Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland].

  • John Cleland
Date:
1768
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Credit: Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t .] SECOND ADVERTISEMENT Concerning the Primitive Language. i Journal des Sfavansy February 1768; cfHE ideasy not entirely jujl, which hdve been conceived of the propofed difcovery, create, hi order to rediify them, a necejfty of explaining in what it is that this difcovery confifts. ^hework confjis of four parts. ^ PART FIRST. Difcovery of the origin of the fuhftantive verb four ce and principle of all the other verbs in the human language. This verb, formative of all the others, dnd the fame in all the languages of the univerfe, is found as fimple as it is entire in that of the Celts, Gomerites, or Britons. PART the SECOND. MohofJlabic roots of . 'the Celtic or Britifp language, for the entire difcovery of the primitive language, and of true ethnologies. One thoufand five hundred ?nonofiUables, each with its proper ftgnification, being the matter and tJot eleinents of words in all the known languages. PART the THIRt). The primitive language fill erdfilng in the elder branch of the children of Japhet. This language given to Adam ; by him tranfmltted U' Noah, tbroujb one only intermediary man ; fro7n Noah
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