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but ft£Vd5, contracted, is mens, which, in the Latin language, imports the 

 very same thing. In the Gothic, and all the northern dialects of Europe, 

 man imports the very same idea as in our own tongue ; the English, indeed, 

 having descended from the same quarter. In Bengalee and Hindoostanee, 

 it is manshu ; in Malayan, manizu ; in Japanese, manio ; in Atooi, and 

 the Sandwich islands generally, tane, tahato, or tangi / while manawe itn- 

 ports the mind or spirit ; and in New Guinea, or Papuan, it is sonaman, 

 a compound evidently produced from man. In this utmost extremity, 

 this Ultima Thule of the southern world, I will just observe also, in passing, 

 that we meet with the terms Sytan for Satan, or the Source of Evil ; and 

 Wdth (Germ. Goth), for God. 



But it may, 'perhaps, be observed, that in all the southern dialects of 

 Europe, the French, Itahan, Spanish, and Portuguese, we meet with no 

 such term as man ; nor in the Latin, from which all these are derived, in 

 which last language the term for man is homo. Yet nothing is easier 

 than to prove, that even homo itself, the source of all these secondary 

 terms, is derived from the same common root. This is clear from its ad- 

 jective, which is hu-man-us : while every schoolboy knows that man, or 

 men, though not in the classical nominative case of the substantive, is in- 

 cluded in every inflection below the nominative case : as ho-min-is, ho- 

 min-i, ho-mji-ern, ho-7wm-e ; and it was formerly included in the nomina- 

 tive itself, which was ho-men ; whence, nothing is clearer than that the 

 particle ^ois redundant, and did not originally belong to the word. And 

 were any additional argument necessary, I might advert to the well-known 

 fact, that this redundant particle is absolutely omitted in the negation of 

 homo, which is not ne-homo, but nemo, and was at first ne-men ; and which, 

 like homo, or homen, runs, as every one knows, ne-mim-\s, ne-wim-i, &.C. 

 It is easy, however, to prove this redundancy of the ho, by showing the 

 quarter from which it was derived. The old Latin term was ho-min, ho- 

 min-is ; which every one must perceive is literally the obsolete Greek fcev, 

 with the article o added to it ; o f^ev or ho-men, emphatically the man. The 

 ho is also omitted in the feminine of ho?no, which is/e-min-a, and was 

 at first feo-min-a, fvom feo, to produce ; literally, the producer or bringer 

 forth of man, or min. Nothing, as it appears to me, is clearer than this, 

 though the etymologists have hitherto sought in vain for the origin offemi- 

 na. From feomina, or, without the termination, feomin, we have de- 

 rived our own and the coniinon Saxon term, woman; the f, and or w, 

 being cognate, or convertible letters in all languages ; of which we have a 

 familiar instance in the words vater, and father, which in German and Eng- 

 lish, mean precisely the same thing. 



But this subject would require a large volume instead of occupying the 

 close of a single lecture. It is, however, as you will find, when we come 

 to apply it, of great importance; and I must yet therefore trouble you 

 with another example or two. 



Youth and young are as capable of as extensive a research, and are 

 as common to all languages, barbarous and civilized, as the word man. 

 I will only at present remark that we meet with it in Hebrew, where it 

 is nJV {yuna) ; in Persia and Palavi, or ancient Persian, where it is^'wam; 

 in Sanscrit, where it is yauvan ; in Greek, vm {yion), from vie? or vtavoi ; 

 in Latin, where we find it juvenis ; in Gothic and German, where it is 

 jung; in Spanish, Jovcw ; in Itahan, giovan; in French, jeune ; and, as I 

 have already observed, in our own dialect, young. 



The word regent, in like manner is, and ever has been, in equal use 



