Excerpt from Etymologicon Universale; Or, Universal Etymological Dictionary: On a New Plan, Vol. 2: In Which It Is Shewn, That Consonants Are Alone to Be Regarded in Discovering the Affinities of Words, and That the Vowels Are to Be Wholly Rejected; That Languages Contain the Same Fundamental Idea; And That They Are Derived From the Earth, and the Opera Theory he may adopt respecting the primitive source, ' from which such facts were derived. This Theory, as l have frequently observed, whatever it may be, does not interfere with the relation of the terms, there produced, to each other, in their secondary application; nor with the process, by which that relation has been effected - I shall now, however, proceed to a vein of enquiry, in which the principles of my Hypothesis will be per petually apparent in the most marked and distinct characters. I shall produce, in the present Chapter, a Race of words, in which this connexion with the earth will be, I trust, per petually visible, and will appear most fully illustrated, in the general series of examples whichare the objects of our discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.