Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...because they use in this case the same words or speech (homoioys logoys). Each division is again subdivided into three classes as follbws: (-1) the first class marks the difference existing between elder and younger consanguinity by adopting special terms for each, and the difference of sex by adding either the words male and-female, or by modulation of sound; (2) the second possesses special terms for elder brother and elder sister, but one in common for yCunger brother and younger sister; (3) the third has four distinct terms for each of these varieties of kinship. These are the principal varieties in which concrete languages express the relationship between brothers and sisters. They represent approximately the different stages of development of thought which can be observed in the growth of the respective languages. The principle of concretion remains every where intact and distinct, but it appears in various phases of refinement corresponding to the mental capabilities of men. How this progress originates, how it grows, and where and why it stops, are questions difficult or impossible. to be answered. All we know is, that dialects, which have started from one common source have, in consequence of later digressions, been changed to such an extent that they must be assigned to different classes. Occasionally languages afford us a means of tracing the common origin and of explaining the subsequent deviations appearing in their ultimate development. The Hungarian Nene " cider sister" reveals the common origin and mutual relationship between Hungarian, and Samoyedic as well as the divergence which took place afterwards. The Samoyedic Tebena and Nena63 "elder brother" and "elder sister," are derived from Teb, "man," Ne...
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