, which 

 in its turn, is probably the monosyllabic mo, bo, ba, pa, &c with 

 a consonantal or final or a defiuiiive postfix " father," " female, '* 

 "male". The ultimate root is one of the eommon primary 

 terms for " mother." 



The Dravirian terras cannot be considered as archaic, or prima- 

 ry. The root has evidently passed through the Ugriun glossary. 

 The Matayalara pni/a, Kurgi pa^w may be exceptions, 



2. The Telugu and Karuataka, aww, and anc. Tamil a appeal's 

 to be a form of the primitive root. It is identical with terms for 

 "mother" Drav. ava, apa, Manip. avu, a(th« &.c. (See also 

 " Father" b). Tlie Egyptian ah, ha, aua, Emgheilesie haui are 

 modifications of the sibilant root for *'cow," and distinct from the 

 Dravirian a. 



3. The Karnataka aka/w is Caucasian, aka, ata (Leigi). The 

 dental form of Lesgian is current in Pashai, ada, " bulF'. In the 

 form ta it is a Dravirian term for " mother," taj/i, ta/i, also with 

 a different postfix " father/' tmdei. The Caucasian form is Tur- 

 kish (atft, aga), Ugrian and Chukchi (ata) " father," The same 

 form is JJravirian with a feminine application, "aunt," "mother- 

 in-law " &c so also Sanskrit lata " mother," Nias eta kc 4c. 



4. The Karnataka dano, danaw, Tuda iMwm contains one of 

 the varieties of the same root as that of the preceding term.* 



The root in both these terms is Scythic andScythico-Iranian and 

 the application of this particular term to the " cow " is Caucasian. 



• Dr St^-Tenson refers tt to the Snu'krit dhen " a jnildi-cow," but ft seema more 

 probaWe Uiat tiie term ia ai cliaic and tmraly a variety of the root in ta, kft. The 

 Banskrit term I may remarka h Ugrian, tehen Magyar. 



