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An Essay on the Relationship of 



[Jan. 



5. — Also the Bohemian, Greek and Latin declensions are very 

 analogous to the Armenian ; e. g. 



Armenian. 



Bohemian. 



Armenian. 



Latin. 



Greek. Bohemian. 



Sing. 



(Thing) 



(door) 



(Seed) 

















cat) 



N. 



Pan 



brana 



sermn 



semen 



GTreppa kotye" 



G. 



pani 



brany 



serman 



seminis 



CTrepparos kotyete 



D. 



'ipan 



brany e 



'isermn 



semini 



CTreppan kotyeti 



Acc. 



z pan 



branu 



z sermn 



semen 



<77repfia kotye* 



Abl. 



'ipaniv 





'isermene 



semine 





Local, 'ipani u brany £ 



Circum- \ • 

 ferential S Z 



Instr. 'ipani s branau 

 Plural. 



N. 



Pank 



brany 



sermank semina 



G. 



panitz 



bran 



sermanz seminum 



D. 



'ipans 



branam 



"isermans seminibus 



Acc* 



z pans 



brany 



z sermans semina 0 



Abl. 



'ipanivk 





'isermanpk seminibus 



Loc. 



'ipanitz 



u branah 



'isermantz 



Circ- 



-z panitz 





z sermantz 



Instr. 'ipans 



s bran ami 





lserman 



z serman 



i serman 



,u kotyeti 

 ,s kotyatem 



a7repjHQ7a kotyata 

 airepjuLaTw vk o ty at 



u kotiateh 



j-s kotiatami 



\ s kotiaty 



It seems scarcely credible that nations, so remote from each other, 

 and living in so very different climates and countries, should have 

 preserved so great an analogy in their dialects. Even if the similarity 

 of some inflexions of the Armenian and Latin verbs were granted to be 

 merely accidental, it is impossible to fancy that these declensions, also, 

 are thus similar to each other by mere accident. The nations who 

 speak, or spoke, these languages must be branches of one and the same 

 tribe. 



The v in the Armenian ablative, changed into y> in the plural, by its 

 position between two other consonants (in 'isermanpk) shows clearly 

 that the ancient Greek (pi (in orpaTo^i, xecpaXncfti, GTr)6ec(fit), and the 

 Latin bus (also in deabus), are identical inflexions, as well as of 

 quite similar fcrm in Sanscrit ; and grammarians need tell us no longer, 

 with their wonted gravity and confidence, that <pi is a " particula en- 

 cliiica," unless they are prepared to maintain, that bus in Latin, and v 

 sxidpk, are aLo enclitical 



