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Comparatival suffixes in Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, and Gothic, compared, 157 note. condemnare, used for obliging to fulfil a vow,' 185.

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Coverdale; we probably owe the phrases threescore years and ten' and 'God save the King' to him,' 7-10.

Cynosura, the true position of, 103, 114.

Cyrus, his acquisition of the throne of Media, 19.

danunt for dant, and examples of similar prolongations, 185.

Darius, his account of himself in the Behistun Inscriptions, 15, contrasted with Herodotus's account, 16; the two salient points of his life, 23, 24; Henry VII. the English Darius, 24; his temperate use of his power, 25.

DAVIES, Rev. J.; on Celtic words used by early English Writers, 129-137 (pen, 129; kam or cam, 129; bragare, brazare, 130; mittan, 130; flaskettus, 131; pelum, 131; hobelarii, 131; capull, 131; kendel, 132; greece, grise, 132; imp, 133; crowd, crowder, 133; clutter, cluther, clodder, 134; braggot, braket, 134; kecks, kex, 134; tarre, terry, 135; lob, 135; tackle, takel, 135; bugs, bug-a-boo, bugle-bow, boggart, 136; arval, arvel, arwel, 136).

Delphi, meetings of the Amphictyons at, 52.

Derivations of single words :

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ein-fach (G.), fach=L. plica, (originally) a flat surface, 127.

eis, the old form of the nom. plur. of the Latin 2nd decl., 179. Erromango language, short vocabulary of, 59.

τιτθη, 234.

χαράσσω, 47. X0es-her-i, hes-, 97.

x0ov-=himo, 97.

φλεγω, 145.

Father and Mother, the names for them among various races are formed independently by each race, 188; four principal types for each name, pa, ta, ap, at, for father; ma, na, am, an, for mother, 190; vocabularies illustrating these, 197-204; the labial and dental p and t, generally used for the father, the liquids m, n, for the mother, 190; exceptions to this, 193; generally the labial (pa for father, ma for mother) is characteristic of the old world, and the dental (ta for father, na for mother) of the new, 191.

Flap or Flak,-on words admitting of being grouped around this root, 143-152, with a list of the hundred and twelve English words so to be grouped, 152.

to give the sack, meaning of the phrase, 90.

God save the King, origin of the phrase, 8-10.

GUEST, E., on the etymology of the word Stone-henge, 31-5.

yuvn, the crude form and cases of, 159, 177.

HENZEN, G., on the Inscription of Sora, 179-187.

Herbert's (Mr.) derivation of Stonehenge from Stone Hengest disputed, 31-35.

Hercules, custom of offering tenths to, 181, &c.
Herodotus, his account of Darius estimated, 17.

his account of the Battle of Salamis examined, and compared with Æschylus's &c., 101–115.

Hieromnemon, the duration of his office, 58.

hoc luciscit='see, see, it is getting light,' 124.

its, not in the first Authorized Version of the Bible, 10, or in Shakspere, 11.

KEY, T. HEWITT; on the Imperfect Infinitive, Imperfect Participles, and those Substantives which fall under the definition Nomen Actionis, 63-72.

; miscellaneous remarks on some Latin Words (armentum, 93; annus, 94; amare, 94; ames, 94; alec or halec, 95; adulari, 95; cauda, 95; ubi=cubi, alicubi, alibi, inde, unde, alicunde, &c., 96; istic, illic, hic, 96; abstemius, 97 ; æqualis, 97; aestivus, 98; oestrum, 98; adoptio, 99), 93–9.

; on some alleged Distinctions in Languages believed to be without foundation, 117-126.

; on the Etymology of απλους, διπλοος, επιπλοον, &c., 127–8.

.; on the Etymology of στοα, στοια, Dor. στωα, 138.

; on the Etymology of circumforaneus, circulator, cento, 152-4.

; some Remarks on the Speech Pro Plancio, 139-142.

; a Translation of, and Comments on, Dr. AHRENS's Paper "On Feminines in

- and -ws, and the word yuvn," 155-178.

; a Translation of Dr. G. HENZEN's Paper " On the Inscription of Sora," 179-187.

7 and r, changes of, in Sanskrit, 43, Romance, 44.

