The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-01-13
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TILE ENGLISH LINGUIGE.
PROF. CHAS. T. WRIGHT.

What language was ut first taken as the
mother tongue Of the lnd1-European ian
%GIgr:
:i-Why is it important to know this original
I-WHaf vas the characteristic of early
wur. on iiIn2uIgc:
) Whli is comparative philo,ogy? Its i'm
f;-,yiat re c-sity presented itself TO Engli h
ruler" aiIu AZ .,iUHurCS i'll India
: what are the Y. das: In wh2c language
S'-Wiar strange discovery did students OF
:-,;jye a .<eIcn Of the Aryuns and their
MY what ,nf.aus 10 l,ai.cl rgs : establish
aEc nj rciall"rS:'IS bltwIen ps"Pes no"
StcusiuGly distinct:
iI-Iracc the naiivC names or Persia, ard
name the modern peoples of AryNm origin:
We shsl: now study fer while the proofs III
the relationships OF til" lead NJ modern L@-
ruagos. having always i'll view or main puf-
pos, the sources, direct anU remote oi our
own English.
is one OF lrc3GS. The wonderful instruments
Of human speech, ami intercourse, and literal
tsir,a. are VIVA: have guided students OF E9th
history ANA "co.Dparativc laiEua2e,' III this
scarcli for tEt. fa-dwIV kimSiinS Of our Asiatic
and European progenitors: $780,, 49,. -.
The str :n.- similarity - SGH"6 ana pr" en-
iS:,l,y hrt.srcu these words ~ ChcSc d HcrcTrt
tongues may be en- by the comparison OF
t.,cEc words tn El>tIECS.
IN r4.Liau this tcs. we shall arrange tho
words III IL Itiir in the order Of Chronological
a,yr:orrr,.n; :.f. rs far rs known to the most
-,,i,thI, js0t IFS ana rhllni, HiStS, ny he O:Gt
u westward TigrGtl.n, ii being una, fotHod' OF
,.iuiS", these we're ~ some cases cJhItinpor-
Aurt,.S.
t,nIv a lew striking examples can b. gigen in
til. sps t., all tied 10 this =, hut iihcicnt
..in"Cr cat @! tliotiS";iS II convince Tue most
.i;cptill student Of i,rrc q! the theory 81
II common ancestry iuf the words presented,
and not merely tn ~ RS themselves, bIt Oh
h" n2tie,.s i>ng y ca either u Sl""%h CT III Il
fixed iitgr" .r.IC
fiha T,.,tE,. Wi i.stc TINT The irgt word OF
each r.gregEapn pr seats the ie&nlng mao,
EuroE'an languages. WITH the worn se't"Icu
for Illustration i,l-csd at the end o tie para
graph ,v:iIr i'll ihC last pari graph is found the
English Icriyativr.; TINS the English WORD
3,!ctttr il TIE last paragraph, iie'nE the Inca
descendant { tne sam hrl; WuiW. III the h;SI
u trrgrnph the Grat word each paragraph eN
I.:i.tlrg tie rCmarkah similarity IN md ant
for-,' extending through 9 linguistic sketch Of
sansksit-Mat:Y. Bhratar, Pitar, Fri, Tuarn
NaktH Hul!t;lS. -
Pc.sitn-M;Idcr, B-asler, P;.dar, sih, Tu
jirycE-> Mater. Phrater, Pate, Treis, Tu
Iatifl-N:.trr. Frazier. Patcr. Tres, tn. NoX.
CeriC-Mhthai", Drat!'l&r, Aither, III, Ihu
German Nuttcr, Rrudcr, Water, Drei. Du
NHcht, Tncl;tcr.
Sia[ onic- MatIla, Bra;r, Patr, Tri, Ty, Nee
saxon -M"der, Brothar, Fadcr, Thri, Thu
| Mint. D0hter.
Kag,isl Mother, Brother, Father, Three
Thea. r IL lit. Daughter.
| Sirihin1 rs thCs reScGn OlanCcs are, they ar
! still moro 50 wien mad manifest by comrari
| soAs between words of the IculcHIe,nr Ger
| ni:l i, iaug i:aGcS which are later DEVELOPMENT
Of he s:t!,lc ct.l Aryr ancestral tongue, or us
might b. "pIy called, oar linguistic great
| grandmother.
must Keep ii III nd that tlin languages it con
/ tuias are Of the SAINT rtu:nnic branch, an
| closely r;..4ted TO early English. or Anglo
! Saxon: also that they are only tie diuerei
d. visions Of the seco1d - car westward migra
| tory wave Of .tryaUs. who PASSED on sii
| farther toward tie Atlautic, the tir't or Ccti
| way. and were themselves i'll turn fO!lOwc
| Dy the westward Crowdipg $ldys.
| .iha following Gothic languag. il the nam
| .:ivca to the most ancient form of the Gel
| manic, spoken before the fail Of the Roma
Empire in the West, and OF which the ode:
existing fragm mt is thought to be a Goth
| Bible 500 years:
,sothic-Slinus Hauhs Qu:mln, Ba il
| Stoirno, SUITS, SVistar, Taihun.
IceIandic,Sonr, Ha, Kcma, Betra, Sttrn'
Sorr, Systir, Till.
SweGish-son Hog. Kolnma, Battra, stjern
Sot. SISTER, lilo.
| Danish--SOn, Hoi, komme, Bedre, Stlern
So, Soster, IT,.
German-Sohn, Hoch, kommen, Besse
Sterne, SusZ, Semester Zehn.
Dutch Zoon, Hoog, Kolnen, Beteren, Ste
Goet, custer, Iien.
Anglo SaXon-Sunu, Hcah, Cuman, Beterla
| Steoroa, Swe,e, Swyster, Ten.
English-Sor, High, Come, Better, Sta
| Sweet. Sister, Ten.
such rcsemblances us displayed in the DIT
| ceiling paragraphs. il accidental. are astoun
ing coinc ,deuces. The only conclusion phil
Iogists can reHch. is that of common sour'
for all this great train OF human modes
speech; ana there is opened to us, as earnc
students, a field Of stuGy, rich in interest ar
| beauty, as we strive to do more than mere
use our classic English, as common hack III
| servant, to do cur thoughtiess binding.