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ENGLISH AND KURDISH.

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A QUESTION FOR THE PHILOLOGISTS.

BY DR. A. MINGANA (OF THE RYLANDS LIBRARY,'

MANCHESTER).

It is well known that the English language belongs to the Indo-Eur opean, Aryan, or Indo Germanic Froup, and is thus aflated to the Teutonic, Italie, Hellenic, and Balto. Slavonic dialects, which. in their turn, are akin to Iranian ard some of the North Indian dialects.

THE WOODEN HOUSE, "STUNT."

little dealing with tribes foreign to themselves, although their predatory instinct sometimes marked them as the pest of neighbouring peoples: they have nearly always been ini "It was always yet," says Falstaff, dependent, although from the data "the trick of our English nation, if furnished by geographical atlases one they have a good thing, to make it is wrongly induced to believe that too common." That is what we they have alternately been Parthian, should do now in the wooden house Sasanian, Roman, Arab, and line if some of our inflators of Turk Apart from some tribal 'stunts" and "booms" could get songs, they have never had any liter their own wild way. A wooden ature worth mentioning. If, there house, if well built of good wood, fore, in the primitive language of may be quite a good house, with these tribes who belong to the Indo-points of its own and drawbacks of European family one finds a consider its own and our building by-laws able number of concrete words in have gone too far in banning it daily use which with slight and in altogether. But let nobody think significant varia fons are phonetically we are going to solve the whole identical with the corresponding housing question by building houses In opening any English dictionary words of another language, one is led of wood because they have seen which professes to give the derivato believe that at some period of attractive wooden houses in Alpine. tion of any word, one notices that their history there might have been valleys or on the verge of Canadian most of the concrete words are re- closer ties of relationship and more forests, or a few beautiful ancient ferred back to Old English, Nerse, and intimate linguistic connections bet ones in English towns, or because a other Teutonic languages, while ween the two than is generally sup- great many soldiers in training found most of the abstract words are reposed.

life tolerable in wooden huts during ferred back to Old French, Latin, and Towards the end of 1915. I was the war. To make a good house of Greek.

asked by the War Office to write a wood you must do what we cannot Besides the structure of a langu- practical English-Kurdish and do now; you must lavish the material age, it is thus its concrete words. English-Syraic vocabulary for the as our builders in wood did when the rather than its abstract words, that use of troops fighting in the Near Forest of Dean and the Forest of establish its kinship with other and Middle East. In performing Arden were forests still and fine oak languages.

this duty I noticed that many could pe had almost for the cutting. English does not stand alone in Kurdish words were almost similar Among bullding materials William possessing a double vocabulary. 10 their English equivalent. Morris placed stone first, timber Persian is in a similar position and collected many such roots to satisfy second, and brick third, and if for similar reasohs, for she, too, was a natural curiosity. I will give any man who knew his way in conquered by a foreign people at an below some of these roots for pur architecture would have wished early date in her history.

poses of comparison, but as English to revive building in timber it surely When the Semitic "Arabs con- philology is not my speciality, and would have been Morris. "I think,

CN as my only "authorities this he said, there is "nothing more querred Persia in the seventh Chris matter are the well-known works beautiful than a beautiful "wooden tian century they left on the of Webster, Skeat, Murray, house," but he came ruefully to the genius of her language a mark and others, I shall be thankful conclusion that "we must at present which she will печет obliterate

if a specialist in English will put the use of wood clean out of the drastic unless very

measures

he wrote we are taken. About two-thirds of the come forth and show the intrinsic question?" Since abstract and one-third of the concrete sons. I am preparing for a later with the

merits and demerits of my compari-į have proceeded pretty steadily process Of defore. terms of Persian are derived from study a complete list of these Perso- station, without compensatory affore. Arabic, although Arabic belongs to an Kardish terms, in which every word station, that has been going on all entirely different family. To establish will be discussed at some length, but over England since the Picts, or who affinity between two languages it is before venturing into a new sphere ever the oldest inhabitante were, necessary to neglect almost entirely of scientific groupings I most earnest made the first clearings among the the abstract words of both, because these were generally borrowed from ly appeal for a reasoned and healthy oak trees for their swine. During a more civilised nation endowed with criticism. The subject appears to the war the rate of this destruction a previously acquired literature.

me to be of importance in many became a gallop. The peoples who have more tenaci respects, and little did I think in ously preserved the purity of their wiling the Kurdish vocabulary that I was ushering British heroes into a language are reperally those who had less intercourse with the outside new philological school of the origin

of words world; for instance, is not Arabic although the latest in the field, the purest and the oldest of the Semitic languages because the Arabs bad in antiquity less dealing with foreign peoples than the Assyrians, Arameans, Hebrews, and Ethiopians ? (to) be bu, or buig

Within the Persian family there is

English. bad

Perso-Kurdish,

bad ** egg

hekk canin, or caria- to) can-

band band

better Petter bullock ballack

khai, orzu-khal chicken chucka chin

achin cough

a powerful and numerous clan, com monly called Kurds. These half-coal primitive Kurmanjs (as they call themselves) lead a distinct tribal life, and dwell mainly in the country known on the maps as Kurdistan, but their settlements extend as far west as Cilicia and Central Anotolia. In their long history they have had Clown Proods and prompt deliver no empire, although they struck

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independent blows for the overthrow of many empires; they have had.

cof, or cokh corna

corner- dale medali dark tark drop-dlop here hers jungle, v jungal Bowl

English. patch

Perso-Kurdish.

patch, or pat

run

send

rawin shend.

shiver

star

tag

shiwer (to be terrified) star

tak thunder, dunder

The list can be increased by scores of other words, which we deemed useless to put down for the present. must, however, add a finál remark.. In my comparisons I have noticed twa phonetical features worth men taning here: (a) the Perso Kurds have a certain dislike for words be ginning with W., which they often change lato Go, garn, for warm girm for worm,&c; (b) they abo apasopate the letter D at the end of many words.g., 120, for lad; chwor, for sword, &c."

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