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loquendi ^\ fe qaimot seek it in Anglo-Saibn writings ; there we find foreign Words , dead arid 16 ng lost shades , seldona -ii ^/ lto ^^ ' fec ^ dlis ; of the hevv tbiigue , with ruany words Mhtiig . / # e '\ o ^ di s ^ it ?;' -fii ' . l ^ wiahd orhi ISToi ^ undbrlaii ; forthough soruetimes we may find English ^ wo ^ elsfewhere lo ^ yet we likewise find that English words have given way to Danish We cannot seek the living few of English speech in the works of our writ ^ howev ^ that whatever heathensprings ; not always from . * ¦ the well of English uhd efiled / , >
The wi ^ beginning ^ described :---^ The styles may be thus ^ ft ^ ^ M : ^; -MS ^ i f much of ifee Bible * I > £ l ^ Foye . fofc ^ Johnson . 4 ih . BI ^ to Latinand
freer and less stilted , have done much to bring ^ and commoii shape . Within the last hundred yea ^ was thought gtamA and fine io workup lo ^ Was , to use ieommon Eng h ^ speech , withShegrovptihd ^ arisen ; and att & ough Gerifenism or JB &^ " , ^^(^^; iSas hM Sway with sohiey aM Scaiidihaviahism with i ^ iike *^
M stand : by itself as English le TM part of the world ' s sin ^ c we venture to say hot known to many ordinary readers . We s ^ as a literary curiosity , the words " father * " " mother , " " , " and " brother "in these several languages >— : ' ¦
/' The kindred between-the Indo-European tongues will be seen by t ^ —Anglo-Saxony fethery mother , sunu > brother ;^ ^ ^ brother ; Frisian , feder , moder , sun ; Flemish , NetherlancUsh or Nether Dutch , vader , moeder , zoon , broeder ; Gothic , arta , modur , sunus , brbthar ; Swedish and Danish , fader , moder , son , broder : Icelandic , fader , mooder , suhr , Drbder ; High iPiUch or German , vater , mutter , sohn , bruderl [ The above are Qermanie . ] Zend , paitar , matar , bratar ; Persian , pader , riiader , fersend / brader ; SokJicCrese , petar ,
iriader , far & und , birader ; P ' eKlvi , abider , amider , berur ; Osseiinlian , fider , dade , mad , firt , arwad ; Kxmd or Kurd , haw ( lather ) , brah ( brother ) . [ The foregoing are Persian . ] Sanskrit , pita , mata , suna , bhrater ; Bengalee , pita , niata , shaleea , bhaee ; Hindostanee , pita , mader , furzund , biradur . [ The foregoing are Indian ;] Armenian , hair , mair ; Albanian or Skipetar , ba , mama ; Old Greek , pater , meter ; Romaic or Modern Greek , pateras , mafcera ; Latin or Old Roman , pater , mater , frater ; Italian , padre , madre , fratello ; Spanish , padre , madre ; Portuguese , pat , mai ; French , pere , mere , frere ; WatlacMan , tato , muina , frate . [ The foregoing are of the Helleno-Roman family . ] Welch , tad , mam , brawd ; Cornish , taz , mam , bredar ; Breton , tat , mam , breur > Irish , athair , mathair , bhrathair ; Erse or Irish of the : Scotch Highlands , athair , mathalr , brathair ; Manx , moir , braar . [ These are Celtic ] Russian , oshezy , mat , sunn , uraf ; Slavish , bat , mater , syn , brat ; Polish , oyciec , matka , syn , brat ; Bohemian or Czech , otzie , gin ; LitJmdnian , meter , sunug .
