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6. With the Kheta compare the Chatti referred to by Tacitus, and the 
XerraloL of Strabo. What is the origin of the name Hit on the Euphrates ? 
[The Chatti, or Catti, are said to have taken their name from “the old 
German word cat or cad, ‘ war ’ ” : see Smith’s Class. Die. 
The Kheta seem to owe their name to the word Kheth, an inclosure (fenced 
or fortified), comp, the Egyptian Khctam ; and Khatem, which is the ring 
for the finger, in Heb. DHin. The well-known site, Sarbut el Khadem, in 
the Sinaitic peninsula, owes its name (says Dr. Ebers) to the old Egyptian 
fortress (Khetam) : Durch Gosen. 574. The archaic Hebrew, Phoenician, 
and Moabite form of the letter n (Kheth) bears witness to its origin in the 
ground-plan of a square fortress. 
Mr. Gladstone identifies the Kheta with the Keteioi of the Odyssey {Horn. 
Synchr. 175), but I cannot answer for the Khettaioi of Strabo. — H. G. T.] 
7. You remark (p. 11) that the names in Scripture may be Hebraised. I 
suppose they have been, from Adam downwards, unless Hebrew may be 
taken as a fair representative of the one primaeval language, an idea which 
few would accept. 
[I cannot at all agree with this sweeping supposition, for I think that the 
foregoing paper itself supplies many names alien to Hebrew which have been 
little altered ; in some cases barely transliterated. — H. G. T.] 
8. (p. 14). You refer to Sheshak. Compare the theory of Brugsch as to 
the Assyrian origin of the name Shishak. 
9. Your remarks on animal names are very modest and cautious. Could 
you not suggest a learned inquiry as to a totem system amongst ourselves ? 
Think of the hundreds of animal names that we possess, such as Pigg, Hogg, 
Wolf, Lyon, Deer, Sparrow, Bird, Nightingale, Partridge, Dove, Drake, 
Wildgoose, Fish, Sprat, Pike, Carp, Herring, Mackrell, &c. &c. What a 
mine for the investigator ! 
But, seriously, there is a very interesting question connected with animal 
names, and having an important bearing on the history of language. Did 
animals give names to attributes, or attributes to animals ? We read in 
Gen. ii. 19 that God “ brought the animals to Adam to see what he would 
call them, and whatsoever Adam called any living creature that was the 
name thereof.” Turned into plain English, what does this mean ? is it that 
there is a correlation between sight and sound, and that our first parent, by 
a quickened instinct, was prompted to utter a distinct articulate sound 
answering to the special features or peculiarities of each object presented to 
his eye 1 or is it that each object suggested some marked attribute and was 
named after it ? Thus the question arises : Whence did Adam derive the 
names of the attributes ? I am inclined to think the first alternative the 
true one — that animals and other sensible objects received names from Adam, 
and that each name thus instinctively given originated the verbal, adjectival, 
and other forms. It would be interesting to test this theory by an examina- 
tion of the Accadian and other primaeval languages. Pardon the hastiness 
of these annotations, and accept my thanks for your paper, and especially 
for your suggestive remarks on the name Mary. 
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