[104] V. a 24, sve mestru karu fratru = “si major pars fratrum.”
[105] On the other hand, the Asiatic members of the family have certainly lost the distinction that existed in the parent speech between the vowels represented in the European members by ă, ĕ, and ŏ, so that the differentiation of the root ar may have been earlier than the period of Aryan separation. In the Finnic group roots are similarly differentiated by a modification of the vowel, kah-isen, koh-isen, and kuh-isen, for instance, being “to hit” or “stamp,” käh-isen and köh-isen, “to roar,” keh-isen and kih-isen, “to boil.”
[106] This happy term was the invention of Professor Max Müller.
[107] Mill: “System of Logic,” ii. p. 240.
[108] Grimm’s “Law: a Study” (1876).
[109] Böhtlingk: “Ueber die Sprache der Jakuten,” p. 168.
[110] “Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters” (1876).
[111] “De Div.” ii. 40, 84.
[112] Gallatin: “Synopsis of the Indian Tribes of North America,” in the “Archæologia Americana,” ii.
[113] “Die Melanesischen Sprachen” (1873), p. 4. According to Meyer (“Sitzungsberichte d. Oesterr. Akademie,” 1874, p. 301), “Riedel has made us acquainted with twenty-three dialects in some parts only of North Celebes, and the number of dialects in the whole island can only be estimated at hundreds.... But in New Guinea this dialectical variety is very much greater and more thorough-going, since there the very foundations of a state have not yet begun to be laid.”