his "Heimskringla," 193. his "Skalda," 193. Solomon's fleet of Tharshish, 202. Song-yun, the Chinese pilgrim to India, his travels, 149. Sound, small number of names formed by the imitation of, 365. Spec, offshoots of the root, 257. Species, origin of the Latin, 260. Squirrel, origin of the name, 365. Stewart, Dugald, his opinion on the
origin of language, 41.
his doubts as to the age and authenticity of Sanskrit, 147. his view of the affinity of Greek and Sanskrit, 164.
terror caused by the name, 297. the Golden Horde, 298. Tataric language, 297.
sometimes used in the same sense as Turanian, 297. Tavastian dialect of Finnic, 318. Terminations, grammatical, Horne
Tooke's remarks on, quoted. 251. Terminology, grammatical of the Greeks and Hindus, coincidences between the, 115.
Testament, the New, translated into Persian, 151.
Old, number of words in the, 267.
Teutonic class of languages, 177.
the English language, a branch of, 80.
Tharshish, Solomon's fleet of, 202. Themistocles, his acquaintance with the Persian language, 93. Thommerel, M., on the propor- tion Saxon words bear to Nor- man in the English language, 84. Thracians, ancient authors on the, 126 note.
Thunder, origin of the word, 364. Tiberius Gracchus, his knowledge of Greek, 103.
Tiberius the Emperor, and the marians, anecdote of, 47. Tibetan language, how adjectives are formed in the, 113 note. Timur, Mongolian empire of, 299. Tooke, Horne, on grammatical ter- minations, quoted, 251.
his answer to the interjectional theory of roots, 367. Torgod Mongols, the, 300. Trade first encouraged the profession of interpreters, 93.
Turanian family of languages, 43.
origin of term Turanian, 238. Turanian races, 243.
Turanian names mentioned by Greek writers, 243.
component parts of Turanian speech, 272.
Tungusic idioms, new phase of grammatical life of the, 64.
Uralic languages, 315.
Uran'hat tribes, on the Chulym, 304. Urdu-zeban, the proper name of Hindustání, 316.
Usbeks, history of the, 302.
VACH, the goddess of speech, her verses quoted from the Rig-Veda, 88 note.
Varro, de Re Rust, on Mago's Car- thaginian agricultural work, quoted, 95 note.
his work on the Latin language, 109.
- appointed by Cæsar librarian to the Greek and Latin library in Rome, 110.
Vasco da Gama, takes a missionary to Calicut, 154. Vedas, the, 116.
differences between the dialect of the Vedas and later San- skrit, 116.
objections of the Brahmans to allow the Vedas to be trans- lated, 152.
story of Feizi, 152.
Verbs, formation of the terminations of, in the Aryan dialects, 222. modern formations, 222. Very and much, distinction between,
Vibhakti, in Sanskrit grammar, 116. Voguls, the, 320.
Votiakes, idiom of the, 319.
habitat of the, 320. Vyakarana, Sanskrit name for gram- mar, 116.
WALLACHIAN language, the, 195
Wends, language of the, 201. Whewell, Dr., on the science of lan- guage, 38 note.
Wilkins, Mr., on the affinity between Sanskrit and Greek, 160. Windic, or Slavonic languages, 199. divisions and subdivisions of,
Witsen, Nicholas, the Dutch travel- ler, his collection of words, 136
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