development of a purely phonetic alphabet, 460-63.
Phonetic spelling for English, 467-70.
Phrases, formation of, 116.
Physical causes, their effect on language, 138, 152-3.
Physical evidence of race, compared with linguistic, 370-82, 397.
Physical sciences, analogies of linguistic science with, 46-7, 52.
Physical structure of men does not determine their language, 371-2.
Physical terms converted to intellectual and moral, 111-13.
Picture-writing, 450-53; its analogy with onomatopoetic speech, 451.
Plan of this work, 8-10.
-ple, 62
please, 113.
Plural, irregular and regular in English, 78-9, 82-3; in Indo-European language, 272-3; in Scythian, 319; pluralizing words in Chinese, 335.
Polabian language, 214.
Polish language, 191, 214.
Polynesia, languages of, 337-40.
Polysynthetic structure of American languages, 348-9; of Basque, 354; traces of it in Hungarian, 349; polysynthetic class, 363.
pono (Latin), derivatives of in English, 120-21.
Pooh-pooh theory of origin of language, 426.
Portuguese language, 189, 219.
possess, 112.
Possessive case in English, 77, 82, 274.
post, 107.
Pott, Professor A. F., referred to, 5.
Prakrit languages, 225.
preach, 262.
Prefixes, their rarity in Indo-European language, 292; their prevalence in Polynesian, 339; in African, 344-5.
Prepositions, in Indo-European language, 274, 276, 292.
Present tense in Indo-European language, special theme of, 269.
priest, 102.
Process of linguistic growth, what it is, 154.
Processes pf linguistic growth—see Change, linguistic.
Pronominal roots, Indo-European, 258-9; whether primitive, 261.
Pronouns, their nature, 258; derivation, in Indo-European language, 258-9; declension, 275; part played by pronouns in form-making, 266, 271, 290, 303, 319; pronouns as evidences of Indo-European unity, 194; examples, 196.
Proper names, derivation of, 105.
propose, 112.
Provençal language, 164, 218, 219.
Punic language, 297, 298.
Pushto language—see Afghan.
Q, the letter, derivation of, 465, 466.
queer, 113.
Quippos, Peruvian substitute for writing, 450.
R, the letter, derivation of, 465.
Rabbinic Hebrew, 297.
Race, relation of language to, 14, 160-61. 371-2; value of language as evidence of, 370-76, 381.
Races, different advantage gained from language by, 446-7.
Rask, Professor Rasmus, referred to, 5.
Rate of linguistic change, its variety and the circumstances affecting it, 31-2, 137-9, 148-53.
read, 80.
Reason and instinct, 438-9.
red tape, 125.
Reduplication, in Indo-European verb, 267-8; in Polynesian, 338-9.
Reflectiveness, different degrees of, in the processes of word-making, 40-41, 50-51, 121-4.
Reflexive or middle forms of Indo-European verbs, 268.
reign, 468.
Relational and auxiliary words, 117-20; in monosyllabic languages, 335-7.
Relationship, names of, as signs of Indo-European unity, 195; examples, 196.
Relative words, their derivation, 114.
reliable, 40-41.
Renan, M. Ernest, referred to, vii. note, 177 note, 284-6.
reproach, 113.
Rhæto-Romanic language, 189, 218.
right, 113.
Rig-Veda, 226.
Romaic, or Modern Greek, language, 221.
Romanic languages, their origin, 165-8, 189; age, literature, etc., 218-19; futures of, 118.
romantic, 131.
Roots, monosyllabic, the germs of Indo-European language, 255-66, 279-86; their sufficiency, 257; their division into pronominal and verbal, 258-9,
