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Roots . ! 1 « to desire . Vh to protect . 1 ^ 1 to manifest . 3 ? to flow forth , ¦ ito order , jp to adjust . ? V to sound . bp a noise .
Derivatives . nrm to love . ^> rm to pitch a tent , in ^ to shine . am yellow , shining oil . VT 19 pure . jro to adorn . *? nif to shout with joy . br \ p a crowd of people .
3 ; The independent power of the letter T seems to me to denote union , connexion or a tying , and when inserted between two letters forming a root , it generally signifies hypocrisy , rashness or absurdity :
Roofs . ni * a swelling . 7 ** power , fi * sorrow . DT to compare , nt to dart about . * in to penetrate . b 2 to enclose . ~ 4 V The letter * denotes power or lettera forming a root , it generally maligftant dispositions : R&ots . n « to swell with desire ffc * a mist . n « ahl where ? b& power . &K to sustain . b * to roll . pi to beat .
Derivatives . ai ** a conjuror . b \ & presumption . p « idolatry . D 11 crime . Ill the fly god . 11 n to propose a riddle . DID an owl . energy , and when inserted between two signifies power or energy influenced by Derivatives . V ** to swell with hatred . * VR calamity . H' « a bird of prey , a merlin . ^? K a mighty one . D >« terrible . ^» J to dance around . p > n a battery .
It should also be observed here , that these servile * , when inserted > have not only th $ significations attributed to them * but they also possess the powerful properties of converting nouns into verbs ^ , acy ^ ctives , & £ ., and vice versft . This observation is capable of receiving abundant and decisive illustrations if aecegsary , but I shall not trespass upon the pages of your valuable work with any examples . It would be a useful and valuable £ mploynient to ascertain ajl the real ptiinnwez in the language to fix upon their genuine and primary significations ; and to shew the independent mid , relative powers of all the letters called serviles when used in composition , either singly or alone , and iti every state of combination . And tliis is the more necessary , as these subjects have hitherto remained in impenetrable darkness . I flatter i » yself that I here led < h « J wayi by shewing tliat all words having * , n , l > \ maerted , tlwnt g ^ generally t ^ mMm ^ d as xoqtob we ji »
rettlity derivatives , and also by pointing out their independent powers and the effects they have upon elementary words . I will go a step farther . The elementary words in the " language are few ; many words besides the classes referred to are derivatives ; and it is possible so to analyze the language , that all the remaining elementary words may be ascertained , and their respective derivatives judiciously arranged beneath them , accordiiu ? to the grand laws of association . This has been happily done in the Welsh language by nay excellent friend W . O . Tuffhe , Esq ., ia his noble and herculean Welsh Dictionary , and partly so in the Greek , by the learned l 5 r . Jones , in his admirable Grammar of that language . Apply the same principles to Hebrew , and it will shine forth in all its sublime energy and finfahed simplicity . WILWAM ^ ROBERT . « v ' ¦ . . . . . . . « ' ' '
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57 & ' Hints fm * & Hehrete- £ ngltih Lexicon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/10/
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