Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race

by Arthur James Johnes

Words for “Woman.”

South America.—Mocobis	Coenac, f.
Omaguans	Cunia, f.
South Africa.—Hottentots	Aukona, f.

Words for “Man,” (Vir and Homo.)

First Modification.

Negro-land	Gonee, M.
Asia.—Mongol	Kun, M.
Jukadshires	Kun sch, m.

Second Modification.

South Africa	T'kohn, h.[190]
N. America.—Algonquyn dialects	Tchainan, h.
Asia.—Corea	Tchin, H.
Europe.—Irish and Welsh	Duine, h., Dean, h.

Names Of “The Hand.”

The African words of this Class collected by Adelung are thirty-six in number. Of these, twenty-nine belong to the languages of the region of pure Negroes. In the following Analysis the whole of these words have been shown to be related to analogous words used in the other great divisions of the Globe.[191]

Names of “The Hand.”—Class I.