1. A portion of these synonymes, which were originally used for all the Heavenly Bodies alike, were exclusively _appropriated_ to the Sun, while other synonymes were appropriated in like manner to the Moon, &c.; among different nations the same terms were frequently applied to _different_ luminaries. Thus, in conformity to this principle, the English words “Sun” and “Moon” will be found to occur in the previous Analysis each applied, in other languages, to _both_ those luminaries. 2. In some cases the different luminaries were distinguished from each other in a different manner, viz. two or more synonymes were united into one compound word, which was employed as the distinctive name of one of the Heavenly Bodies, as of the Sun, for example, while the “Moon” and the “Stars” continued to be known by their original names, consisting of simple synonymes; or received new names, formed by means of _distinct_ compounds. Examples of the second class abound in the dialects of the American continent. One example may suffice in this place, by way of illustration: “Tes-gessu” in some of these dialects means the Sun; in other dialects we find each of its component elements, “_Tês_” and “_Gessu_,” used _separately_ as names of the same luminary. In common with many other important truths, the nature and origin of these compounds are, I conceive, rendered clearly apparent by an extended range of comparison, though they seem to have been a source of embarrassment to the philosophical mind of Du Ponceau, whose valuable inquiries were confined to a particular class of the dialects of North America. When the results of the previous Analysis are compared with the previous collection of African synonymes, used as names of the Heavenly Bodies, &c., it will be found that _nearly every one_ of these synonymes has been unequivocally connected with the languages of the other three great divisions of the globe. The exceptions are too insignificant to be in any respect deserving of attention, with reference to the objects of this investigation. The completeness of this explanation of the African terms may, in the first instance, form a subject of surprise. But, astonishing as the results of the previous comparison in this respect undoubtedly are, they are nevertheless precisely the same as we should be led _à priori_ to expect, on the assumption that the African nations are descended from the same stock as the inhabitants of the other three continents.(178) Words For “Man, Woman, Human Being.” [In the following Analysis, the letter M. marks nouns masculine, (“Vir,” _Latin_, “Man,” _English_;) F. marks nouns feminine, (“Fœmina,” _Latin_, “Woman,” _English_;) H. marks terms applied to a “Human Being,” whether “male” or “female,” (“Homo,” _Latin_, “Mensch,” _German_;) there is no equivalent expression in the English language.]