X62 aTBKaLOQT of THB Iff DO-PACif to ISLASTDt. 



if now more common than the primary one to " silver/' — Chin«e 

 het, thiat, thi, Anara hafc, Arabic hadid, (all close to the Egyptian 

 ftud Galla hathi, ht^ haia ), Sanakiit ayaa, Xiatin ms, German eiBm-, 

 Batch ijzer, Samoiede yeae, Korea soi, suy, Tiheto-TIltraindian 

 chya, sei, ai, chur, eur &e. Ac.; Aaoneaiaa sua, isu, hao; Tun^aian 

 leUo^ sellOj zhilla 



The Draviriati terms for " silver*' and " iron'* appear to he at 

 least e(jaally archaic with the Semitico- African, and even with the 

 Ugriaii or proto-Scythic. That for " iron/' while Ugrian in the 

 ideologic baais and in the separate roota, is native aa a compound . 

 With moat of the preceding worda it claittis for the Draviriaii- 

 speaking race a civiiiaation of eijual antiquity with the Semitico- 

 African and Iranian, and one which in its earlier form waa probably 

 brought from Middle Asia with the langmige itself. 



Of the Bravirian terms for gold, auvarnam Telug. ia Sanskrit 

 (Ugrian ahiorbno Wolga,* — the ahorter form ahor, aor, son, sir, aer 

 &c. is much more common in Ugrian, Iranian &c. Euekarian uma^ 

 Latin mmm <&c) Chinna Karnataka ia an eiample of the shorter 

 form of the root, Silong ain, lb ia connected more cloaely with 

 the Sanakrit and Pali hiraniaj hirna, Paahtn aira-zar, Brahui zar^ 

 Ugi'iau sir»ff, &e, than with the Indian aona. The Tamil pun, 

 Maiayalam punnu, ia the root for "wliite", " silver'* again, in the 

 Kol form. In Semitico-African and Malagaay-Asoneaiaai the 

 root is also applied to " gold " aa well aa " silver To the Semi- 

 tioo-African and Dravirian terms previously given may now bo 

 added the common ludoQesiau term for "gold" vula««, folaart 

 hulapa, bulawv?, bulau, bulawa, all similar to Indonesian forma of 

 the same root applied to "moon", ** silver **, *' white." 



Aa the moat simple and methodical mode of exhibiting the 

 abort glossary and itg affimities as a whole, I have thrown the 

 numerals and the 60 miscellaneoua words into two comparative 

 Tocabiilariesit giving under each word a separate place to every 



• The root 8or, «t>l, «on flte, ia applied ia Scytliteo-IraQlfln vocabukrlw to tho 

 •*siiri"'aai wdlaj* to " gold". 



t 3ee Apijeadix to Cbap. V (A and B). I bare ventured to inHicate the poatflK 

 by Italicifliug it in moat casea, but tt is prob.ible that I have BometSraed conrounrled 

 a particle with the root and more frequently marited as a poatflx wiiat \a really k 

 portloaofadiAsjUiibic or polyiyllalik roat. To dtatinguijb tba rooU accaraUly 



