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THE
DISCOVERY
OF THE
SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-Street-Square.
SCIENCE OF LANGUAGES;
IN WHICH ARE SHOWN
THE REAL NATURE OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH;
THE MEANINGS WHICH ALL WORDS CARRY IN THEMSELVES,
AS THEIR OWN DEFINITIONS;
AND THE ORIGIN OF WORDS, LETTERS, FIGURES, ETC.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
The feminine and plural of mon, ton, son, explained. Mes, tes,
and ses, not plural numbers. Notre and votre do not
come from the Latin words noster and vester. No lan-
guage derived from another. Notre and votre explained.
The Latin pronouns nos and vos accounted for. These
words are not plural forms in French, as is supposed. The
article la. What does ea mean. Man, woman, womb,
&c., accounted for. The several words, woman, womb,
fæmina, femme, wife, weib, and womb, shown to be one and the same word Page 1-15
Nous accounted for. The observations belonging to nos will
apply to vos, the supposed plural of votre. The letter u.
Inquiry respecting it. The character n. Its origin when
bearing this form N discovered. The English word one
accounted for. Its pronunciation, &c. Orthoepists. Their
limited knowledge of letters. A, an, one, shown how they
signify one. N and V the same letter. The verbal English
termination en and the French termination eu. How it
happens that the French syllables, in, im, ain, aim, ein,
and eim, are all pronounced exactly alike 15-25
The French and English words, on and over. The os in nos and
vos again referred to. The is in nos (no is) accounted for.
The English pronoun 1. The French pronoun Je. The
origin of the letter J discovered. Z is for is. Proof given.
Zeal and Jealousy the same word. All words made out of
the same few radical syllables
25-32