Here are about fifty English words, which, from their near resemblance to the Hebrew, both in sound and signification, must have been borrowed from the latter in modern ages, or been preserved thro successive generations from Heber to the present times. But they could not have been introduced into English in modern ages, for many of them are found in the other branches of the Gothic, the German, Danish and Swedish; and it can be proved that they existed in the original Gothic or northern language. For example, our word _earth_ is found in Hebrew, and in all the dialects of the Gothic. Hebrew, _ert_ or _ertz_; Welsh, _d'aira_; Greek, _éra_; Latin, _terra_; Gothic, _airthai_; ancient German, _erth_ or _herth_; Saxon, _eartho_; Low Dutch, _aerden_; High Dutch, erden; Swiss, erden; Scotch, airth; Norwegian or Norse, _iorden_; Danish, _iorden_; Swedish, _iordenne_; Irelandic, _iordu_. In the pronunciation of these words there is little difference, except such as is common to the several languages. The ancients aspirated their words more frequently than the moderns; hence the old Germans pronounced the word with _h_, as appears by a passage in Tacitus, De Mor. Germ. 40. "Nec quidquam notabile in singulis, nisi quod in commune _Herthum_, id est _terram_, matrem colunt."--The modern nations of the north generally write and pronounce _d_ where we write _th_; as _erden_; and the _i_ of the Norwegians answers to our _e_ or _y_, so that _iorden_ is pronounced _yorden_; and it is remarkable that many of the common English people still pronounce _earth_, _yerth_. The Hebrew _turna_ is found in the British _teyrn_, signifying a prince or ruler. This word is the root of the Greek _turannos_, the Latin _tyrannus_, the British _dyrnas_, a kingdom or jurisdiction, which is still preserved in the modern Welsh _deyrnas_; and we see the word in the name of the celebrated British commander, _Vortighern_. Our word tyrant is derived from it, but it is always used in a bad sense. In the Hebrew _rechus_ or _rekus_, we have the origin of the English _rich_, _riches_, and the termination_ rick_ in bishop-_rick_, and anciently, in king-_rick_; the word originally denoting _landed property_, in which wealth was supposed to consist, and afterwards _jurisdiction_. From the same word are derived the Anglo Saxon _ryc_; the Franco Theotisc, _rihhi_; the Cimbric, _rickie_; the ancient Irish or Gaedhlig, _riogda_; the Low Dutch, _rijcke_; the Frisic, _rick_; the German, _reich_; the Swiss, _rijch_; the Danish, _rige_; the Norwegian, _riga_; the Swedish, _ricke_; the French, _riche_, and the Spanish, _riccos_, a general name for nobility, or wealthy proprietors of land.