Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages.
- James Grant of Corrimony
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![thy life, but import an invitation to come and partake of the family fare, or victuals, ‘as the fupport) of life. Ir may occur to the learned in the Greek lan- guage, that the Galic word Be is the root of the Greek noun Βιος, which fignifies dfe, and alfo /ufte- nance. It will be remarked alfo, that Bis is ufed to fignify a bow, which was the chief inftrument ufed by the primitive focieties of temperate climes in pro- curing the means of fupporting life. The Greek word Ba, which fignifies firength, is ufed by the Caledonians to denote wiéfuals*. — Thus the word * Beo fignifies alive, and Bas, death. This laft word isa .com- pound of Be, life, and As, out. The Latin word Cidus, which fignifies viétuals or food, is derived from the Galic word Cid or Caoib, which fignifies fuch a portion of meat as a man could de- vour at a mouthful. A portion or partis exprefied in Galic by the word Mir, fynonimous to the Greek word Megos, and is expreflive of -a-larger- portion than Gib+——=It may be obferved, that meat, and the aétion of eating, are, exprefled in the Greek language by the word Βρωσις, and that the verb Βρυτ]ω and Βρυχω, fignify to eat or devour. Thefe words are derived from Bru or Bro, which in Galic fignifies the belly. Bru is the moft common pronunciation, but Bro is not to be rejected ; a proof of which is furnifhed by Broiaz, which alfo fignifies belly, and in its in- H flected](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33518865_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
