DIA

Dialects, French, 59.
Modern Greek, 58.
Friesian, 59.
English, 60.

the feeders rather than the
channels of a literary lan-
guage, 60, 70.

Grimm on the origin of dialects
in general, 60.

difficulty in tracing the history
of dialects, 61.
American dialects, 63.
Burmese, 63.

of the Ostiakes, 63.
Mongolian, 64.

Southern Africa, 64.
class dialects, 66.

unbounded resources of dialects,
71.

dialectical growth beyond the
control of individuals, 74.
Dictionary, Comparative, of Cath-
erine the Great of Russia, 143.
Did, origin of, as a preterite, 233.
Diez, Professor, his "Comparative
Grammar of the Six Romance
Dialects," 196.

Dionysius Thrax, the author of the
first practical Greek grammar, 100.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the
Pelasgi, 125 note.
Discussion, etymology of, 52.
Dorpat dialect of Esthonian, 318.
Du, origin of the French, 74.
Dual, the, first recognized by Zeno-
dotus, 99.

Dumaresq, Rev. Daniel, his "Com-
parative Vocabulary of Eastern
Languages," 143.

Duret, Claude, his work on lan-
guage, 132 note.
Dutch language, work of Goropius
written to prove that it was
the language spoken in Para-
dise, 135.

age of Dutch, 178.

EARL, origin of the title, 226.
Earth, guess of Philolaus as to its
motion round the sun, 29.
Eddas, the two, 191.

the name Edda, 194 note.
Egypt, number of words in the
ancient vocabulary of, 266.

EST

Egyptian language, family to which
it is referable, 282.

Elder, origin of the word, 226.
Elements, constituent, of language,
250.

English language, changes in the
since the translation of the
Bible in 1611, 46.

richness of the vocabulary of
the dialects of, 60.

real sources of the English lan-
guage, 69.

Prince L. Bonaparte's collection
of English dialects, 70.
the English language Teutonic,
80.

full of words derived from the
most distant sources, 84.
proportion of Saxon to Norman
words, 84.

tests proving the Teutonic or-
igin of the English language,

85.

ETH

Ethiopic, or Abyssinian, origin of
the, 281.

Eudemos, on the Aryan race, 241.
Euhemerus, of Messene, his neolo-
gian work translated into Latin,
by Ennius, 105.

Eulalia, Song of, age of the, 196.
Euripides, first translated into Latin,
by Ennius. 105.

Ewald, on the relation of the Tura-
nian to the Aryan languages, 338.
Ezour-Veda, the, 156 note.
Ezra, Chaldee fragments in the Book
of, 276.

FABIUS PICTOR, his history of

Rome in Greek, 104.
Fa-hian, the Chinese pilgrim to In-
dia, his travels, 149.
Families of languages, tests for re-
ducing the principal dialects of
Europe and Asia to certain, 172.
Fatum, original meaning of the
name, 21.

Feeble, origin of the word, 123.
Feizi and the Brahman, story of, 152.
Feu, origin of the French word, 123.
Finnic class of languages, 315.

branches of Finnic, 316.

the "Kalewala," the " "Iliad "
of the Finns, 318.

tribes, original seat of the,
315.

their language and literature,
317.

national feeling lately arisen,

Gâthâs, or songs of Zoroaster, 209.
Gebelin, Court de, his • Monde
Primitif," 140.

compared with Hervas, 140.
Gees language, 281.
Genitive case, the term used in In-
dia, 111.

terminations of the genitive in
most cases, identical with the
derivative suffixes by which
substantives are changed into
adjectives, 112.

mode of forming the genitive
in Chinese, 118 note.
formation of genitives in Latin,

220.

Geometry, origin of the word, 15.
German language, history of the,

179.

Gipsies, language of the, 211.
Glass, painted, before and since the
Reformation, 20.

Gordon, Captain, on the dialects of
Burmese, 63.

Goropius, his work written to prove
that Dutch was the language
spoken in Paradise, 135.
Gospel, origin of the word, 122.
Gothic, a modern language, 122.

similarity between Gothic and
Latin, 127.

GOT

Gothic, class of languages to which
Gothic belongs, 189.

number of roots in it, 265

note.

Goths, the, and Bishop Ulfilas, 187.
Grammar, the criterion of relation-
ship in almost all languages,
85.

