Note 69 — Chapter II · THE NATURE AND SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

See “A Comparative Vocabulary of the Barma, Malayu, and T’hai Languages,” published at Serampore in 1810. A Siamese compound like lúk-mai, “fruit,” literally, “son of wood,” is an exact equivalent of the Hebrew “son of Belial” for “sinner,” or “master of hair” for “hairy.”