Languages all formed from monosyllabic roots, by agglutination of syllables, each a self-significant word, 126; the usual alleged distinctions in languages shown to be groundless, 117-126.

Languages not necessarily related because they possess similar words for the same objects, as these words were probably formed independently, from Natural Sounds, 188, &c.

LATHAM, R. G.; on the Aorists in -ka, 37-39.

; Remarks on Lists of the Personal Pronouns and Numerals of the Mallicolo and Erromango Languages, 60-2.

; on the Languages of New California, 72-86.

Latin fifth declension, 158.

second declension, nominative plural in eis, 179.

Leake, Col., his wrong account of the positions of the Fleets before and after the Battle of Salamis, 107, 111; and of the situations of Cynosura, Ceos, &c., 103. LEDUCQ, H.; on the Origin and primitive Meaning of the word Ange, 41–9. Lhuyd, not Pritchard, the first to notice the relationship between the Welsh hwynt, ynt, and the Latin -nt, 137.

Logical Phraseology; suggestions of names for Predicables to express every way in which we can predicate or deny one notion of another, in which some is not-all, 28-30.

Malayan languages, the primitive roots not verbal, 206.

MALDEN, H.; on the Amphictyonic League and the meaning of the term Amphictyones, 51-8.

Mallicolo language, short Vocabulary of, 59.

Medo-Persian History; an attempt at an outline of the Early Medo-Persian History, founded on the Rock-Inscriptions of Behistun taken in combination with the accounts of Herodotus and Ctesias, 13-26.

Members elected:-Dr. Altschul, 51; O. Ferris, 31.

men, process of its change from man, 121.

Natural Sounds (not the imitations of sounds) and the words formed from them, 188-206.

Onomatopoeia; course of the extension of meaning of words formed on this principle, 143.

the distinction between this and Natural Sounds, 188.

Persian army, movements of, before the Battle of Salamis, 112. Plancius, some remarks on Cicero's speech for him, 139–142. pollucere, use of, 183.

Polysynthetic or polysyllabic languages, 124.

Pronominal roots not distinct from verbal roots, 124.

Provincialisms and court-language, relative purity and value of, 125.

Pylagoras, the duration of the office of, 58.

Pyle, near Thermopyla, meetings of the Amphictyonic Council at, 52.

Salamis, on the Position and Tactics of the contending Fleets at the Battle of, 101-115.

Sanskrit feminine nouns in á, 156.

Scallage or Scallenge, the etymology of, 35.

Schlegel, A. W. and Fr. v.; their views of the classes of Languages discussed, 117-126.

Shall and Will, on the use of, 1-5.

Sora (in the kingdom of Naples); Remarks on a Latin Inscription of the first half of the seventh century, 179-187.

Stonehenge, the etymology of the word, 31-35.

Themistocles; the true estimate of the causes of his success at Salamis, 115.

Threescore years and ten; solemnity and beauty of the phrase,-first used by Coverdale, 7.

The Vertuleii of the Sora Inscription, 185.

Verbs not the roots of all language, 205.

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WATTS, Thomas; on some Philological Peculiarities in the English Authorized Version of the Bible, 7-11; (Coverdale's threescore years and ten' (7) and God save the King' (8-10); 'its' not in the authorized version on its first issue in 1611 (10), nor in Shakspere, 11).

WEDGWOOD, Hensleigh; on the use of Shall and Will, 1-5.

; on English Etymologies, 87-91 (ballast, 87; to box, 88; fetch-candle, fetch, 88; gizzard, 91; to gnarl, snarl, 88; gorse, 91; haberdasher, 91; light, lift, 89; pageant, 90; to pout, 91; to rack off, 90; to give the sack, 90; to sew, sewer, 88; wharf, 89; wig, periwig, 87).

WEDGWOOD, HENSLEIGH; on Words admitting of being grouped round the Root Flap or Flak, 143–152 (list of the one hundred and twelve English words so to be grouped, 152).

will, on the meaning and use of, 1-5.

Word-building by addition of affixes, and by inflection or motion,—on the alleged distinction between, 120-1.

Xerxes, his pedigree, 18.

lines of march of the divisions of his army before the Battle of Salamis, 112. - and -ws, the Greek Feminines so ending had a crude form in -04, 155–177.

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