[161]. Romance of ʿAntar, IV. 97. 2.
[162]. This connexion is found among the Polynesians: ‘The time-reckoning in all Polynesia conformed to the moon. They reckoned by nights,’ &c., Gerland, Anthropologie der Naturvölker. 71. Only the nights had names, the days had none, ibid., pp. 72. Both the chronology according to moons and the counting of days by nights are linguistically demonstrated of the Melanesian group. See the comparison in Gerland, ibid., pp. 616–619.
[163]. Laz. Geiger, Ursprung und Entwicklung der menschlichen Sprache und Vernunft, II. 270.
[164]. Die heiligen Schriften der Parsen, in German, II. xcviii. and III. xx.
[165]. God in History, II. 433–5.
[166]. De Bello Gallico, VI. 18: ‘Spatia omnis temporis non numero dierum, sed noctium finiunt; dies natales et mensium et annorum initia sic observant, ut noctem dies subsequatur.’
[167]. Germania, XI: ‘Nec dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant. Sic constituunt, sic condicunt: nox ducere diem videtur,’ in connexion with the public assemblies at the changes of the moon. The fact must not be overlooked that, according to Caesar, ibid. 22, the Germans ‘agriculturae non student, majorque pars victus eorum in lacte, caseo, carne consistit.’ See also, on this subject, Pictet, Les origines Indo-Européennes et les Aryas primitifs, II. 588.
[168]. And in ‘Se'nnight.’—Tr.
[169]. The identical English term ‘Leap year’ is another apposite example.—Tr.
[170]. See the Hungarian review, Magyar Nyelvőr, I. 26–28.