Loss of words from the vocabulary of a language, 27, 98-100.
Louis, St., of France, as language-maker, 38.
love, 260.
Low German languages, 188, 210-11.
luna etc., 103, 104.
lunatic, 105, 130, 131.
Luther's influence on history of German language, 163.
-ly, 58-60, 63, 83, 124, 235.
Lyell, Sir Charles, referred to, 47 note.
magnet, 130.
Magyar—see Hungarian.
Mahratta language, 224.
Malayalam or Malabar language, 326.
Malay language, 338.
Malay-Polynesian family of language, 337-9.
Man, Isle of, its language, 190.
Man, sole possessor of language, 399, 438; difference of his mental capacity and action from that of the lower animals, 414-16, 438-40; the artificer of his own speech, 48, 401-3, 442-5; value of speech to him, 440-47.
Manchu language, 312, 313, 320; its written character, 313, 462.
Mandingo language, 346.
manumit, 130.
manure, 111.
Marsh, Mr. G. P., referred to, 211 note.
me, 196, 430.
mean, 263.
Melanesian family of languages, 339.
men, 79.
Mental action of men and animals, comparison of, 414-17, 438-40.
Mesopotamia, Semitic languages of, 295.
Mexico, language and culture of, 347, 349, 351; writing of, 451-2.
Middle High-German period and literature, 212.
Migration, effect of, on language, 202.
Minnesingers, 212.
mint, 130.
minute, 111.
Mishna, Rabbinic Hebrew work, 297.
Mithridates, work of Adelung etc., 4.
Mitsjeghian language, 355.
Mixture of language, 197-9; of elements in English language, 84, 143-4, 170, 185, 472-3.
Mixture of races, 374; its effect upon language, 160-61, 168, 374-6.
Mnemonic objects, as forerunners of writing, 450.
Modern Greek language, 221.
Mœso-Gothic language, 60, 199, 213, 235
Mohammed, arouser of the Arab race, 296.
money, 130, 131, 247-8.
Mongolian family—see Scythian.
Mongolian branch of Scythian languages, 311-12, 313, 320; its written character, 313, 462.
Monosyllabic family of languages, 330-37; monosyllabic class, 358-65.
Monosyllabism, primitive, of Indo-European language, 255-66, 279-86; secondary monosyllabism of English etc., 264, 279; compared with Chinese. 331, 472.
month, 104.
Moods of Indo-European verb, 268; of Semitic, 303.
moon, 103-5.
Moral terms derived from physical, 111-13.
Moravian language, 214.
Mordwinian language, 309.
Morphological correspondence as sign of genetic relationship, 291, 332, 357-8; systems of morphological classification, 358-67.
mother, 196.
mountain, 14.
Müller, Professor Max, quoted or referred to, vii, 4 note, 35, 51 note, 177 note, 180, 317, 360, 363, 427.
Mutes, class of articulations, 91; aspirated, 265 note.
Mutes, language of-see Deaf-mutes.
Nabatean literature, 298.
Names-giving, processes of; 25-6, 38-42, 103-31, 411-12, 424-6; different degrees of reflectiveness in, 121-4, are historical, and founded in convenience only, 127, 129; comparative ease of naming different classes of conceptions, 194-5.
Namollo language, 329.
Nasal articulations, 91.
National character as expressed in speech, 152.
Negative prefix, 292.
Negritos, language of, 339.
Nestorian people and language, 298.
Netherlands, language of, 211.
Newfoundland, 71-2.
New Guinea and neighboring islands, language of, 339.
