Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

To the public at large--to the vast mass of your fellow-creatures around you--to the multitudinous body of human beings that sink under illness, or suffer from pain--to the whol...

In respect to the former, I think a case can be made out for continuing the _earliest_ occupancy of the populations represented by the Liefs of Courland, and the Rahwas of Eston...

There are two stages in Language. Through these two stages all Languages, sooner or later, make their way; some sooner than others, but all sooner or later. Of this the Latin la...

Now, no German and no Slavonic dialects give us either the meaning of the name Decebalus or any name like it. It stands alone in _European_ history. Where does it appear? In the...

Now comes the notice of a text which always commands the attention of the ethnological philologue, when he is engaged upon the Angle period of our island's history. It refers to...

Upon the whole, you may be satisfied with the reflex action of your professional on your general education--that is, if you take a practical and not an ideal standard. It will d...

It is clear that such forms, when submitted to arrangement and classification, will not come out in any definite and wellmarked groups, like the groups that constitute what is c...

Now this word _cateia_ may be a provincialism from the neighbourhood of Sarraste. It may also (amongst other things) be a true Teutonic word. From what follows it will appear th...

The four islands of Sealand, Laaland, Moen, and Falster formed the ancient _Vithesleth_. This division is of considerable import; since the true country of _Dan_, the eponymus o...

In respect to the cæsura of the Greek tragic senarius, the rules, as laid down by Porson in the Supplement to his Preface to the Hecuba, and as recognised, more or less, by the...

In the first stage of speech, there are no inflections at all, separate words serving instead of them:--just as if, instead of saying _fathers_, we said _father many_, or _fathe...

The limits of the Russian possessions in America, or of the geographical area which we are considering, are not very definitely determined: at least, the line of demarcation is,...

Minor changes to punctuation or formatting have been made without comment. Where "ditto" was used in lists and tables, these have been replaced with explicit repeat of the word...

Similar to this are the phrases _vi se os igjen_, we see us (each other) again, in Danish, and _wir sehen uns wieder_, in German. Examples from the M. H. G. are given in the D....

One of the mechanical inconveniences arising from the use of the signs of quantity is this--when a long syllable is accented, two signs fall upon it. To remedy this, the work be...

_b._ The latter alternative isolates the _Jazyges_, and adds to the difficulties created by their ethnological position, under the supposition that they are the only Slavonians...

As early as the Augustan age the substantive _Seres_ appears by the side of the adjective _Sericus_. In Virgil, Horace and Ovid the words may be found and from this time downwar...

_scalp_ mithash matake. _tongue_ nathun vetunno. _tooth_ veathtah veisike. _beard_ vasesanon meatsa. _hand_ mahchetun maharts. _blood_ bahe mahe. _sinew_ anita antikah. _heart_...

III. For New Guinea, and the islands Waigioo, and Guebé, I have found only ten short vocabularies, and these only for the north-western districts. One of these, the Guebé, of th...

In all sentences containing the statement of a reciprocal or mutual action there are in reality two assertions, viz. the assertion that A _strikes_ (or _loves_) B, and the asser...

_Sing._ _Plural._ _Present_, 1. qus-_in_ qus-_am_. 2. qus-_is_ qus-_ut`_ 3. qus-_i_ qus-_inc`_. _Imperfect_, 1. qus-_ga_-_k`o_-t-_on_ qus-_ga_-_k`o_-t-_am_ 2. qus-_ga_-_k`o_-t-_...

man homo yúant atshánggo. woman mulier pintkhlkaiu pummaike. father _pater_ píntet sima. mother _mater_ penín sinni. son filius wái tawakhai. daughter filia wái tshitapinna. hea...

The value of these two divisions is, of course, uncertain; and, in the present state of our knowledge, it would be premature to define it. Equally uncertain is the value of the...

Of these, the Choktah, which Adelung calls the Mobilian, is the only one for which the Mithridates itself supplies, or could supply, specimens; the other three being unrepresent...

_man_ çune mailik mailik. _woman_ kele kele kule. _child_ ---- maidumonai ---- _daughter_ ---- eti ---- _head_ tçutçúl tsol tçultçul. _hair_ oi ono oi. _ear_ onó bono orro. _eye...

According to the only work which I have examined at first-hand, the _Nachrichten von der Americanischen Halbinsel Californien_ (Mannheim, 1772; in the Mithridates, 1773), the an...

Here the _pi_ in _nga-pi_ is the _po_ in the Aiawong _nga-ppo_; the _gian_ in _gian-at_ being, probably, the _in_ in the Kowrarega _ina_ = _that_, _this_. _Ngalmo_, also, is exp...

To which of these classes the Loucheux belongs, has hitherto been unascertained. It is learned with equal ease by both the Eskimo and Athabascan interpreters; at the same time a...

Of the _last_ of these stages the English of the year 1849 affords the most typical specimen that can be found in the present _early_ date of language--_early_, considering that...

The Lutuami seems somewhat the most Sahaptin of the three, and this is what we expect from its geographical position, it being conterminous with the Molelé (or Cayús) and the al...

_Tanna and Mallicollo_ (taken together) _and New Caledonia_.--Neither with Mallicollo or Tanna alone, nor with Mallicollo and Tanna taken together, as compared with New Caledoni...

Here, the number of other words ending in _na_ is very considerable; so considerable that, if it were not for the cumulative evidence derived from other quarters, it would be do...

_Mexico-Guatemala._--The details of the languages of Mexico and Guatemala that are neither Mexican Proper (Astek) or Maya are difficult. Availing myself of the information affor...

_Australia._--In this island we have vocabularies for the following localities: (1.) Murray Island; (2.) Caledon Bay; (3. 4.) Endeavour River; (5.) the Burrah Burrah tribe; (6.)...

_Man_ ekeltamaiuh _Woman_ tukulthlimeilooch _Canoe_ 'tleagh slalthleim _Stars_ ko'kusmh hohooos _Rain_ steepais tepais _Snow_ amaikut smakoot _Water_ saioolkh sauwulh _Mountain_...

_one_ hook cain. _two_ ass. _three_ calle sah. _four_ had sah. _five_ yea co. _six_ in ne me sah. _seven_ whist taw lah. _eight_ waw ah sah. _nine_ ky yie kit to. _ten_ aye to v...

_man_ (_homo_) tama epatsh. _man_ (_vir_) uami ---- _woman_ wuctu seenyack. ---- wakoe sinyax. ---- huagin seen. _child_ whanu hailpit. ---- wakna ---- _father_ iham lothmocul....

_The Riccaree Language._--In Balbi and in the Mithridates, the Riccaree is stated to be a dialect of the Pawnee; but no words are given of it: hence the evidence is inconclusive...

=P.= 258.--"_Kawichen and Tlaoquatch._"--The Kawichen is nearer to the Nusdalum, Squallyamish, and Cathlascou than it is to the Tlaoquatch. This may be seen in Buschmann p. 649....

_eye_ nunnecsoon araythya ishtah. _knife_ warth wahata matzee. _pipe_ pechouon einpssah eekeepee. _tobacco_ cheesouon kitchtawan owpai. _dog_ hudther ahttah matshuga. _fire_ usi...