PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

FOR

1844-45 AND 1845-46.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY RICHARD AND JOHN E. TAYLOR,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

1846.

CONTENTS.

Notices of English Etymology. By HENSLEIGH WEDGWOOD, Esq.

On the Ellipsis of the Verb in English Syntax. By EDWIN GUEST,

Esq.

On the Languages and Dialects of the British Islands (continued).

By the Rev. RICHARD GARNETT

Suggestions on the Critical Arrangement of the Text of the Medea.

By the Rev. O. COCKAYNE

Miscellaneous Contributions to the Ethnography of North America.

By R. G. LATHAM, M.D.

31

On the English Verb do and the Latin da-re, and on the Formation of

the English Weak Perfects. By Professor KEY

50

On Mistakes in the Use of Obsolete Greek Words by Attic Writers.

By Professor MALDEN

57

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On the Use of the Collective Noun in English Syntax. By EDWIN

GUEST, Esq.

69

On the Languages and Dialects of the British Islands (continued).

By the Rev. RICHARD GARNETT

77

On the Meaning of the Word σápos. By R. G. LATHAM, M.D. .....

On the Languages and Dialects of Abyssinia and the Countries to the

South. By Dr. BEKE

85

89

On Onomatopoeia. By HENSLEIGH WEDGWOOD, Esq.

On the North-Anglian Dialect. By J. M. KEMBLE, Esq.

Bibliographical Notice of the Works on the Provincialisms of Holland

and Friesland. (From Papers by Van den Bergh and Hettema in

the Taalkundig Magazijn.) By R. G. LATHAM, M.D.

109

119

128

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On the North-Anglian Dialect (continued). By J. M. KEMBLE, Esq. 131

On the Relations which exist between the Preterite went and the Verb

go; and also between va, and the Verbs aller and andare. By Pro-

fessor KEY

143

On the Anomalous Verbs of the English Language. By EDWIN

GUEST, Esq.

149