. Introduction to the natural history of language . etainedin book), the ch is but another instance of the palatalisingtendency already observed in thatch, watch. On the otherhand, given the English tooth (once toiitJi), we postulate byGrimms Law a primitive Indo-European form containingthe consonants d-nt. Looking thence to Greek and Latin,and applying the phonetic rules of those languages (whichin this instance do not change either consonant), we aresatisfied with Greek o-hovr- {o-doiit-), Latin dent-. For the sake of clearness we may tabulate a fewexamples of the process indicated :— (I) En
. Introduction to the natural history of language . etainedin book), the ch is but another instance of the palatalisingtendency already observed in thatch, watch. On the otherhand, given the English tooth (once toiitJi), we postulate byGrimms Law a primitive Indo-European form containingthe consonants d-nt. Looking thence to Greek and Latin,and applying the phonetic rules of those languages (whichin this instance do not change either consonant), we aresatisfied with Greek o-hovr- {o-doiit-), Latin dent-. For the sake of clearness we may tabulate a fewexamples of the process indicated :— (I) English (2) Original consonantsaccording to GrimmsLaw and sub-laws (3) Greek or Latin natural derivative from (2) yoke *i---g JLat. iugU7n (Gk. {vyov {zugon) guest * gh - - st Lat. hostis gall *gh--l (Lat. fel \Gk. x^^V {chole) thatch {thak) *t---g JLt. tego \ Gk. Tcyo? itegos) harvest ( haerfest) * k - rp tLt carpoGk. KapTTos {karpos) feather *p--t /Lt. peto (fly to)\Gk. TTiTOfiaL (petomat) Phonetic Laws; Grimm s LawOr conversely:— 327. If for the English words in each case we seek the German,it will be remembered that the dentals only are in for the consonants affected by Grimms Law in tkak (t/iaJc/i),/eat/ier, ten, sweat, we shall expect in German d k (later d--ch, Dach), f--d {Feder), z--h {zeJin), sw - - z{schwizzen). With inquiry directed in this way, exceedingly interest-ing correspondences of words are to be discovered, as maybe judged from the few examples already given. In conclusion, as some practical assistance to the testingof the original relationship of English, German, and classicalwords, wherever Grimms Law is in point, we may makethe following fuller tabulation :— 328 Natural History of Language Greek Latin Early Teutonic (and English) High German. Second Shifting in dentals [k c[tt P *k*P {a) ih^ { (b) {c) \ with unchangedVerners Law in g skd st, pt, hi\ b sp ) d (but sf) fy gm4s d \^ b *d*b ik {ch when palatalise
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