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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 Y. It inay be obseryed here that sometimes there is an interchange of meanings between a sound and the one preceding or following it; sometimes L has the meaning of R, or H of L, or Y of W, or G of K.
S and W are joined into one word in Siw, to bind, the idea expressed being the binding together of things. It has been used with the intuitive value attached to it. in Flu, to fly, swim, to foat. The Sanskrit Rasu, origin intuitively considered, would mean the movement of things, and the Assyrian, Ris, beginning, seems to have the same idea embodied in it. The: root Al, to burn, is intuitive, but the light seems to have suggested the word rather than the heat. Knowledge is the reflection in the mind of what is passing in the world, Gnu, to know, is a combination of the sounds for reflection and combination. Than, thinness would seem to be the result of long continued growth. Gol, a very common word for late, means“reflection of light," and the glistening appearance of ice probably suggested a word, to freeze, Gal, a word of the same class is Gea, to glow. Tar, to pass over, has sounds of which the intuitive value seems to be “ascent through air.” Thu, to swell, to be strong, and Fath, to fly, are examples of the use of Ith.
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