The first number of the Dictionary of the English language edited by Doctor Murray, President of the Philolegicnl Suoiety, and got up under the Society's ices,—* the new English Dictionary, on historical principles," laving come to light after long preparation, many of our ronders in the Bar Kast to whom it may not be easily accessible will desire to hear of it, are told in the preface to Part 1 commenced at the suggestion of Doctor neb, Archbishop of Dublin, more than a qui for of a century ago, The resources of the Society and of annum adio voluutwors were brought to upon the undertaking, and with a view to the illustration historically of th ing of English words, extracts were to be taken from all writers whatever, before the 16h contury."—OF more recent 1 rials it was plainly necessary to fa groat dex!; but, stra category of el every thing outside words were to be traced on forth their Teutonic forms. We are Nd in Profaco, that ' to trace the remoter history of those words, and determine their Aryan or other roots, is no part of their Knylish history." We are in short to have a history of America without Columbus, or the Mayflower, or Cortez, or Pizarro. Within this narrow limit tivo million quotations jong ago already xmaared,"
801) more renders set to and the United States, i ions to upwards of eight han 5,000 authors.
Tt svema a great pity to lave restricted all these sources of information to literature of the Jutes and Angles, whi every library in the world now possesses a wealth of nich more attractive infurmation upon our developed phonology: An array of quotations, a great part of them li r to the modern reader than hierog!, as they catch eye in Part I, will' not make even the early literature of the Jutes and Angles attraglive to the general able ethnological studies to which Max Mitllor has introduced us will apparently be ignored in the new Dictionary.
It might have been expected that Pro-fossors Muller, Rieu, Sayce, and Sheat, who ave said to have assisted in the work, would have furnished attractive matter from ro; a far outside the Cimbriau Chersonesus ind the Keltes of the United Kingdom and of America certainly could have given the editor abundant material, historical and otherwise, for the elucidation of English logology. One-half, at least, of the history of the Eugliah language wil when: complete, be found to have been built up out of the study of the Scotch and Irish branches of the Keltic. The road of Picta and Scots, in the form of phonetic roots, may excite anew the groat of the Britons, but philolegiats ought to ise superior to this insular humidity.
When the Keltic family first spread towards the West, giving names which still jo day intelligibly char-the principal rivers, and mountains of Europe, they doubtless brought with them an e language than those which 7 a Latin, Gaelic should expect to immediately formed upon the same roots which were common to the Taranian ai the Mongol. 4 fact, clo analogies betw io and languages. There 8, no Ary: tongue now surviving which has had a longer existence than the Keltic; and we find many Anglo-Keltic traced to the Greek and Loti wrong quantity of the a in the last named. Although Dr, Murray breaks ground with the Hebrew, he does not give Would it not be he says, the root am," Sanscrit bu, in the Persian sudan, to be.? The English verb be,' and the pronoun ' mo" are th in Mongol and Manchurian, Japanese me; in Mongolian in Chinese rea, to be °9, So far De. Edki men—e long,—Louie men, short, meaning indeed,' truly;'in Gaelic there is muner, fact.' All these words uly built upon the i of being,? ning,' etc. We have little comity of races, all easily understanding each other when they pronounce amen,' Why does the Philological Society shut most of them out as Strangers may be made intelligible by simply erring to " Keltic glossary, the history of the word adore" epitomized in Dr. Slurray's Dictionary as follows:—"* Ads old French, dare-r, dure-r, aoures, adorare, to add salute, reverence; in into Lai from ad to, wud orate, to ape from or, (nom. os,) mouth; rofashi the 14th century #rench as adourer, adorer, ce English, adore suggestion of the Latin ad and os, not to hi early Latin adore meant, wot to adore, but to accuse, or as we should say, to' fa we shall probabi; find that if there was a very old for "adore" from which the Eu well as the Latin, might have probably boon derived, its true root la to be found elsewhere. The Persian axar, fi nar, the Latin ardea, to buri villn,—" amenity." Dr, Murray goes doubt. ingly to France and to ancient Rome in search of the parentage of this foundling. His conclusion amounts to this: Query from Frouch amenite, or perhaps direct from the original Latin, amoenitas, from amocuus, pleat amoene, connected with amore, to Suto origin' would that v jut derivation from Fro! partof the Hebrew intimating the superior bounty of the region known by that nam We find the Greek aden, to please, the Hebrew ab, to desire, theGaclic aobaobhdha Tigh Pelasginn name of Thonsuly wae aobhin, pleasant, the German wonna, dew
almon-la, which, according to th gies, would men pleasant counti andadhi, pronounced eye all intimately connected. The ides of worship would have, with most of the Aryan peopl relation to fice, ax the moaria as well as object of worship; magh-adhraidh, " plain or field of worship" is a local which has come down probably from pagan the worship of Baal, the Fired although we t n one of the in fact, presenting all the which the younger and words have beau evolved Ly of Li old monninga fs curiously exemplified in the fact that the particular sug pecially character
connected with the notion of a place, of enjoying the charms of a place, of wel oideaet, hospitality hospitality. fact the Gu¢ Aoidhe to entertain,"
Ths Bloey of composed in the Gtk century, not follow. that the word had not come down from those pagan times, The sound of the consonant d, which ts so distinct in the modern English word, is heard only partially and ina modity in the Persian and Urdu words, and is altogether mute in the Lrisl ita absence from the old French as qi Dr. Murray is unaccounted for if acre-r, aura-r, and acre-r, are derived from adorare, 5 ho assumes.
Garden of Adonis, auggeate the aame id with which w perhaps connect Schadi, jay,' rejecting the initis S as no part of the rout, and the nord in Urdu, having the axine meaning. Take for another example the word lable," which the compilers of the ow Dictionary are content to derive in old classic tradition amo, amabilis, &e, or from h, aimable, Kither Amon" is another interesting word. For its history Dr. Murray goes, perforce, far away from the Cimbrian Cheraonesns, and extends his researches into the Far East. "*Amen?" he says, is from the Hlebrew amen, certainty," ' truth,? amen, to strengthen,' confirm Dent. XVI 1, 36. Andre in his more than this, There we hebrew amin jet It be,? be it Andrews cites Saint Augustin, lentius, and Paulus Nolinus, correcting Hebrew, cama, la to lo tani, kama, the God of Loi caemh, "love,""—desire"—the k, orc, being merely sspizate, and forming io part, of Caemh, in Gaelic, means also 3? in Urdu, kana ta "to ent," mih-mani," foast; Sanscrit, annam, "food." Keltic caemh retains the consonantal root, as well as the meaning of both classes' of words, besides the guts.
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