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Adam, his onomothesia, 10 note
theories about, 47
Cowper's lines on, id.

Egles, story of, 102
Ælian, quoted, 74
Alphabet, origin of, 134
Hebrew, 136
Greek, id.

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analogy of its origin to that of
language, 137, 192-196
Analogists and Anomalists, 22,
184, 257-263

universality of Analogist views,
264 foll.
Analogy, the part it plays in lan-
guage, 204

the source of knowledge, 218
of sound and sight, 81

Animals, the earliest objects to re-
ceive names, 16

Animal names, classes of, 23
generally omomatopoetic, 24
in Australian, 25

in New Zealand, id. note

in Algonquin, id.

in Chinese, 26

in Sanskrit, 26-28

in Hebrew, 29

in Egyptian, id.

in American languages, 30
in various Argots, 31, note
from observed qualities, 30
formed by misapplication,

31-34

Anomalists. See Analogists
Anthropomorphism, 8

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Antiphrasis, 254

Argots, their philological import-

ance, 35

abound in onomatopoeia, 36

their character, 35

various names for, 235

deal in metaphor, 236

Victor Hugo on, id., 283 note
Armenian merchants, 72

Art, a language addressed to the
eye, 72
Artificial languages, 37
Atbash, 270 note
Augustine, quoted, 8, 185
Aulus Gellius, quoted, 102

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CANNON, 188

Cassiodorus, quoted, 75
Cat, 146, 176

Catachresis, 213

Childhood of mankind, 13

Chinese writing, 192-196, 198

names for animals, 26

metaphors, 216 note

attempt at continuous analysis,

294

Clarion, 188

Claudius, his antisigma, 37

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Onomatopoeia, can be used for
things which emit no sound,

204
Onomatopoeias, but few necessary,

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their function, id.

used by wild children, 20
abound in savage languages,

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- reflex, 27

the widely various forms they
assume, 112-114

are ideal reflections, 114
for thunder, 115

modified or rejected when they
have fulfilled their function,
128

suggested roots, 129

not few in number, 131
dictionaries of, 132

the only intelligible roots, 133
most animals' names are, 140
and birds, 141 note

are not sterile, 152
their variety, 153

are the sound-cells in which
speech can germinate, 155
found in numerals, 162
their dignity, 166

their use in poetry, 168

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SANCTIUS, quoted, 100

Science, martyrs of, 7 note
Sensation, nature of, 60
Senses, variety of, 206

one sensorium, 207 and note
interchange of, 208–210
analogy between, 211

Simonides, 136

Soul, 220

analogies for, 221

Sound, the best medium of expres-
sion, 79

elements of vocal, 86

must have had an original con-
nection with sense, 121-122,
286

symbolic power of, 186

its universality, 205

and light, 209

Sparrow, 145

Understanding, 6

ATHEK, referred to, 116
Verbs, 197

Voice, 83

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its mechanical production, 84
its influence, 83 note
Voss, quoted, 75

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