BAR

Articulation, imperfect, 181.
instances of utter inability to
distinguish between two ar-
ticulate sounds, 185.

Aryan,

or Indo-European family of
languages, the Polynesian

claimed to be the true root and
origin of the, 19.

other new theories, 19, 20.
changes caused by initial double
consonants, 207.

treble roots of the Aryans be-
fore their separation, 218.
common Aryan words begin-
ning with soft and hard
checks, 222.

examination of a few words
which form the common prop-
erty of the Aryan nations,
228.

Aspirated check letters, 159.
mode of producing, 159.
probable absence of aspirates in
the most ancient Aryan lan-
guages, 218.

aspirates in Sanskrit, Gothic,
Greek, and German, 223.
Asvins, the, of the Veda, 508, 512.

hymn to the Aśvins, 512, 513.
their later names, 514.
Athênê, the germ of the name, 521.
as the Dawn, 522.

Athenians, their prayer to Zeus for
rain, 452.

Atlas, according to the later Greek
historians, 417.

Atoms, the expression, 598.
Australian languages, number of
consonants in the, 181.

the Sanskrit name, 379.

its name of Septentriones, 382.
and of boves et temo, 382.
Beech, the word, in other Aryan dia-
lects, 232, 238, 252.
Beef-eater, origin of the name, 552.
Behistún, rock inscriptions of, 12.
Believe, to, 594.

origin of the word, 360.
Bengali, mode of forming the so-
called infinitive in, 27.
Blame, origin of the word, 286.
Blâmer, origin of the French word,
286.

Bleek, Dr., bis "Comparative Gram-
mar of the South-African
Languages," 19.

his treatment of the Phonology
of those languages, 35.
Bless, origin of the word, 548.
Bochart, his work "De Theologia
Gentili et Physiologia Christiana,"
&c., 420.

Boece, Hector, his account of the
Barnacle Goose, quoted, 561.
Bolza, Dr., on the analogy between
speech and sounds in Italian,

101.

CHE

Breathings, the hard and soft, 139.
positions of the organs of speech
in producing the various
breathings, 141.
Brim, the word, in other Aryan dia-
lects, 232.

Brisk, frisky, and fresh, common
source of the words, 284.
Bronchial tubes, 122.
Brown, on language and reason,
quoted, 79.

on the influence of words on
thought, quoted, 590.
Buddhists, their Nirvâna, or Noth-
ing, 364.

Bunsen, Baron, on the science of
Man, quoted, 16.

Burnouf, Eugène, his discovery in
the religion of the Aryans before
their schism, 541.
Bushman tongue, 19.

CHE

Checks, soft, or mediæ, 155.
nasal checks, 158.

aspirated checks, 159.
common Aryan words which
begin with soft and hard
checks, 222.

Chinese language, the, grafted on
the Annamitic, and formed
thereby irto Cochin-Chinese,
37.

a characteristic feature of liter-
ary Chinese, 37.

number of distinct sounds in
Chinese, 38.

instances of dialectic dispersion
in, 39.

polite phraseology of Chinese, 41.
no outward distinction between
a root and a word in Chinese,
94-96.

the letter r not pronounced by
the Chinese, 179.
meaning of Tien, the Chinese
name of God, 456.

- all syllables in Chinese either
open or nasal, 202.
Chordæ vocales, office of the, 129.
disease of the, producing apho-
nia, 130.

Christianity and the Greek religion,
438.

Chrysippus, his attempted accommo-
dation between philosophy and
mythology, 408.

Cicero, his remarks on the influence
of our mother-tongue, quoted,
46.
Circonstance, origin of the French
word, 290.

Clicks, the African, 168 note.
Cochin-China, language of, 37.

the modern language Chinese
grafted on the Annamitic, 37.
words forming plurals in Co-
chin-Chinese, 40.

formation of tenses, 40, 41.
Cohobation, the word, 324, 325.
Consonants, no absolute necessity for
them in language, 137.

all consonants under the cate-
gory of noises, 139.

breathings, 141–147.

trills, 149.

checks, or mutes, 151.

palatal consonants, 153.

ous languages, 180.

DAN

Consonants, liability to phonetic cor-
ruption of words beginning
with more than cne conso-
nant, 201.

entire variety of consonantal
contact only in Sanskrit, 217.
phonetic process which led to
the consonantal systems of
the Hindus, Greeks, Goths,
and Germans, 222.
Contrition, origin of the word, 360.
Copper, period of the use of, only for
weapons,armor, and tools, 246.
names for copper in various
Aryan dialects, 247.

the copper mines of Cyprus, 249.
first use of the word cuprum, 249.
Corn, the word, in other Aryan dia-
lects, 234.

Count, meaning of the title, 272.
Country, origin of the word, 291.
Court, etymology of the word, 268.
Cousin, Victor, his views versus

those of Locke on the names
of immaterial objects, 365.
his caution against using Locke's
observation on immaterial ob-
jects as an argument in favor
of a one-sided sensualistic
philosophy, 368.
Cray-fish, origin of the word, 285.
Creuzer, his "Symbolik und Mytho-
logie der alten Völker," 415.
Croesus, Gerardus, his interpretation
of Greek mythology, 421.
Cuneiform inscriptions, Grotefend's
discoveries in, 11-13.

