[249] Buschmann: “Abhandlungen d. Berlin. Akad.,” 1869, i. p. 122.
[250] The whole subject of reduplication has been exhaustively treated by Professor Pott, to whose work reference should be made: “Doppelung als eines der wichtigsten Bildungsmittel der Sprache.”
[251] “On the Origin of Civilization,” pp. 403-405.
[252] “Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians,” p. 77.
[253] See Pott: “Humboldt’s Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues” (1876), i. pp. 305, 306.
[254] Aristoph. “Eccl.” 1169.
[255] See Sayce: “The Tenses of the Assyrian Verb,” in “J. R. A. S.,” Jan. 1877.
[256] Not dhâ, “to place,” like the perfect in the Teutonic languages, since Old Irish has b (e.g. caru-b = “amabo”), and in Keltic b cannot come from dh.
[257] Earle: “Philology of the English Tongue” (2nd edition), p. 305.
[258] The only difficulty here is that the base of the feminine in Sanskrit is tiśar.