155 These terms seem to consist of the first essays of the organs of articulation. (See p. 105.) 156 Ki-nondonim-i, “I,” or “We understand you,” (_Algonquyn dialects._) Compare Eimi, Tupt-oi-mi, &c. (_Greek._) Bha va-mi (Sans.) &c. Compare “Amo,” with “I Am,” (_English_,) &c. 157 See Appendix A, p. 56, for the origin of this word. 158 Ni, “I,” (_Basque._) 159 This Pronoun does not occur in any Indo-European language except the Welsh. The Pronoun of the first person occurs in a modified form in the Greek. 160 The names for the Sun, Moon, and the Eye, are generally from the same roots. 161 Compare the unsatisfactory Etymology of Ee . ou . m, usually adopted by Hebrew lexicographers, from E . m, Tumult, because there is “a tumultuous agitation of the celestial fluid,” at daybreak. 162 This is an important word, as being one of the instances adduced by Dr. Leipsius, in opposition to Champollion’s opinion, that the modern Coptic is perfectly identical with the ancient Egyptian. This word, Iri, “an Eye,” and its signification, are only known to us through Plutarch. The term is obsolete in the Coptic.—Leipsius, “Lettre à Rossellini.” 163 Mu lilo, Um lilo, also occur as words for fire, in the South of Africa. 164 N’jellauma, and Liulu, both occur in the dialect of the Phellatas, and Leoure occurs in that of the Fulahs, who are a kindred race. 165 Burhum-_Safara_, The Sun, which occurs in one of the Negro dialects, seems to be derivable from the same root. 166 Mot-Sichari, Day, a word that occurs among the languages of the South of Africa, is probably from the same root. 167 It may be inferred, however, that the simple word, Masso, was applied originally as we find it in the Georgian, to the Sun, before it was used for the Eye. It is an error to suppose that the names for such organs as the “Eye” belong to the first elements of language. The name for the Eye is generally a mere derivative of words for “Light,” “Sun,” &c. 168 See Note in page 14. 169 See Note in page 14. 170 These words,—Aithein, “To burn,” Greek, and “Ashes,” English, &c.—are said by German scholars to be mutually connected. (Schwenk’s Wörterbuch.) 171 It is observable that the Hebrew words, Ee.ph.c’h, and Ph.ou.c’h, are evidently imitations of the act of Breathing, or Puffing. They may, I conceive, be regarded as the roots of all the words for “Fire,” &c., which follow. 172 Du Ponceau, whose principles are here adopted as probably applicable to all languages, states that in the Algonquyn Class of Dialects of North America the names for the Moon are derived from those for the Sun, with the addition of a word meaning night, &c. The word Hak, he says, is very generally thus used, for the Moon, with the requisite addition.