breadth and flatness are all derivative ideas from the root bad or pat, and they are the
from a root which also means side. In mo- same with planus, planities . Flatness and
dern English siding and sideling have been breadth are expressed by one word, because
formed from side . As a demonstrative this it is the mind that defines the difference in
root is ??, chi, for zhet, this, and %P_ , che, their meaning, while the hand and the
in modern Chinese . mouth supply the gesture and the sound,
What I maintain is that this is the only which made up the idea of the word and the
explanation possible of latus and side, word itself. fa has final t and so also
because gesture was the controlling element has ?? through its phonetic. Thus then
in the origination of this group of words . this root is pat, send forth ; or it is pat de-
The mind having become familiar with the monstrative ; or pat broad, with appropriate
use of this demonstrative was able to pro- gesture ; or pat, flat, plain, with appropriate
ceed by the aid of gesture with the succes- gesture??
sive acccumulation of derivative, of which P may be used in teaching the etymology
the words given above are some of the of words when traced back to primeval
examples . language. But the history of letter changes
The word Van in Chinese has in it both in Chinese chews that P proceeds from B.
the idea of side and of flatness . How then The surd always proceeds from the sonant .
the words of the Chinese language can be There is no T that was not first D, T is the
parent of S, Sh, Ch : Dz, is the parent of L,
of any other origin than our own is quite
inconceivable . Every root formed of two or S, Sh, J, Z, Ch, Dj.
three syllables is a compound of two or The same may be said of f in words such
three monosyllables. Note our word weak, as ?? ??, fang fut. The ultimate form
in Sw . vek, Icel, veik, turn aside from . As to which they can be reduced is bom, bam,
wican, give way, ?? nok, weak, ?? weak, bad. When we reach this stage we find
is in Arabic ?? dagif, weak . This that comparison can be made with forma,
word has two roots, dag and gab . and again with ?? pattern frame . The
Tahhath, ?? /-7,'/ , in place of, instead letter l after initial b, p is always radical .
This is not the case with r. R is a phonetic
of, is the Chinese ?? dai, fit, dak ; compare
insertion . Consequently the root of frame
?? yek, throw. It is also the Chinese ?? ??
is pam, the Chinese ?? fan, bam, a frame .
t'i, t`ik, for . Job 34, 26, sefagam reshagim
tahatb . ` He striketh them as wicked men .' The frame for making
?? ?? ?? ?? ??
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cash is called a bam . In casting the Roman
as, the implement, a forma, was like that of
tak is our word like. Instead of, is then a
China . The verb formo, formavit, means to
derived sense . To strike, sap, and pak,
give proportioned shape. Formosa beau-
precede the word am, for tam, which is our
tiful is a word which chews that to the
them .
Latin eye proportion in the features was
Instead of, in place of, are both trans-
that which woke up the sentiment known
formed demonstratives . In the word stead,
as the love of the beautiful. We say there
ted is that, compare place, piazza, ??,
is beauty in oolours and there is beauty in
flat and broad, and the battle of Plataea.
form, our etymological inquiry has conduct-
In originating this root the hand sent forth
ed us to a rational explanation of the word
would be the symbol, and this is ?? and
form . R is an insertion. Fom is the root
_ , according to the use made of the root
bam, a frame, and this root is in Chinese
by the speaker as pronoun or verb. This is
and in Latin, with an equal right to recogni-
a satisfactory explanation, for if not so why
are flat and broad one word ? They are tion in both these forms of speech.
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