Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human RaceJohnes, Arthur James
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Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race
Johnes, Arthur James
Ethnology; Human beings -- Origin; Language and languages; Monogenism and polygenism
The Petro-Cori-i.(80) The inhabitants of the Departments of Dordogne and
Correze. Dordogne is thus described by Malte Brun:
“We may pass from the Department of Lot to that of Dordogne by descending
the last river which traverses it on the South from East to West. It is
also watered by the Ille, the Dronne, the Vezere, and by more than
_fourteen hundred small rivers_ and streams. Hills extend along this
country in every direction, but with the exception of two vallies, those
watered by the Ille and the Dordogne, they bound only _narrow passes,
almost all of which are desolated by torrents!_”
Correze. From the same authority we learn that two thirds of this
department consists of a mountainous region, full of “ravines and
precipices,” and that its scenery progressively assumes more of this wild
and romantic character as you ascend the river Correze, which gives its
name to the Department, and to its principal town. Correze is plainly
derived from Cori.(81)
The Cori-tan-i. A British tribe in Derbyshire, &c., from Cori and Tania,
an addition frequently made by the Romans to the name of a province or
district, as in Aqui-tania, Mauri-tania. Camden expresses himself totally
unable to explain this term satisfactorily.
The following are partly composed of ancient Celtic Topographical Names,
of which the appropriate meanings have not been preserved(82) in the Welsh
and Irish, &c., but are found in the Oriental and other languages.
“Eryr-i,” the Welsh name of the Snowdon Mountains. This word has been
variously explained by Welsh scholars, as meaning the “Snowy Mountain”
(from Eira, “Snow”), the “Eagles’ Mountain,” &c. None of these
explanations are appropriate. Moreover “Eryr-i” is not the name of a
_single_ peak, but of the Snowdon _range_ of mountains! “E.r.r” is a pure
Hebrew word, signifying a very high mountain,(83) from which “Eryr-i,” the
name of the Snowdon range, the highest in South Britain, is a plural
regularly formed!
Cimas da Our-ar-as, are high Mountains to the North of Lisbon.
Ban-nau Brycheiniog, “the Brecon Beacons,” lofty hills in Brecknockshire.
Ban de la Roche, the celebrated Pastor Oberlin’s residence among the
Vosges Mountains, in the East of France. Ban, “Lofty,” (_Welsh_,) Bian, a
Hill, (_Irish_,) Boun-os, a Hill, (_Greek_,) Ban-k (_English_), a
diminutive.
Bal. “Applied in Wales to Mountains that terminate in a Peak. Balannu, to
shoot or spring forth.” (Dr. W. Owen Pughe.) Belan is also applied to
Hills, as “Nant y Belan,” near Wynnstay. Bala, Bulund (_Persian_), Beland
(_Pehlwi_), Bulund (_Zend_), “High.”
“The Don and the Dune,” Rivers in Scotland. Trev-i don, i.e. “the Town of,
or on the River,” a place on the river Tarn, in the South of France. Don,
Dun, “Water,” “a River,” (_Ossetians_, a people of the Caucasus). “The
Don” River, in the country of the “Don Cossacks,” who are also considered
to be a people of the Caucasus. “Donau” (_German_), the Danube.
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