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in the Persian and European lan- 
guages, although the Greek has only 
2200 roots and the Latin 2400. Of 
these 900 affinities 
339 are found in the Greek 
319 in Latin 
265 in Persian 
262 in German 
251 in English 
527 in Greek or Latin 
181 in both German and English 
31 in all the 5 languages. 
This is something positive and 
numerical; but unfortunately not 
definite, and partly erroneous, as 
will be proved presently for the 
English. Kennedy denies affinities 
between the Celtic and Sanscrit, but 
the very words he has offered as ex- 
amples (only 100) offer many evident 
affinities. His opinion that the Hin- 
dus and Egyptians came from the 
Babylonians is very improbable. It 
was from the high tableland of Cen- 
tral Asia that all the old nations 
came. 
The 251 English affinities maybe 
seen in Kennedy, as well as the 339 
Latin, which are mostly found now 
also in English through the words 
derived from the Latin. These two 
united would be 590 or more alrea- 
dy than the 566 separate meanings 
of the Sanscrit roots. But Kennedy 
has by no means exhausted the San- 
scrit etymologies of the English. 
Although I have no English Sanscrit 
dictionary at hand, yet I have many 
Sanscrit vocabularies, where l find 
many words omitted by Kennedy. 
And what is not found in the San- 
scrit itself is found in its Eastern 
children the modern languages of 
Hindostan. 
Among my vocabularies, the most 
important is one made by myself of 
the principal .words of the old San- 
scrit met with and explained in the 
laws of Menu translated by Jones. 
In these old and often obsolete words 
are found the most striking affinities 
of which I here give the greater part. 
English. 
Old Sanscrit 
Written. 
Spoken. 
of Menu. 
Mother 
Mother 
Mara. 
Mind 
Maind 
Men. 
Mankind 
Mehnkaind Manavah. 
Era 
Ira 
Antara. 
Hour 
Hauer 
Hora. 
Virtuous 
Vaertius 
Verta. 
Antique 
Antic 
Arti. 
Beetle 
Bitl 
Blatta. 
Penny 
Peni 
Pana. 
Gas 
Gas 
Akasa. 
Father 
Father 
Vasus. 
Play 
Pie 
Way a. 
Malice (sin] 
) Malis 
Mala. 
Patriarch 
Patriark 
Patri. 
Middle 
Midi 
Medhya. 
Teacher 
Ticher 
Acharya. 
Bos (master) Bos 
Bhos. 
Before 
Bifor 
Purva. 
Wind 
Vuind 
Pavana. 
Deity 
Deiti 
Daitva. 
Mouth 
Mauth 
Muc’ha. 
Eyes 
Aiz 
Eshas. 
Right 
Rait 
Rita. 
Phantom 
Fantom 
Vantasa. 
Wood . 
Vud 
Venu. 
Me, mine 
Mi, maihn Man. 
Animate 
Animet 
Mahat. 
Spirit 
Spirit 
Eshetra. 
Being 28 derivated words out of 
84 of this old vocabulary. 33 per ct. 
Another very singular vocabulary 
I have extracted from the Transac- 
tions of the Literary Society of Bom- 
bay, and Erskine’s Account of the 
Ancient Mahabad Religion of Balk 
from the book Desatir. Some words 
are given there of the language of 
the Mahabad empire, the primitive 
If an, which appears to be a very" 
early dialect of the Sanscrit and 
Zend. Out of 30 words 12 have 
analogies to the English, equal to 40 
per cent. 
English. 
Mahabad 
Written, 
Spoken. 
of Iran. 
Father 
Father 
Filer 
End 
End 
Antan. 
Course 
Kors 
Kur (time) 
Nigh 
Nay 
Unim. 
