Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"_Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira_" (Vol. viii., p. 539.).--I happen
to have by me a transcript of the record in which this word occurs; and it
is followed immediately by another almost equally astounding, which
F. J. G. should, I think, have asked one of your correspondents to
translate while about the other. The following is the word:
_Arademaravasadeloovaradooyou_. They both appear to be names of estates.
H. M.
Peckham.
_Cash_ (Vol. viii., pp. 386. 524.).--In _The Adventures of the Gooroo
Paramartan_, a tale in the Tamul language, accompanied by a translation and
a vocabulary, &c., by Benjamin Babington London, 1822, is the following:
"Fanam or casoo is unnecessary, I give it to you gratis." To which the
translator subjoins: "The latter word is usually pronounced _cash_ by
Europeans, but the Tamul orthography is used in the text, that the reader
may not take it for an English word."
"Christmas-boxes are said to be an ancient custom here, and I would
almost fancy that our name of box for this particular kind of present,
the derivation of which is not very easy to trace in the European
languages, is a corruption of buckshish, a gift or gratuity, in
Turkish, Persian, and Hindoostanee. There have been undoubtedly more
words brought into our language from the East than I used to suspect.
_Cash_, which here means small money, is one of these; but of the
process of such transplantation I can form no conjecture."--Heber's
_Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India_. vol. i.
p. 52.
Angelo, in his _Gazophylaceum Linguæ Persarum_, gives a Persian word of the
same signification and sound, as Italicè _cassa_, Latinè _capsa_, Gallicè
_caisse_.
BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.
"_Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi_" (Vol. viii., p. 502., &c.).--The
authority of Fuller ought, I think, to be sufficient to establish that this
saying was Bacon's own and not a quotation.
Fuller thus introduces it: "As _one_ excellently observes, 'Antiquitas
sæculi juventus mundi,'" &c., giving the remainder of the paragraph from
the _Advancement of Learning_; and refers in a note to Sir Frances Bacon's
_Advancement of Learning_ (_Holy and Profane State_, ch. vi.).
E. S. T. T.
_Caves at Settle, Yorkshire_ (Vol. viii., p. 412.).--BRIGANTIA will find a
very circumstantial and interesting account of these caves, and their
Romano-British contents, in vol. i. of Mr. Roach Smith's _Collectanea_.
G. J. DE WILDE.
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