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wide air, and R, air. The root An, endless, is intuitive, also Pu, threshed or purified, P being used here to express division, Ku, to sharpen, is a word of the same class as Ak, to pierce. In Kar, to make, there are combined the sounds for hardness and movement; in Taks, hew, the sounds for, to raise, hardness and number, the S, referring to what is bewn away or divided. In Mak, to pound to macerate, there is the suggestion of ending with something hard. The united sounds of falling and hardness are in Kad, to fall; and of division an hardness in Pak, to come, and Pik, to cut. The letters which form Shap to chop, mean to cut and divide things. Other words of the same class are Sak and Skar. In Sa, to sow the prevailing idea seems to have been number. Swid, to sweat, has the sounds for number, water and rolling down. Possibly the idea of Swa, to toss, was taken from seeing things tossed about upon the waves as Fath, to spread out, may have been from observation of the aerial growth of tree branches. Swal, to boil up, is clearly intuitive, as well as Wam, to spit out. Other intuitive words are Yu, to bind, and Yas, to gird. Wa, meant to bind, either because it was observed that water acted as a girdle to all things or through some confusion of meaning between it and V. It may be observed here that sometimes the re is an interchange of
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