Europe.—Bara (Welsh.) Bro (Norwegian.) Bread (English.) Brod or Brot (German.)
The source of these words seems to be, B.r.e, B.r.ou.th, “Food,” (Hebrew.) In the same language, Lc'h.m, “Bread,” primarily means “Food, To feed.”
Combined with the phenomenon of the absolute identity of the united elements of the languages of the Four Continents, we encounter a wide, and in many instances a total difference, when two individual languages are compared. And this is true not merely of two languages taken from different continents, but it is true also of languages spoken even in contiguous regions of the same continent.
How then are these singular features of general unity combined with individual diversity to be reconciled? Of this problem the investigation will be found in the following pages.
Chapter II. On The Differences Which Distinguish Individual Languages Of The Four Continents.
Section I.
These differences may be explained by Causes now in Operation. The principal causes are, The abandonment by different branches of the same race:
1, Of different Synonymes;