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în the languages which I have compared,, it has the fol-<
lowing appropriate senses.
Heb. 2H ylb, Ά father, the niithor, the origin; verdure,,
or youthful vigour, which imports a tendency to a mature
state.
Π2}< Abe, he willed, he desired.
Gr. 'Aê-cíç (Dor. p. VA?) therefore α'ζα,ω, I grozo towards
manhood, or maturity.
Lat. Av-us, an ancestor; ix father, (whence, avunculus}
q. avusculus) — cause of being.
yh'-eo, I covet, desire — wish the existence of a thing to
îue : habeo, I possess — there positivelj/ is to me.
Welsh. Äb, aptness to any thing : Av, progressive, or
augmentative state — the superlative form of adjectives.
Irish. Ah, a lord, ά father: Aba, a fat her, a cause:
jibh-ar, a cause, or motive.
Armor. Ab-ec, a cause, or occasion,
ΒΛ, VA.
The elements are the same as in the former, but the
order is reversed : so that, instead of conducive, or iendins:
lo the existence, we have being directhj progressive — an
cfect — what /5 coming, or going forth.
Heb. H3, Ba, he came, advanced, went — was progressive.