INTRODUCTION. Y view of the English, as a Teutonic tongue,* is, that the bulk of it was formed from about fifty primary roots, of such endings and beginnings as the sundry clippings that are still in use by the English organs of speech. I have reached these roots through the English provincial dialects and other Teutonic speech-forms, and I deem them the primary ones, inasmuch as, by the known course of Teutonic wordbuilding and word-wear, our sundry forms of stem-words might have come from them, but could not have yielded them. The roots are the following, in which the star shows the place of a variable voicing :† * I call my view of Teutonic roots TIW, as the name of the god from which the Teutonic race seem to have taken their name. The best voicing with which one can supply the clipping of the roots in reading is i, as Bing for B*NG, since it gives to the root that form which is most usual in Teutonic tongues. |