Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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    the eye-brow, (German, braue ;) nasa, the nose; karu, the hand, (Gr. cheir ;) genu, the knee, (Lat. genu;) ped, the foot, (Lat. pes, pedis;) hrti, the heart ; jecur, the liver, (Lat. jecur ;) stara, a. star ; gela, cold, (Lat. gelu, ice ;) aghni, fire, (Lat. ignis ;) dhara, the earth, (Lat. terra, Gaelic, tir ;) arrivi, a river; nau, a ship, (Gr. naus, Lat. navis;) ghau, a cow; sarpam, a serpent. The inferences from these verbal coincidences were confirmed in a striking manner when Bopp and others investigated the grammatical structure of this family of languages. Dr. Wiseman pro- nounces that the great philologist just named, “ by a minute and sagacious analysis of the Sanskrit verb, compared with the conjugational system of the other members of this family, left no doubt of their intimate and positive affinity.” It was now discovered that the peculiar terminations or in- flections by which persons are expressed throughout the verbs of nearly the whole of these languages, have their foundations in pronouns; the pronoun was simply placed at the end, and thus became an inflection. ‘ By an analysis of the Sanskrit pro-— nouns, the elements of those existing in all the other languages were cleared of their anomalies ; the verb substantive, which in Latin is composed
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