The Etymology of Local Names: With a short introduction to the relationship of languages. Teutonic names
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Richard Morris
Richard Morris, Ph.D., is the author of more than a dozen books explaining the wonders and intricacies of the scientific world, among them The Big Questions, Achilles in the Quantum Universe, Time's Arrows, and The Edge of Science. He lived in San Francisco, California.
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The Etymology of Local Names - Richard Morris
Richard Morris
The Etymology of Local Names
With a short introduction to the relationship of languages. Teutonic names
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. THE RELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGES.
WORKS CONSULTED.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF LOCAL NAMES.
DIVISION I. DESCRIPTIVE ELEMENT.
(A) NAMES OF TRIBES, FAMILIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND GODS.
(B) NAMES OF ANIMALS.
(C) THE NAMES OF TREES, PLANTS, &c.
(D) NAMES OF MINERALS.
(E) ADJECTIVES.
DIVISION II. GENERAL ELEMENT.
(A) WORDS SIGNIFYING WATER, RIVER, &c.
(B) NAMES OF MOUNTAINS, HILLS, &c.
(C) NAMES OF VALLEYS, PLAINS, WOODS, &c.
(D) NAMES OF HABITATIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE RELATIONSHIP OF LANGUAGES.
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Languages,
says the author of The Cosmos,
compared with each other, and considered as objects of the natural history of the human mind, being divided into families according to the analogy of their internal structure, have become a rich source of historical knowledge. Products of the mental powers, they lead us back, by the fundamental characters of their organisation, to an obscure and otherwise unknown distance. The comparative study of languages shows how races, or nations, now separated by wide regions, are related to each other, and have proceeded from a common seat; it discloses the directions and paths of ancient migrations; in tracing out epochs of development, it recognises in the more or less altered characters of the language, in the permanency of certain forms, or the already advanced departure from them, which portion of the race has preserved a language nearest to that of their former common dwelling-place.
The coincidences between the languages of the globe have been made the subject of careful study by eminent scholars, who have established Comparative Philology upon the footing of a new science.
It has been found that mere verbal comparisons are utterly worthless in determining either the formation of groups of languages or their relations to one another. The dictionary of a nation may be borrowed, for words are soon lost and easily replaced; but the grammar of a language—that is to say, its syntax, conjugations, and declensions, the formation of new words from certain primitive forms, and those relational words which perform a similar function, as pronouns, numerals, and particles—is as constant and invariable as the nation itself. Grammatical analysis and comparison is therefore the only true method for the classification of languages according to their radical affinity; mere superficial resemblances of words prove nothing, nor have they any value unless tested and confirmed by arguments drawn from grammatical structure.
On the evidence afforded by a searching grammatical analysis, the languages of the greater part of Europe and Asia have been divided into three great families, whose grammatical forms are perfectly clear and distinct. They have been named
Indo-European
or
Arian
,
Semitic
, and
Turanian
.
(A)
The Indo-European
or
Arian
family of languages extends from the mouth of the Ganges to the British Isles and the Northern extremity of Scandinavia. The term Arian is derived from
Arya
, the original name of this family. It signifies honourable, or of a good family. In Asia we find two great branches of this family:
I. The Indian. This branch includes the Sanskrit (the language of the Vedas, the first literary monument of the Arian world), with its living representatives, the Hindustani, Mahratti, Bengali, Guzerati, Singhalese, &c.; the Prakrit and Pali idioms; the Siah-Posh (Kafir dialect), and the language of the Gipsies.
II. The Iranian or Persian. To this branch belong the Zend or Old Persian (the language of the Zendavesta), with its representatives; the language of the Achaemenians, written in the Cuneiform character; the speech of Huzvaresh or Pehlevi; the Pazend or Parsi; and the modern Persian. The following dialects, though not very important in a philological view, belong to this class:—the Afghan, Bokhara, Kurdian, Armenian, and Ossetian.
In Europe there are no less than six branches of the Arian family:
I.
The Celtic. Though the Celts seem to have been the first inhabitants of Europe, very few of their dialects are now spoken, having been superseded by the Teutonic idioms.
Modern Celtic dialects are divided into two classes; (a) the Gallic or Ancient British, including the Welsh (Cymric), Cornish, and Armorican of Brittany; (b) the Galic, Gadhelic, or Erse, including the Irish (Fenic), the Highland Scottish (Gaelic), and Manx, the dialect of the Isle of Man.
II.
The Teutonic. This branch is divided into three dialects; (a) the High German, including the Old High German, the Middle High German, and the Modern High German; (b) the Low German, including the Gothic, the Anglo-Saxon and English, the Old Saxon and Platt-Deutsch, the Frisic, the Dutch and Flemish; (c) the Scandinavian, including the Old Norsk, the Icelandic, the Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.
III.
The Italic. To this class belong the Oscan, Umbrian, and Latin dialects; the Old Provençal, and the Romance languages (Provençal and French, Italian and Wallachian, Spanish and Portuguese) formed during the decay of the Latin.
IV.
The Hellenic. This branch includes the Greek and its dialects, the Aeolic, Ionic, Doric, and Attic.
V.
The Albanian; including the Geghian and the Toskian dialects spoken in Illyria and Epirus.
VI.
The Slavonic or Windic branch is divided into two dialects; (a) the Lettic, including