Note 78 — Chapter II · THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF SPEECH.
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See Gesenius, Lehrgebäude, p. 479. Ewald’s Hebrew Grammar, § 201. “The Mandschou is most like the Semitic here; in it the origin is still plainer, since ama means father, eme mother, according to the uniform distinction of a as the stronger, and e as the weaker vowel.”—Renan, Hist. des Langues Sémitiques, p. 452. Rawlinson’s Herodotus, i. 481.