Excerpt from The Numeral-Words: Their Origin, Meaning, History and Lesson The writer of these pages ventures in them to make an attempt at removing some of the obscurity in which the origin of the words denoting numbers in the English and other indo-germanic languages has to a great extent hitherto been hidden. So far as he is aware, there exists at the present time no sufficient and generally accepted explanation of the origin of the names for numbers in those languages. He hopes at all events that he may have invested with some degree of interest the problems which he discusses, and will succeed in stimulating further research upon the lines which he has followed, and also that what he has written on the subject may be regarded as a contribution, however slight, to the history of human progress. 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.