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An Essay on the Relationship of 



[Jan. 



(great) preserved in Greek, in the form of fxei^v, and in Latin, in the 

 superlative maximus ;— ail = aXXos, alius ;— akarah* (a ploughed 

 field), in German acker, a^pos, ager ;-— ku\i (a cow), in German kuta, 

 and (what is remarkable) the plural of it, in the Thuringian, and high 

 (or mountainous) Saxon provincial dialect, is Kiihe* (in Sanscrit, 

 Tamul and Persian, ko) ; or, pronounced wur, (fire), uro, comburo, (the 

 Armenian pronunciation of or, viz. wur or vur, explains how the letter 

 b could come into the Latin compound) ; from vur comes the Dutch vuur, 

 the uu, or long u being sounded in Dutch as the French ii, the similarity 

 with Trvp in Greek, is the more striking; feuer in German is 

 merely another modification of the same sound ; hence, the English 

 burn, = brennen in German. Not to mention, that the Armenian or 

 and ur will strike every one as being identic with the Hebrew ^S)$ 

 (ur, fire) and (or, light)— asth (a star)= asrrjp, aster;— mi in Ar- 

 menian means 1st, one = fit a ; 2d, lest, — firj ;—g'm = <yvvr)', — nyu 

 a woman, always in the signification of nub ere, or nupta ; (the de- 

 rivation of nubere from nubes always appeared to me far-fetched and 

 unnatural). Also in Chinese, I am told, the same root means a woman. 

 Sinear (Shinar)=&n assemblage of men ; kar (a stone) ^ep/nadiov • 

 mart, means 1. a. msua (— mas, maris) 2. a battle, 3. the god Mars, 

 (Martis). 



3. Comparison of Conjugations. 



Armenian. Hungarian. Bohemian. Latin. Greek. Brettany. 



Luanam 



irok, irom 



wolam 



luanas 



irsz, irod 



wolash 



luanae 



ir, irya 



wola 



luanamk 



irunk, iryunk 



wolame 



luanak 



irtok, iryatok 



wolate 



luanan 



irnak, iryak 



wolagi J 







wolau \ 





Iwrite,! write it 



I call 



lavo 







do 





kanann 



das 





kanez 



dat 



Tifia 



kan 



damns 



ii/uLaofie'S 



kanomp 



datis 



Tl/JLCLTe 



kanit 



dant 



rtjaaovTC 



kahont 







cano 



* It is undeniable that the Greek termination of os corresponds to the Sancrit oh, and 

 also that the sound of the Greek % and of the Scotch ch is often originated from the 

 single aspirate sound of h, or substituted for it ; hence the propriety of using the h with 

 some diacritical mark, to express the Greek % or Scotch ch, seems to be evident. — 

 In cases like the present, where it is important to inform the reader of the exact pro- 

 nunciation of foreign words, it is evident that diacritical marks are necessary, as h with 

 two or three dots underneath, is doubtless the most suitable, to intimate the near relation- 

 ship of the sounds of h and X or the Scotch ch. 



