I have said that I shall not rely too much on the resemblance of name, Hoa; but I must draw attention to the curious resemblance which lurks in the name "Aüs" to the words upon which the Vicomte D'Anselme has founded an argument in the appended note.[155] [155] "Comment le nom du premier navigateur connu, tel qu'il se prononça en Hébreu et qu'il nous est transmis par la Génese, 'Noh, Naus, Noach,' serait-il devenu le nom d'une arche flottante, d'un navire, en Sanscrit et en vingt autres langues? _Nau_, sanscrit; _Naw_, armenien; _Naus_, grec; (_Navis_, latin); _Noi_, hibernien; _Neau_, bas breton; _Nef_, nav. franc; _Noobh_, irlandais; _Naone_, vanikoro; _Nacho_, allemand vieux; _Naw_, timor; _Nachen_, allemand; _S'nechia_, islandais; _S'naeca_ ou _Naca_, anglo-sax.; _S'nace_, ancien anglais; _Sin-nau_, cambodge, &c. "Enfin nous demandons comment le nom Hébreu de l'arche de Noë. Tobe, prononcé comme on écrivait généralement en Orient, en sens inverse, donne le nom d'un vaisseau dans vingt langues qui sont des dialectes du Sanscrit? L'écriture boustrophedone, qui fait les lignes alternativement à droite et gauche sans interruption a pu donner naissance à cette manière de lire:--_Boat_, anglais; _boite_, français; _bat_, anglo-saxon; _boot_, hollandais; _bat_, suedois, _baat_, danois; _batr_, islandais; _bad_, breton; _bote_, espagnol; _boar_, persan; _batillo_, italien; _pota_, sanscrit." _Vide_ other similar proofs from Vicomte d'Anselme's "Monde Païen," &c. In Gainet, i. 223, a curious additional instance of the same word having connections with "boat" and arc (_tobe_) might be discovered in Kibotos, the name of a mountain in Phrygia, where the ark is said to have rested (Gainet, i. 220). Also we have almost the same words--ark and arc--to express (though according to a different etymology) these dissimilar objects. "The words oar and rudder can be traced back to Sanskrit, and the name of the ship is identically the same in Sanscrit (naus, nâvas), in Latin (navis), in Greek (naus), and in Teutonic, Old High Germ. (nachs), Anglo-Saxon (naca)."--Max Müller, "Comp. Mythol.," p. 49. I may draw attention, as having reference to other branches of this inquiry, to a possible affinity with the name of the patriarch, in the term _Noaaids_, applied by the Laplanders to their magicians (Pinkerton, i. 459, &c.); and to the term Koader_nicks_, applied by the Samoids to the same (_id._ 532). I own there might be danger in pushing the inquiry further, as I might even bring the patriarch Noah into contact and connection with Old Nick!