English grammar unmistakably
of Teutonic origin, 85.

no trace of grammar in ancient
Chinese, 86.

early achievements of the Brah-
mans in grammar, 88.
and the Greeks, 89.
origin of grammar, 90.

was

causes of the earnestness with
which Greek grammar
taken up at Rome, 108.
the Hindú science of grammar,
116.

origin and history of Sanskrit
grammar, 116.

origin of grammatical forms,
120.

historical evidence, 121.
collateral evidence, 122.
genealogical classification, 124.
comparative value of grammar
in the classification of lan-
guages, 170.

66

comparative grammar, 214.
Bopp's Comparative Gram-
mar," 214.

origin of grammatical forms,
215.

mode of tracing back the gram-
matical framework of the
Aryan languages to original
independent words, 231-234.
result of Bopp's "Comparative
Grammar," 234.
Aryan grammar, 234.
Turkish grammar, 308.
-Turkic grammar, 309.
Grammatici, the, at Rome, 103.
Greek language, the, studied and

cultivated by the barbarians,
Berosus, Menander, and Ma-
netho, 94, 95.

critical study of ancient Greek
at Alexandria, 97.

the first practical Greek gram-
mar, 100.

generally spoken at Rome,
101.

genitives in Greek, 117.

the principle of classification
never applied to speech by
the Greeks, 124.

Greeks and Barbarians, 125.
Plato's notion of the origin of
the Greek language, 126.
similarity between Greek and
Sanskrit, 142.

affinity between Sanskrit and
Greek, 159.

formation of the dative in
Greek, 221.

the future in Greek, 230.
number of forms each verb in
Greek yields, if conjugated
through all its voices, tenses,
&c., 272 note.

modern, number of the dialects
of, 58.

Greeks, their speculations on lan-
guages, 89.

the Grammarians, 90.

reasons why the ancient Greeks
never thought of learning a
foreign language, 92.

first encouragement given by
trade to interpreters, 93.
imaginary travels of Greek
philosophers, 94 note.

the Greek use of the term Bar-
barian, 127.

Gregory of Nyssa, St., his defence
of St. Basil, 40 note.
Grimm, on the origin of dialects in
general, quoted, 60.

on the idiom of nomads, quoted,
71.

his "Teutonic Grammar," 167.
Growth of language, 47, 66.

examination of the idea that
man can change or improve
language, 48.

causes of the growth of lan-
guage, 50.

Guichard, Estienne, his work on lan-
guage, 132 note.

Guebres. See Parsis.

"Heljand," the, of the Low Ger-
mans, 178.

Hellenic branch of the Indo-Euro-
pean family of languages, 198.
Herat, origin of the name, 247.
Hermippus, his translation of the
works of Zoroaster into Greek,
96.

Herodotus, his travels, 94.

on the Pelasgi, 125 note.
Hervas, his reduction of the multi-
tude of American dialects to
eleven families, 63.
his list of works published dur-
ing the 16th century, on the
science of language, 131 note.
account of him and of his
labors, 139.

compared with Gebelin, 140.
his discovery of the Malay and
Polynesian family of speech,

141.

- Urdu-zeban, the proper name
of Hindústání, 316.
Hiouen-thsang, the Chinese pilgrim
his travels into India, 149.
Hiram, fleet of, 202.

History and language, connection
between, 76.

Hliod, or quida, of Norway, 193.
Saemund's collection of, 193.
Hoei-seng, the Chinese pilgrim to
India, his travels, 149.
Homer, critical study of, at Alex-
andria, 97.

influence of the critical study

of, on the development of
grammatical terminology, 98.
Horace, on the changes Latin had
undergone in his time, 67.
Hors, origin of the French word,
123.

House, name for in Sanskrit, and

other Aryan languages, 236, and

note.

Humanity, the word not to be found
in Plato or Aristotle, 128.
Humboldt, Alex. von, on the limits
of exact knowledge, quoted, 29.
Humboldt, William von, his patron-
age of Comparative Philology,
167.

Hungarians, ancestors of the, 320.
language of the, 320, 321.

its affinity to the Ugro-Finnic
dialects, 321.

Huron Indians, rapid changes in the
dialects of the, 62.
Hyades, origin of the word, 17.

IBN-WAHSHIYYAH, the Chaldean,
his Arabic translation of "the
Nabatean Agriculture," 279.
account of him and his works,
279 note.

Iceland, foundation of an aristocratic
republic in, 192.

- intellectual and literary activity
of the people of, 192.