_Animal_ _Anifail_ _Turma_ _Tyrfa_ _Terminus_ _Terfyn_ _Calamus_ _Calaf_ _Primus_ _Prif_ _Amnis_ _Afon_ _Arma_ _Arfau_ _Firmus_ _Ffyrf_ _Monumentum_ _Monfent_ _Firmomentum_ _Ffurfafen_ _Lamentor_ _Llefain_ _Elementum_ _Eifen_ _Memorare_ _Myfyrio_ _Hyems_ _Gauaf_ _Clamare_ _Llafaru_ _Numerus_ _Nifer_ _Columna_ _Colofn_ _Gemelli_ _Gefeill_ _Roma_ _Rhufain_ _Scribo_ _Scrifenu_ _Liber_ _Llyfr_ _Remus_ _Rhwyf_ _Domo_ _Dofi_ _Rebello_ _Rhyfela_ _Pluma_ _Pluf_ _Catamanus_ _Cadfan_ _Dimetæ_ _Dyfed_ _Lima_ _Llif_ _Lamina_ _Llafn_, &c.
"We are not to wonder at this analogy of sounds in the primitive distinction of languages. For before the use of writing, which has established the correct form of words, people were only guided by the ear in taking the sound of words, and they pronounced and uttered them again as the organs of their voice were best fitted for it; and it happening that the aptitude and disposition of those organs, peculiar to some people and countries, were various (as we find to this day some nations cannot shape their voice to express all the sounds of another's tongue,) it accordingly affected and inclined some parties of people to speak the same consonants harder or softer, to utter the same vowels broader or narrower, longer or shorter, as they found themselves best disposed to do. And thereupon custom prevailing with particular sets of people, to continue the use of such different pronunciation as they affected, the words so varied came at length to take on them different forms, and to be esteemed and taken as parts of different languages, tho in their origin they were one and the same.[132]