Note 66 — Chapter XX · THE LANGUAGES OF THE KILIMA-NJARO DISTRICT.
Reading edition
Such as in Latin where the vowel “a” is particularly characteristic of the final terminations of feminine nouns, and reappears in most of the corresponding pronouns and adjectives, as in such a phrase as this:—
“Illa ancilla est bona.” Here the concord is as apparent as in the tongues we have been quoting.