■ ^ ) 
From this Signification of Wine in particular, the Word Ca^ 
houah has been extended to all forts of Drink ^ and therefore this 
Word is not ufed either for the Tree or Fruit, but only for the 
Drink made of it. 
The Fruit is called Brnn^ and the Tree, the Bum Tree. 
Monf Galand goes on to remark fome Mifiakes of Baneflus ; 
and then adds. That if that great ProfefTor could be miftaken in 
his own Language, it is but juft to excufe Monf Du Fours Friend, 
who fays that Cahoueh is the Arahick Word for the Coffee Fruity 
which is rather a Turhijh Pronunciation than Arahiany fince there 
is no e in their Alphabet. Moreover, that Gentleman has con- 
founded the Term Caoua’y with that of Cahouahj tho’ they are * 
both written and pronounced very differently. 
If this Account of the Original and true Signification of the 
Word Cahouah be juft, as there is no Ground to doubt of either, N 
confidering both the extraordinary Skill of that Author in the 
Oriental Languages, and the long Stay he j^ade in the Eaftj we 
need be at no Lofs what Judgment to make of all the Eaftern 
Names that have been given to the Coffee Drink ; they may all 
be eafily derived from the Arahick y Cahouah^ and the Variety that 
is to be found in them is owing either to the real Changes they 
have undergone in the Mouths of the different Eaftern Nations, 
Perjiansy Egyptians y Turks y ^c. or to the Miftakes of Travellers, 
moft of whom being ignorant of thefe Languages, have not al- 
ways equally well expreffed, in Writing, the Sounds by which they 
heard this Liquor fignihed in the different Countries of the Eaft. 
Neither are fuch Miftakes to be wondred at, confidering how 
common they are even among the different Nations of Europe at 
this Day; whole Languages have a nearer Relation to one ano- 
ther, than the Eaftern Languages have to any of them. Let a 
French Man, for inftance, hear forty Englijh Words diftindly pro- 
nounced one after another, feveral times over, it is forty to one 
at leaft, that he does not write two of them right. There are 
Examples enough of this in all the French Writings, where there 
is occafion to mention any Engli/h Words*, and we have one in 
the foregoing Lift. Monf De JufJieu tells us very gravely, that 
both the Englifi and Dutch call this Liquor Coffe : with a fingle 6 
accented ; only for this Reafbn, becaufe he has heard the Word 
Coffee pronounced nearly the fame way as a French Man would do, 
^had it been fpelt after his manner. 
From Monf Galand' s Etymology we learn likewife, that all the 
Words by which the Fruit it felf has been fignified, that have 
any Refemblance to Cahouah^ which make the third Clafs of the 
Eaftern 
