30 TUti INDIAN ANTIQUARY . [Jastpaat, J8J&, bt evident, accordmgly, thul if the 5fch farm were identical with the Hebrew ^ren die vocalization 1 4 tW Ioi perfect would have been 0^1 with u, u!ul nut ckaij with « j consequently wb must blunder too Arabic in/a'al aa having only one Mingle preformstivu, the : , herein reseuibliag th*i 5th form, whioh T combining with tlm par- ticle of the causative, has produced the Hebrew Eity In the 10th form likewise, apart from the prosthetic afof", which is wanting in Salman, it, mir be observed that the preformativa no in composed of the causative ci which enp- plautu then in the dialnitK, and of the reflective n, ho that this fbnn answers to theRubrcw Hitpti'itL The following table presents ft view of the moat-used forms in the Semitic languages, and the arrangement of thii voices from the simple to the compound :— Original theme or Pal [}*? .'inc. ial reflective theme. Reciprocal theme...... f Causative theme , , Simple. Oaasat. ant! !t*fl tLtcme.,' Taiwftt. and Keeipr. Uttmo. Keeipr. and ReH. theme ... Emphatic. l-ut<rgetic. ' hm w (.r Kth. ?:il.. ?i. %rc to (Aram. ? Asa.) pi (Ar.Eth.8ab. ?) Sm (Aram.)
- wne (Arab- Sab. Ass.) ^ (Aw.)
™ (Ar. Am.) t^ <A ,. ., Wi (Heb,Soh. Arab. Aram. BiL) 903 ~'~ r - '.LXL (Aram. Ass. Eth, Min. A (Eth. Sah. dial a. S»b. du Hailr, dial.) T~ — "I fSttm (llch.) " ?strc *7s|re (Aram. Am. Eta, Miuasn (Eth. Sab. dial ?) ] S^ ai.dHadx.aiaL) L(Er», .^J UI |J hm* (Hob. Sub.) ^tera (Kabbiuic Hcb. Asa. Aram ) Ar we have just seen, tine Semitic languages fchrOO letters n. 5, and * (c, *r) sometimes aimprj and prMnetimiMcnmbiijefl. in order to form derived voice*, for the purpose of indicating an action which strikes by its external i liticro, which are visibly pronoTuiual thetucs, serving also for the infloolion or uuum, and rflHAtttQfiajf a real link between. Uicn eatcgoruwi of words, show that tha verb and wan rmgmiilr/oonfiijod in thHiuguutia oancepiion of the Semite* Tka most powerful instrument used in these language* to dv uafe between the verbal and the nominal idea lu lonicaccent, so wall conserved in liubroir, thu.tr verb— knMt. fen "to wound/ 1 noun ftp, MA "a wound r wrh-^uhll, !rg « to i WMIW grwtf," noun— SjS yodel (yetfl) " fp-paintw j*' vrrb— tpuiuu pp "to grasp," noon— j-$ "y," Semitic uatioBA, whieh manifest lOdBlieato a pervuption in pioturiug the movuuenui of tlie xoind that produce actio j mi to the juaiuier of indicating the tmoom netiontt. Ther have not eeneeivt-d of time u* a deUnnine<t(iii!l llxcd jieriod, btttapfiear rather to lit iu a point always nx-odinfj, cann«>t lw j which may bo spoken of in a relative aeuse only. Accord. tic rnrbwpofisewt arijrinally no ipoctftl Jiaiignation to dlNtingnuh iim* m Um m aenae n i 1 1 .-,..,, rj . l-'mm a Semitic poi ni of thr- namoa P<ut and Z'Wurc, appbad by | grommuriani* to the chief verbal Inflnlion-. inaccurate; Uum fornm in dkntv neither anabsu- lnt« l'a«t nor an nhsobtv Futnn- j Hay merely tletignato a relative Haj ding U a distnn t paet and a dwrnut fatu r lM ua ull:rf.-ei hM < dmuded of every idea of tune, are more con v«i Ptrfiet noinla on t the act as eonrplctod in an abeojuto alnin whilst the J itesignau-s the same tu a
