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STUffOLOOY OV TUB IN DO-PA OIFtC tSLAfifDS. 



herur 



Tigre 



bir 



Amharic 



biri 



Galla 



biroa 



Agao 





IJ 



ber 







Oafat 







biro 





bira 



Wornita 



Jron bar^at 



Hebrew 



bir 



Saumall 



tihila 



Galla 



hirta 



Danak. 





Gonga 



bfire/M& 



Gafat 





ft 



beroa 



Affaa 



ba 



jyHfTvutiaB 













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 A«HU 



war/ta 









warA 



Tigre 



barubera 



Bbangalla 



Iron beresh 



Georgian 





Latin 





Kamscbatkan 





Koriak 



T\m dose cojtnection between words for " white", silver" 

 and ** iron" raiaes the question, whether the iSoutb Dravirian term 

 for " iron*' may not oome under the same category. The fullr^ 

 farm knnHnbon appears to be compound, and if bon be the root 

 for " wbitij" and " silver" (com p. the ibrme bol Tuluva, pun Kol. 

 *' white'*) kartm is the Dravirian word for black", i. e, the eom- 

 poniul i^i ** black-silver" or , " black-niela!," The Karnataka 

 kabma ha* the elemler form of the word for white and silver, wiih 



