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tongues on one siilo, and tlie Teutonic on the otlier, p. 97. Views of
Dr. Lottner and I'rofessor Scldeiclier, p. 97. Celtic closer to Latin
than to Greek, p. 97. Points of agreement between the Celtic and
the Northern tongues, p. 93. Words in Celtic languages in common
■with or borrowed from the Latin, ]>. 98. jMethod of denoting the
Kymric dialects, p. 93. Glossary of Latin loan-words in Old Celtic,
pp. 99-107. AVords borrowed by the Latin from the Gauhsh, and
later from the British, p. 107.
§2. GlossnrinJ aflinities of the Celtic and Classic languages. Glossary of
words and roots exclusively common to the Celtic and Classic
languages, pp. 107-109.
§ 3. Glossarial affinities of the Celtic, Classic, Teutonic, and Lito- Slavonian
languages. Glossary of words and roots common to the Celtic and
Classic languages, but also found in the Teutonic, Slavonian, and
Lithuanian, pp. 109-112. Of certain other roots to be added to this
list. Examples, pp. 112-113.
§ 4, Glossarial affinities of the Celtic, Classic, and Teutonic languages.
List of words and roots common to the Celtic, Greek, and Teutonic, p.
113. List of those common to the Celtic, Latin (or Italic), and
Teutonic, pp. 113-114.
§ 5- Glossarial affinities of the Celtic, Teutonic, and Lito-Slavonian
languages. IVIutual borrowing among the languages. Examples of
borrowed words, pp. 1 14-1 13. List of words and roots common to the
Celtic, Lithuanian, Slavonian, and Teutonic, pp. 115-1 16.
§ G. Glossarial affinities of the Celtic and Teutonic. List of words and
roots common to the Celtic and Teutonic, pp. llG-119.
§7. Glossarial affinities of the Celtic and Lito-Slavonian. List of words
and roots common to the Celtic, Lithuanian, and Slavonian, p. 119.
Original words in the Celtic, p. 119. Agreement with the Sanskrit
in nomenclature of the cardinal points, p. 119. Summary of results of
the foregoing tables, as regards the true relation of the Celtic to
other European languages, pp. 119-120.
§ 8. Phonological affinities:— Vocalismus. Study of principles on wliich to
judge of an earlier or later separation of tongues yet imperfect. Ex-
ample : comparison of treatment of the neuters in the Old Gaedhelic
and the Hebrew, — the Polish and the Slavonian. Want of a geography
of sounds; (note on this subject), pp. 120-121. The elementary de-
velopement of the vocalismus only to be followed out Avith clearness
in the Gothic, p. 121. The Gothic short vowels, a, i, u, p. 121. The
Latin and Greek, and tlie Celtic compared, pp. 121-122. Analogous
vowel changes in Teutonic, Slavonian, and Celtic roots, p. 122. In
the diphthongal system the Celtic nearest to the Teutonic. Examples,
p. 122.
§ 9. Phonological affinities: — Consonantismus. Celtic analogous to Lithua-
nian and Slavonian in having no aspirate in its older phonetic stage,
p. 122. Celtic in this contrasts with the Greek, p. 123. Deviations
from the Teutonic, p. 123. Agreements, p. 123. Changes of secondary
aspirates into medials, or medial-asinrates, p. 123. Hardening of
medials in the Celtic and Teutonic, p. 123. The Gaedhelic thicken-
ing of the n (or mi), p. 123.
§ 10. Affinities of ivord-formation. The suffix -tion exclusively Italo-Celtic,
p. i23. Other suffixes ; (-/«; -id ; -aire ; -ire ; -doit ;) p. 1 24. The peculiar
suffix-combination : a}itat, (-atu, -etu), p. 124. Celtic word-formation
of a modem character, p. 124. Wider use of K than in the Classic
languages ; (-ach), p. 124.
§ 11. Affinities of declension. Only the Pclasgic languages have fern, a-
stems. Agreement of Celtic with the northern languages, p. 124.
Masc. rt- stems foreign to the Celtic, p. 125. Few fem. n- stems in
Celtic, p. 125. Celtic approaches the Classic languages in having
preserved more pure consonantal stems, but differs from them in treat-