Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples : a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture : being the "Sprachvergleichung und urgeschichte" of Dr. O. Schrader / translated by Frank Byron Jevons from the second revised and enlarged German edition, with the sanction and co-operation of the author.

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1890
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Credit: Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples : a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture : being the "Sprachvergleichung und urgeschichte" of Dr. O. Schrader / translated by Frank Byron Jevons from the second revised and enlarged German edition, with the sanction and co-operation of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER IV. THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE INDO-GERMANIC PEOPLE. Pictet assumes Bactria—General Feeling in Favour of Asia—Latham tlie heterodox, attacks the Asiatic Hypothesis—Is Supported by Benfey and Geiger—Cuno's Argument in Favour of Eui-ope—The Lion's Witness—Hehn Ridicules Latham—Kiepert—Van den Gheyn—The Original Semitic Home : Kremer and Hommel—The Anthropologists' Contribution to the Discussion : Posche, Linden- schmit, Penka—The Finns : Tomasehek and Canon I. Taylor, 80 PART II. RESEARCH BY MEANS OP LANGUAGE AND HISTORY : ITS METHOD AND PRINCIPLES OF CRITICISM. CHAPTER L THE KINSHIP OF THE INDO-GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES. The Original Indo-Germanic Language—Its Differentiation into Dialects and its Expansion—Supposed Antiquity of Zend and Sanskrit and Inferences therefrom—The Original Indo-Germanic People— Linguistic Affinity and Racial Difference-Mixed Peoples—The Original Physical Type of the Indo-Germanic Race, . . . 107 CHAPTER IL LOSSES FROM THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE. The Probability of Considerable Losses from the Indo-Germanic Vocabu- lary—Consequences thereof—Suspicious nature of Negative Argu- ments about the Culture of Primitive Times—The Question of the Original Home in this Connection—Occasionally, however, the Uniform Absence of Names amounts to Proof : Fishes, Colours, Flowers, 116 CHAPTER IIL THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF INDO-GERMANIC EQUATIONS. Partial Coincidences in the Indo-Germanic Vocabulary may be due to : (1) Accident; (2) Differences of Dialect in the Original Language ; (3) New Formations Common to Separate Groups of Languages— Pedigree Theory or Transition (Undulation) Theory—The Affinities of the Teutonic and the Greek Vocabulary—Common European Culture—Difficulties of the Question Treated, .... 122 CHAPTER IV. THE FORM OF WORDS. The Phonetic Form of Equations that are Available for the History of Culture—Limitations in the Employment of Words Identical in Root, but differing in the Formation of their Suffixes—Caution even against Equations which completely Correspond—Original Mean- ing of certain Suffixes—Onomatopoeia, 133