Germanic and Celtic elements in, 168, 169, 374.
Fricative sounds, in alphabet, 91.
Frisian language, 211.
-ful, suffix, 57, 73.
Fulah language, 346.
Fusion of dialects into one, 161; causes determining character of result, 168-9.
Future in Romanic languages, 118; in Anglo-Saxon and English, 119; in Indo-European language, 268.
G, the letter, derivation of, 465.
Gabelentz, H. C. von der, referred to, 339 note.
Gadhelic group of Celtic languages, 190, 217.
Gaelic languages, 190, 217.
Galla language, 341.
Gallatin, Albert, referred to, 349 note.
galvanism, 39, 129.
Gaulish languages of France etc., 216-17.
Geëz or Ethiopic language, 297, 299.
Gender, grammatical, in Indo-European languages, 77-8, 273-4; lost in English, 78; in other languages, 275; gender in Semitic verbs, 303; nouns, 304; in Hamitic languages, 342; gender wanting in Scythian languages, 319; in other families, 342-3.
Genetic relationship of languages, 186, 290; their classification by it—see Classification.
Genius of individuals, its effect on language, 123.
genteel, gentile, gentle, 111.
Geology, general analogy between and linguistic science, 47; analogies in special points, 62, 184, 253, 265, 382.
Georgian language, 354-5.
German language, history of, 162-4.
Germanic languages, 187-9; their classification, age, literatures, etc., 210-13; permutation of consonants in, 97-8; verbal conjugation of, 80-82, 269-70.
Germanic race, its part in history, 231.
Gesture as means of expression, 422-3, 431.
get, 108.
Gonds, language of, 327.
Gothic language, 213.
-graph, 140.
Greece, founder of Indo—European preeminence, 230-31.
Greek language, 190, 220-22.
green, 125.
Greenland, language of, 350.
Grimm, Professor Jacob, referred to, 4, 5; his law of permutation of consonants in Germanic languages, 97-8.
Grout, Rev. L., referred to, 344 note.
grow, 115.
Guess, George, inventor of Cherokee alphabet, 461.
Gypsy language, 225.
H, the letter, derivation of, 465.
Habit, the ground of ability in language, 117, 147-8 282.
Hadley, Professor James, referred to, 84 note, 213 note.
Hamitic family of languages, 341-3.
hand, 115.
Harmonic sequence of vowels in Scythian languages, 318, 362.
have, 117-18, 199.
head, 107, 115.
Hebrew language, 294, 296, 297, 306, 308; its alphabet, 462.
Heldensagen, Middle High-German, 212.
Heliand, Old Saxon poem, 211.
help, 30, 81, 82.
Heyse, Professor K. W. L., referred to, 427.
Hieratic, later Egyptian, writing, 455.
Hieroglyphic writing, 450-59; of Egypt, 452-5; of China, 455-6; hieroglyphic origin of cuneiform writing, 459.
High-German languages, 163-4, 188, 210, 211-12.
hill, 14.
Himalayas, languages of, 337.
Himyaritic language, 297, 299.
Hindi language, 224.
Hindustani language, 224.
Historical spelling in English, 94, 467.
Hodgson, Mr. B. H., referred to, 337 note.
home, 133.
Homer, poems of, 221.
Homonyms in English, 334-5, 387; in Chinese, 334; how distinguished in Chinese writing, 456-7.
horse, 195.
Hottentots, language of, 341; clicks in it, 345.
Human race, its antiquity, 205, 382-3; its unity not determinable by language, 383-94.
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, referred to, 5, 367.
Hungarian language, 191, 309, 320, 361; its literature, 314; traces of polysynthesis in, 349.
Huzvaresh or Pehlevi language, 223.
