80 Petro is said to mean a Rock, in Gaulish names, by some French Celtic scholars. 81 Hence, also, as may be inferred, the Curi-osilitæ in Brittany. 82 In such instances, however, the Celtic generally presents words approaching in sound and sense to those occurring in the Local names, though not so near to then as the Oriental terms, &c. 83 E.r, a Mountain; by reduplication E.r r, a very high Mountain (_Heb._) 84 Kohl’s Russia. 85 Here is an explanation, in the instance of the very same word, of Lhuyd’s difficulty noticed in the last Section. 86 In Appendix A the original identity and subsequent specific appropriation of the names of the Heavenly Luminaries are especially noticed. See Appendix A, p. 48. These words occur in the same Appendix; as to “Tin-dee,” see p. 26, as to “Nganga,” see same page. 87 For example: “Carbonic Acid Gas,” called also “Choke Damp” (by miners,) and “Fixed Air.” “Carburetted Hydrogen,” called also “Fire Damp” (by miners), “Inflammable Air,” “Coal Gas,” and “Gas.” “Iodine,” from Iōdēs, “Like a Violet,” (_Greek_,) a name suggested by its beautiful violet tint. “Nitrous Oxide,” or “Protoxide of Azote” (terms expressive of its component elements), a gas discovered by Dr. Priestley, called also “Laughing Gas” (from its peculiar property discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy). “Gas” is from a German word meaning “Breath, Air, Spirit,” &c. &c. 88 See Remarks in Adelung’s Mithridates on the Hebrew. 89 Some excellent observations on the subject of words thus formed by children occur in some late numbers of Chambers’s Journal. 90 This did not apply to the first four lines quoted above. 91 This is perfectly obvious in the Hebrew, and may be shown by Analysis in other Languages. 92 See Dr. Darwin’s Zoonomia. 93 The occurrence in the Georgian, as a word for a “Father,” of this term, which is generally used for a “Mother,” is specially noticed by Adelung. Compare the other example from the dialect of the Mangrees. 94 Sir William Jones’s Works, vol. iii. p. 185. 95 The term Semetic, i.e. descendants of Shem, for which Dr. Prichard has proposed to substitute Syro-Phœnician, is applied to the ancient nations of Judea, Syria, and Arabia. The common origin and specific connexion of most of these nations which may be inferred from the Scriptural account, are distinctly apparent from the close affinity of their languages. These Tongues by the highest authorities have been pronounced to be as nearly related as the Doric and Ionic dialects of the Greek. 96 See a Treatise by Rammohun Roy, showing that the ancient faith of the Hindoos involved the unity of the Deity. 97 Ju-piter is a compound of Pater, a Father, with “Jov,” which is the basis.