Cuprum, first use of the word, 249.
Cuvier on Nature, quoted, 584.
Cyclopes, the, according to later
Greek historians, 417.

Cyrus, cuneiform inscriptions on the
tomb of, 11.

Czermak, Prof., his experiments on
the agency of the velum pen-
dulum in producing the vari-
ous vowel sounds, 136.
his examination of the organs
of speech of an Arab, 148.
and of the causes producing the

hard and soft check letters,156.

origin of the, 577 note.

Dawn, name of the, in the Veda, 389.
myths of the, 481.

myth of Hermes, 481.
Saramâ, the Vedic Dawn, 481 et
seq.

the riddle of the Dawn, 518.
legends told originally of the
Dawn, 520.

the goddess Athênê, 522.
the goddess Minerva, 524.
Ortygia the Dawn, 525.

names of the Dawn and of her
offspring, 527, 536.
Deaf and Dumb persons, no signs of
reason given by, except by educa-
tion, 79, 80.

Deer, the word in other Aryan dia-
lects, 231.

Demeter, the name, 536.

as the Dawn, 536.
Democritus, his theories on language,
317, 320.

Dentals, their existence in every lan-
guage, 178.

Deva, etymological meaning of, 473.
in Greek, Latin, and Lithuani-
an, 473.

Dhar, the root, its disappearance in
most Aryan dialects, 219.
Dhú, the Sanskrit root, in Greek,
Latin, Gothic, and German, 225.
Dialectic regeneration, 36.

causes of the rapid shedding of
words in nomadic dialects, 42.
Dialects of ancient Greece, researches
in, 10.

English, 10.

Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte's
collection of, 10 note.

Mr. Peacock's work, 10 note.
dialectic variation in language,
194.

Diez, value of his works in the study
of Aryan speech, 261.

Diovis, an old Italian name of Jupi-
ter, 471.

Dis, original meaning of the Latin,
264.

DIV, a form of Dyu, 472.

how represented in Greek, 472.
and in Latin, 472.
derivatives of div, 473.
Dodona, the dove of, Herodotus' ex-
planation of, 416.

temple of, song of the Pleiades
at, 458.

Doubt, origin of the word, 360.
Dravidian languages, Caldwell's re-
marks on the peculiarities of
the Dravidian syllabation, quoted,
205.

Druh, etymological meaning of the
Sanskrit word, 474.

Du, the Sanskrit root, in Greek,
Gothic, German, and English,

225.

264.

Dyaus, origin of the Sanskrit name,
392.

the bright heavenly deity of
India and Greece, 444.
meaning of Dyu in Sanskrit, 445.
passages of the Veda in which
Dyu is used as an appellative
in the sense of sky, 446.
and in the sense of day, 447.
invocations in which Dyaus
stands first, 448.

passages in which Dyu and In-
dra are mentioned together
as father and son, 449.
other passages in which Indra
is placed above Dyu, 449.
views of the synonymousness of
dyu the sky and dyu the god,
465-467.

forms of the word dyu, 469.

EARL, origin of the word, 271.
Earth, the, as understood by the
ancients, 582.

EGY

Egyptian language, ancient, no dis-
tinction in the, between noun,
verb, adjective, and particle, 95.
Elements of language, 85.

293.

English language, Prince Louis-Lu-
cien Bonaparte's collection of
dialects of, 10 note.
origin of the termination ing in
the, 24.

number of consonants in the,
181.

iustances of phonetic changes
which have taken place in the
transition from Anglo-Saxon
to modern English, 191.
Latin or French words natural-
ized in English, 191.
cause of the loss of the guttural
ch in English, 198.
German elements entering into
the English language, 282.
periods at which the Latin ele-
ments flowed into England,
285, 286.

double existence of the same
word in English, 283.
Ens in Latin and sat in Sanskrit,
identity of the two words, 361.
Entretenir, origin of the French word,
290.

Eos, as the god of the morning,
391.

366.

Etymology, the principles of, 254.
Voltaire's definition of etymol-
ogy, 251.

guessing etymology, 255.
etymological tests, 258.
change of meaning of words,
265.

origin of titles, 270-272.
different forms of the same word
in different languages, 274.
different forms taken by the
same word in the same lan-
guage, 279.

the same form taken by differ-
ent words in different lan-
guages, 298.

different words may take the
same form in one and the
same language, 303.
phonetic types, 331.
popular etymology, 548.
Euhemerus, his work, 'Iɛpà 'Ava-
γραφή, 415.

its translation by Ennius, 416.
Euhemerism, 416.
Euphony, 192, 194.
Euripides, his opinions of the Ho-
meric system of theology, 404.
Europa, meaning of the story of
Zeus and, 463.

Ever, origin of the word, 265.
Experiment, the word, as showing
that reason cannot become real
without speech, 83.

Eye, origin of the word, 300.

tation of Greek mythology, 412.

an dialects, 237.