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expressed by the same word. From the latter Sanskrit 
root came the Greek 7 ivoyai and 7 vvrj ; thence Saxon 
acenned , ‘born,’ cynn , ‘race,’ cwen , ‘a woman;’ our kin, 
and queen (originally the same as quean), Danish hone . 
It is curious that the Australian blacks use the word jin for 
wife. 
*5 ivu, ‘ not.’ Greek ov. Turkish , as above. 
fu, ‘father.’ Sanskrit*?, f to be:’ whence Greek cfrvco, 
Lat. fui , our word ‘ be. 1 Or perhaps, tn, ‘ to protect,’ which 
is the root in Sanskrit of the word fqTT, ‘ a father.’ 
X k'iuan. Greek rcvcov. Sanskrit ■sg^r, our hound, 
shi. Greek cn)?, our swine , sow . 
pi, ‘nose.’ Hebrew ‘nose,’ JIB, ‘mouth;’ halves pro- 
bably of the onomatopoeic ITH) 3 . 
1>u| tslii. Hebrew , ‘ teeth ’ (sing. ]$). 
^ san. Hebrew ‘hair.’ 
Here, then, are samples of a large class of similitudes in 
words between the Aryan, Turanian, Hamitic, Shemitic, and 
monosyllabic families. I repeat what I have said before, that 
a few of such similitudes might be explained consistently with 
the polygenist theory, by suggesting fortuitous coincidences or 
borrowing of words or roots ; but I contend that on the whole 
they point to a time when there was one and but one primeval 
language, from which the roots of all languages — whether of 
their vocabulary or their imflexional forms — are taken, and to 
which they may, conceivably , be ultimately traced back, though 
it is scarcely probable that man will ever be able to complete 
the work. 
What, then, was this primeval tongue ? It is not the task 
of our Institute to originate theories : our business is to show 
that Scripture — I mean the very letter of the written Word, 
as we have it, — is not untenable ; and that those who deny it 
and reject it, because of its alleged discrepancy with the 
results of science, eventually find themselves involved in 
difficulties equal to, if not greater than, those which they 
escaped when they severed the consecrated cord that bound 
the humble believer to his scientific but not less believing 
brother. Still I hope I may be pardoned if I throw out an 
attempt at a theory, or rather a hypothesis, for which, of 
course, the Institute is not responsible. 
