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neta ; mint (Engl.), minda (tribute, Chald.) ; from the same verb come 

 fivjvrf — fiava (Doric) = moon — mahn (Nether Saxon), = mond 

 (German) ; — mensis = month = monat (German) and jmjv, fieU, jxeivos. 



To sow f 'Sevi ;— semen = syme (Bohemian), = saame (Germ.) 

 saen (Germ 3 satum '■> saat (Ger.)=seed=zaat (Dutch)=sadeh ?(Pers.) 

 sara ( Hebr ) / sero — s e vmn (= seed, Armenian). 



v (nreiptv • — hiaaireipw = dispergo ; spargo ; — OTrcpfia. 



24. — Thus we find the simplest roots in the Greek, Teutonic or 

 Latin languages, and their derivatives in the Shemitic dialects, or in 

 Sanscrit, whilst these two latter tribes have lost the root ; so that we 

 must conclude, first, that the Shemitic and Japhethitic tribes stood 

 pretty long in close connexion, and secondly, that after the various 

 tribes had dispersed over the earth, they continued to form new words 

 by adding, and also by prefixing, to their common roots, letters and 

 syllables, and this often so analogously that we find sometimes the 

 very same form in Sanscrit and in Icelandic, whilst the intermediate 

 tribes modified and augmented that same root in some other way. The 

 Greek language has preserved to us the greatest number of the most 

 simple and natural (apparently) primitive roots ; and Sanscrit scholars 

 will be able to say, whether many similar, most simple and primitive 

 roots (not imaginary ones), are actually found in ancient compositions 

 as self-existent parts of that language. The following genealogies of 

 words may suffice to explain my meaning : 



> ^afievj i—rfapppos = gener ; br&utigam, (bride* 

 yaw, <ye<o V groom,) German. 

 Trj, the wife of lyanami (Sanscrit) tytvofjbat • <yevo<$ = genus == 

 Ovpavos and "Skihd (Engl.) ;— r^evetov = kinn (G.) = chin, 

 mother of all. ^ubi barba nascitur quse protestatem gignendi 

 V. indicat ; — kovvo<s. 



gigno ; — genitus = (contracted into kind) a child 

 (in Germ.) i/rj^areos II. 3 185. — ^v-rjaios, gna- 

 tus, cet. 



Flo, i. e. } (atma. & 



( I blow and breathed anp ; avefjcos ; animus ; anima, anma, 

 \ > t Tamul 



„ 1 V7repmjs Iliad A 297— rjvefioeis Iliad M 130. 



aw '. °'< Zarj* II. M 157. ; a^all. 3 254. 



Spir ° Jclamo ; aviv II. A 461.2. ; avrij A. 466., avrctv M 161. 

 (siccoviz.by M 3 



blowing. 



C chSwp ;—v()piv<s = sudor = swet=schweiss, 



\ veros, M 133; 3 (Germ .) wodu (Bohemian) = water = 

 viv pluo J f wasser (Germ.) 



ihyems == y^ei/Ltivv, X eL l Jia 

 C humor, humidus ; — uvidus, udus ; — v^pos cet. 



