The Affinity Between the Hebrew Language and the Celtic : Being A
: THE AFFINITY THE HEBREW LANGUAGE THE CELTIC: A COMPARISON BETWEEN HEBREW AND THE GAELIC LANGUAGE, OR THE CELTIC OF SCOTLAND. THOMAS STEATTON, M.D. Edin. E.iV. Third Edition. EDINBURGH MACLACHAN AND STEWART, SOUTH BRIDGE. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. PLYMOUTH: W. BRENDON AND SON. 1872. Price Two Shillings. ^r- 7 V^* £j£__^ ^-^^< j~Af. "/z -, /, , gW&fa^ THE AFFINITY BETWEEN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE AND THE CELTIC: BEINO A COMPARISON BETWEEN HEBREW AND THE GAELIC LANGUAGE, OR THE CELTIC OF SCOTLAND. THOMAS STKATTON, M.D. Edin., Dep. Inspector-Gen., R.N. Third Edition. EDINBURGH: MACLACHAN AND STEWART, SOUTH BRIDGE. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. PLYMOUTH : W. BR.ENDON AND SON. 1872. ; SIR ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, K.C.B., M.D. Edin., HONORARY PHYSICIAN TO THE QUEEN, Sir, As that branch of Medicine called Physiology includes an account of the different races of mankind, and as a description of the various divisions of the human family has to he illustrated chiefly by referring to the languages spoken by them, there is some reason for saying that the affinity of languages is a subject within the wide area of Medical Inquiry. In 1833 I drew up a short Comparative Vocabulary of Hebrew and Gaelic. In 1810 this was printed at the end of my Comparative Vocabulary of Greek and Gaelic. In 1870 it was reprinted without any alteration. After 1833 or 1840 I did not look into the subject again till November, 1871, when, after a few days, I made the discovery that by taking away the first part of many Hebrew words the next syllable, or the next two syllables, resembled in sound and meaning a word in Gaelic.
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