[ These are Slavonian . ]" In closing this necessarily brief notice , we must again refer our readers to the work itself , as we are aware that our limits have prevented us frotndoing justice to its numerous merits . Our learned brother may ' itest assured that the literary public will look with interest for the prbftiised adclition to his labours on the subject of speech knowledge . "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
loquendi ^\ fe qaimot seek it in Anglo-Saibn writings ; there we find foreign Words , dead arid 16 ng lost shades , seldona -ii ^/ lto ^^ ' fec ^ dlis ; of the hevv tbiigue , with ruany words Mhtiig . / # e '\ o ^ di s ^ it ?;' -fii ' . l ^ wiahd orhi ISToi ^ undbrlaii ; forthough soruetimes we may find English ^ wo ^ elsfewhere lo ^ yet we likewise find that English words have given way to Danish We cannot seek the living few of English speech in the works of our writ ^ howev ^ that whatever heathensprings ; not always from . * ¦ the well of English uhd efiled / , >
The wi ^ beginning ^ described :---^ The styles may be thus ^ ft ^ ^ M : ^; -MS ^ i f much of ifee Bible * I > £ l ^ Foye . fofc ^ Johnson . 4 ih . BI ^ to Latinand
freer and less stilted , have done much to bring ^ and commoii shape . Within the last hundred yea ^ was thought gtamA and fine io workup lo ^ Was , to use ieommon Eng h ^ speech , withShegrovptihd ^ arisen ; and att & ough Gerifenism or JB &^ " , ^^(^^; iSas hM Sway with sohiey aM Scaiidihaviahism with i ^ iike *^
M stand : by itself as English le TM part of the world ' s sin ^ c we venture to say hot known to many ordinary readers . We s ^ as a literary curiosity , the words " father * " " mother , " " , " and " brother "in these several languages >— : ' ¦
/' The kindred between-the Indo-European tongues will be seen by t ^ —Anglo-Saxony fethery mother , sunu > brother ;^ ^ ^ brother ; Frisian , feder , moder , sun ; Flemish , NetherlancUsh or Nether Dutch , vader , moeder , zoon , broeder ; Gothic , arta , modur , sunus , brbthar ; Swedish and Danish , fader , moder , son , broder : Icelandic , fader , mooder , suhr , Drbder ; High iPiUch or German , vater , mutter , sohn , bruderl [ The above are Qermanie . ] Zend , paitar , matar , bratar ; Persian , pader , riiader , fersend / brader ; SokJicCrese , petar ,
iriader , far & und , birader ; P ' eKlvi , abider , amider , berur ; Osseiinlian , fider , dade , mad , firt , arwad ; Kxmd or Kurd , haw ( lather ) , brah ( brother ) . [ The foregoing are Persian . ] Sanskrit , pita , mata , suna , bhrater ; Bengalee , pita , niata , shaleea , bhaee ; Hindostanee , pita , mader , furzund , biradur . [ The foregoing are Indian ;] Armenian , hair , mair ; Albanian or Skipetar , ba , mama ; Old Greek , pater , meter ; Romaic or Modern Greek , pateras , mafcera ; Latin or Old Roman , pater , mater , frater ; Italian , padre , madre , fratello ; Spanish , padre , madre ; Portuguese , pat , mai ; French , pere , mere , frere ; WatlacMan , tato , muina , frate . [ The foregoing are of the Helleno-Roman family . ] Welch , tad , mam , brawd ; Cornish , taz , mam , bredar ; Breton , tat , mam , breur > Irish , athair , mathair , bhrathair ; Erse or Irish of the : Scotch Highlands , athair , mathalr , brathair ; Manx , moir , braar . [ These are Celtic ] Russian , oshezy , mat , sunn , uraf ; Slavish , bat , mater , syn , brat ; Polish , oyciec , matka , syn , brat ; Bohemian or Czech , otzie , gin ; LitJmdnian , meter , sunug .
[ These are Slavonian . ]" In closing this necessarily brief notice , we must again refer our readers to the work itself , as we are aware that our limits have prevented us frotndoing justice to its numerous merits . Our learned brother may ' itest assured that the literary public will look with interest for the prbftiised adclition to his labours on the subject of speech knowledge . "