Note 25 — Chapter XI · Folklore Philosophy

As regards the Aryan nations, we seem to have a clue to an answer in the interesting group of Aryan words in point, from which I select the following:—Irish ainm, ‘a name,’ plural anmann; Old Welsh anu, now enw, also ‘a name’; Old Bulgarian imen (for *i̯enmen, *anman); Old Prussian emnes, emmens, accusative emnan; and Armenian anwan (for a stem *anman)—all meaning a name. To these some scholars25 would add, and it may be rightly, the English word name itself, the Latin nomen, the Sanskrit nāman, and the Greek ὔνομα; but, as some others find a difficulty in thus grouping these words, I abstain from laying any stress on them. In fact, I have every reason to be satisfied with the wide extent of the Aryan world covered by the other instances enumerated as Celtic, Prussian, Bulgarian, and Armenian.