149 Dr. Prichard, Eastern Origin of Celts, p. 134.
150 This is an erroneous example, I conceive. “Megosh” is also a questionable one.
151 Dr. Prichard, Eastern Origin of Celts.
153 Many of those differences displayed by the North American Indian languages among themselves, and as compared to those of Asia, which have been assumed by many writers to be fundamental, consist of mere transitions of application agreeably to Horne Tooke’s principles; terms which appear as pronoun inflections in one dialect, occurring as pronouns, or as words for “Man” in others, &c. Thus we have Rauha pronoun of the third person “He” (_Iroquois._) Rehoje, “Man Homo,” (_Tarahumaran._) R.ch.e, Rou.e, “Life, Soul, Spirit, Breath,” (_Hebrew and Arabic._)
154 As to the identity of these inflections, “Om, Amo, Amen,” with pronouns and nouns. (See Appendix A, pp. 53-4.)
155 These terms seem to consist of the first essays of the organs of articulation. (See p. 105.)
156 Ki-nondonim-i, “I,” or “We understand you,” (_Algonquyn dialects._) Compare Eimi, Tupt-oi-mi, &c. (_Greek._) Bha va-mi (Sans.) &c. Compare “Amo,” with “I Am,” (_English_,) &c.
157 See Appendix A, p. 56, for the origin of this word.
159 This Pronoun does not occur in any Indo-European language except the Welsh. The Pronoun of the first person occurs in a modified form in the Greek.
160 The names for the Sun, Moon, and the Eye, are generally from the same roots.
161 Compare the unsatisfactory Etymology of Ee . ou . m, usually adopted by Hebrew lexicographers, from E . m, Tumult, because there is “a tumultuous agitation of the celestial fluid,” at daybreak.
162 This is an important word, as being one of the instances adduced by Dr. Leipsius, in opposition to Champollion’s opinion, that the modern Coptic is perfectly identical with the ancient Egyptian. This word, Iri, “an Eye,” and its signification, are only known to us through Plutarch. The term is obsolete in the Coptic.—Leipsius, “Lettre à Rossellini.”
163 Mu lilo, Um lilo, also occur as words for fire, in the South of Africa.
164 N’jellauma, and Liulu, both occur in the dialect of the Phellatas, and Leoure occurs in that of the Fulahs, who are a kindred race.
165 Burhum-_Safara_, The Sun, which occurs in one of the Negro dialects, seems to be derivable from the same root.