Root-Diggers or Diggers.
American: Indians of the Sierra Nevada, California, classed as Shoshones. They are also called Gens de Pitie, Radigeurs, and Maradiços; the most degraded race of Red Indians in N. America.
⁂ The language is allied to the Negritic or Pygmean of the Andamans. H. C.
Roots.
Ultimate forms of words, the primitive basis of a language, serving to connect related languages in different parts of the globe, and frequently transferred from one family of speech to another.
Rosetta-Stone.
Egyptian: remarkable object of antiquity in the B. Museum; Bilingual inscription of Ptolemy Epiphanes, B.C. 196, in Hieroglyphic, Demotic, or Enchorial, and Uncial Greek.
Rossawn, Rusan.
Indian: a dialect of Bengali spoken by Hindus of Arakan. See [Ruinga].