[34] The principal among these laws were elaborated by Jacob Grimm, and hence called ‘Grimm’s Laws.’ They may be seen in his Teutonic Grammar, and also in his History of the German Tongue.
[35] Because they would be hardly likely to give a fresh name to such an intimate relationship as the daughter. On the other hand, it seems necessary that the Aryan race must have been in the hunter state at some period, and equally necessary that they must then have had a word for daughter. Milking, it may be urged, might be practised before the domestication of animals. See also Chapter VI.
[36] Supreme, because his title became a supreme title among these different Aryan stocks.
[37] And this without any reproach to the industry of those at work. The volumes of Kühn’s Zeitschr. für vergleichende Sprachforschung, Lazarus and Steinthal’s Zeitsch. f. Völkerpsychologie, M. Pictet’s fascinating Origines indo-européennes, etc., are storehouses which display the treasures already obtained.
[38] Such a book as we have imagined would form a natural sequel to the principles of comparative grammar as laid down by Bopp, etc. It would differ from a mere comparative dictionary in the arrangement, showing the nature and extent of modification which each word had undergone—where, for instance, Grimm’s laws of change hold good, where not; the cases of the survival of archaic forms (agreeable to Grimm’s second law); and, if they could be discovered as the result of such a classification, the determining causes of such survival among any of the different races.
[39] I have been told that the late Lord Strangford, a great linguist, and a comparative philologist to boot, could always find amusement for an idle half-hour in a book which the reader would probably think of, if asked to name the most uninteresting of created things—I mean Bradshaw, English or foreign; and his interest lay in extracting the hidden meaning and history which lay concealed in these lists of geographical names.
[40] It is found that the peculiarity of curling or not curling in hair depends upon the form, the form in section, of the individual hairs. The woolly hairs are oval in section, the straight ones round.
[41] Lenormant, Manual of the Ancient History of the East, vol. i., p. 55.
[42] Not that this particular foothold has descended to the Turks from early times. See the next paragraph.
[43] Lenormant, Manual, i. 343. It should be remarked that the authority of Justin on such a point is not high.