So again in English _New-town_, in Greek _Nea-polis_, would be simply combinatory compounds. Even _Newton_ would still belong to the combinatory stratum; but _Naples_ would have to be classed as belonging to the inflectional stage. Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, and the Dravidian languages belong in the main to the combinatory stratum; but having received a considerable amount of literary cultivation, they all alike exhibit forms which in every sense of the word are inflectional. If in Finnish, for instance, we find _käsi_, in the singular, hand, and _kädet_, in the plural, hands, we see that phonetic corruption has clearly reached the very core of the noun, and given rise to a plural more decidedly inflectional than the Greek χεῖρ-ες, or the English _hand-s_. In Tamil, where the suffix of the plural is +gaḷ+, we have indeed a regular combinatory form in +kei-gaḷ+, hands; but if the same plural suffix +gaḷ+ is added to +kal+, stone, the euphonic rules of Tamil require not only a change in the suffix, which becomes +kaḷ+, but likewise a modification in the body of the word, +kal+ being changed to +kar+. We thus get the plural +karkaḷ+ which in every sense of the word is an inflectional form. In this plural suffix +gaḷ+, Dr. Caldwell has recognized the Dravidian +taḷa+ or +daḷa+, a host, a crowd; and though, as he admits himself in the second edition (p. 143), the evidence in support of this etymology may not be entirely satisfactory, the steps by which the learned author of the Grammar of the Dravidian languages has traced the plural termination +lu+ in Telugu back to the same original suffix +kaḷ+ admit of little doubt. Evidence of a similar kind may easily be found in any grammar, whether of an isolating, combinatory, or inflectional language, wherever there is evidence as to the ascending or descending progress of any particular form of speech. Everywhere amalgamation points back to combination, and combination back to juxtaposition, everywhere isolating speech tends towards terminational forms, and terminational forms become inflectional.