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are nouns and verbs/' and, accordingly, he derives otTto from the 
Hebrew, a^, a stem, Trsp* from the Arabic per«, eminence, virsp from 
the Hebrew aber, sky, or the Persian oher, a cloud : the insepar- 
able prepositions had been traced to nouns and verbs long before. 
Degrees of comparison are not expressed by adjectives or 
adverbs, in either language : but, for he is richer than he, the 
Accras would say, " eh phay leh ne;" the Fantees, " aw tchen 
adee," he passes him (in) things : neither language has an adjective 
answering to rich or wealthy, but " ne," and " adee/' in both, 
corsespond exactly in meaning and use with the res of the Latins : 
the superlative would be expressed by " he passes ad." The antient 
idiom of comparison, antecedent to the general use of inflections or 
adverbs, was probably similar, judging from the following, and 
many other sentences in the Greek, " Ucc^' exvrov f/,7i^evoc lirnvihtov 
^rye^ro, he thought no body fitter than himself;" ■uyXsiovog ^o^^g urapcx, 
Mua-^v Ti^lurai, Heb. xiii. he was counted of more glory, or more 
glorious than Moses/' Here -motpa, so frequently expressing com- 
parison, being derived from the verb inpua, to pass, is identical with 
the Accra and Fantee expression. 
I observed before that the Accra and Fantee have no adjective 
answering to rich, they are also deficient in many others, which 
they supply by a second substantive in the same manner. This 
idiom is found in the Greek, " To <r£j^a tij? raTrmua-iug vifjcm, our 
humiliated body, the body of our humiliation /' AipBo-etg uTrcvXeiag, 
destructive heresies, &c. Sec/' and it is said to be both a Hebrew 
and Celtic idiom; primeval languages, and the latter, I presume, as 
rude as those we are investigating. 
In the Accra, the personal pronouns are 
I - - me 
thou - boh 
, he, she, it Iheh 
