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Sanscrit language; and he has shown throughout his work that precision ai 
critical accuracy which is the great pride of classical scholarship. Bni h 
has also, in the analysis of that richest, best understood, and thriving family 
languages, employed terms and established principles which are moreor la 
applicable to all the languages of the Japhetic, Semitic, luid Chamitictnbt, 
and have already been applied and followed out by Lepiaius, Meyer, w 
others. His terminology of anlauti i/ihiUt uwfauA of 
weah d^tension aud conjugation, and similar phrases, have been 
decided use in the remotest parts of ethnological inquiry. I may he dlo« 
to quote, os instances, Lepsius’ and luy own Egyptian, ami Dr. 
Celtic and Cynuic researches, Schott’s Mongolian and Rwens (1^ 
Grammar. But above all, his discovery of the law of traMpositxon 
(Lautverschiebung) prevalent in the Sanscrit, Greek, Roman, and W*W 
words, as compared with each other, is one of the most fertile and 
phaut discoveries of philological ethnology. According to this table a 
scale of the labials,— ... 
the Greek P corresponds with the Gothic F and the Old German B or ( 
B „ P ■' ^ 
>» P » »» D » » ^ 
In the .scale of the dentals,— « 
the Greek T corresponds with the Gothic TH and the Old Gernian 
», D „ „ T » « - 
„ TH „ „ D » » 
lu the scale of the gutturals,— 
the Greek KcorrespondswiththeGotlnc|Qj^g|j’|andtheOIdGerrDaiiG 
G t „ ri 
» » 
fX (Greek) \ 
" lIULatm) / >■ 
By this simple table wc find a most regular, and, therefore, 
an accidental analogy in those languages; we are enabled to estabi^s 
etymologies, and, what is still more important, to discard innumera op®” 
present, and future false ones*. 
K 
G 
give the following words as spocinieas after Grimm and Bopp. R 
unes are tised to show the suc'ccssion of sounds in the same language, sna the 
ing organic sounds of the two others are placed one under the other, verticau., 
table takes tViA rr.Un...{n» .1_ 
111. GottiiB^ 
2 . * 
. VI - O'- — ' «iiv umi 
table takes the following shape:_ 
1. lAhtala. 
Greek .... 
Gothic.... 
Old High German 
Sanskrit. 
1.—1. Pada8(foot) 
Panchan (five) 
PQnia (full) 
Pitrl (father) 
Upori (over) 
I-—2. vrtshu (cow) 
...... (hemp) 
hflla(young) 
I.—3. Blianj (to break) 
Hhuj (to enjoy) 
Bhratrt (brother) 
Bhrl (to bear) 
Rhrfi (brow) 
Kapfila (he^) 
3. 
F 
B 
P 
1 . 2 . 
P B 
F P 
B(r) F 
Greek. 
VrOVS, TToWff 
TTcvre 
wXeov 
TTor^p 
uwfp 
Ktivva^is 
66'pCV 
o^pvs 
Ks^aXt) 
II. Deatsl*. 
1. 2. 3. 
T D Th 
Th T 
D Z 
Latin. 
pes, pedis 
quinque 
pleuus 
pater 
super 
Tacca 
cannabis 
buUus 
frangere 
frui, fructus 
frater 
fero 
D 
T 
Gctbie. 
fetus 
fimf 
fulls 
fadrein 
ufar 
brikan 
brukon 
brethar 
baira 
K G 
caput 
haubitb 
GtnnSB. 
TUOZ- 
rinf- 
voL 
vatsr. 
ubsr. 
fersn- 
hao^ 
foie- 
precbw. 
pricben- 
pruodsr. 
pin). 
praws. 
boupih 
