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.

gram-

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.

WIT

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,

48.

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

note.

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,

199.

Witsen, Nicholas, the Dutch travel-
ler, his collection of words, 136

note.