Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development

763. MS. of the Leipzig University Library, Suppl. 7. fol. 30 recto.

764. Yâḳût. III. 92; Krehl, Vorislam. Religion des Araber, p. 12 etc. See also Ewald, History of Israel, I. 272. note 4.

765. See Frankel’s Monatsschrift für jüd. Geschichte, II. 273. See on assonance of names, Zeitschr. d. D.M.G. XXI. 593.

766. E.g. Ḥamâsâ, p. 221; compare Zeitsch. d. D.M.G., 1849, III. 177.

767. See Gutschmid, l.c. p. 87.

768. In Ewald’s Jahrb. für bibl. Wissenschaft, 1853, V. 139. note 53.

769. Gesenius, Hebrew Grammar, edited by Rödiger, § 141; Ewald, Ausführl. Lehrb. der. Heb. Spr. § 282. c.

770. Paul Hunfalvy in the monthly magazine Magyar Nyelvőr, 1874, III. 202.

771. Ibid., 1873, II. 179.

772. Rückert, l.c., p. 62. v. 18.

773. Such as Ḥamzâ al-Iẓfahânî; compare Yâḳût, I. 292–3, 791. 20; III. 925, 629. 18 sq., IV. 683. 10. and my Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachgelehrsamkeit bei den Arabern, Vienna 1871–3, no. I. p. 45 and no. III. p. 26.

774. Leviticus rabbâ, sect. 12: ôthô hâ-ʿêṣ sheâkhal mimmennû Âdâm hâ-rîshôn ʿanâbhîm hâyâh.

775. Ibn Iyyâs, in the book Badâʿi al-zuhûr fî waḳâʿi al-duhûr, Cairo 1865, p. 83: see my article Zur Geschichte der Etymologie des Namens Nûḥ in Zeitsch. d. D. M. G., 1870, XXIV. 209.

776. Ibn al-Sikkît, p. 19, al-Jauharî, s. v. fṭḥl. On the proverbial longevity of the lizard see Kâmil, ed. W. Wright, p. 197. 18; al-Damîrî, II. 34; al-Jauharî, s. v. ḥsl; Burckhardt’s Reisen in Syrien, note by Gesenius in the German translation, p. 1077.

777. Rosenzweig, III. 465.

778. See A. von Kremer, Culturgeschichtliche Streifzüge auf dem Gebiete des Islams, Leipzig 1873.

779. See Kitâb alʿikd, MSS. of the Imperial Hofbibliothek, Vienna, A.F., no. 84, vol. I. pp. 188 sq. The data bearing on this subject I have collected and published in a essay on the Nationality-question in Islâm, written in Hungarian, Buda-Pest 1873.

780. See al-Nawawî’s Commentary on Muslim’s Collection of Traditions, ed. Cairo, I. 124.

781. Compare al-Damîrî Ḥayât al-ḥaywân, II. 316 sq.

782. Al-Masʿûdî, Les Prairies d’or, II. 148 sq.; al-Kazwînî, ed. Wüstenfeld, I. 199; Yâḳût, Muʿjam, II. 941.

783. Al-Maḳrîzî, History of the Copts, ed. Wüstenfeld, Göttingen 1847, p. 90.

784. Petermann, Reisen im Orient, I. 147.

785. Kremer, Mittelsyrien und Damaskus, p. 194.

786. See W.K. Kelly, Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk-lore, London 1863, chap. II.—Tr.

787. See Kelly, ibid., p. 74.—Tr.

788. See Kelly, ibid., p. 83.—Tr.

789. See Kelly, ibid., 163–5—Tr.

790. See Kelly, Curiosities etc., p. 89.—Tr.

791. See Kelly, Curiosities etc., p. 83–85, 151.—Tr.

792. See Kelly, ibid., p. 83, 141–3.—Tr.

793. See Kelly, Curiosities etc., pp. 37, 43.—Tr. The literal meaning of his name is qui in matre tumescit vel praevalet, i.e. a boring-stick like the lightning.

794. In English mangle, substantive and verb. The verb mangle ‘to tear’ is probably the same, derived from the action of boring. To mantle—to winnow corn, to rave, to froth, may be from the same original root, represented by the Sanskrit, math, manth, in the sense ‘to shake.’ See Halliwell, Dict. of Archaic and Provincial Words. The Greek μόθος ‘tumult’ is connected with the same root by Gr. Curtius, Grundzüge der griech. Etymologie, No. 476.—Tr.

795. The penis. The Latin mentula, as Prof. Weber reminds me, is clearly the same.

796. The boring-stick and the penis.

797. ṛ in Sanskrit is pronounced as r with a very short vowel, e.g. like ri in merrily.—Tr.

798. Halliwell, l.c., gives in provincial English bliken ‘to shine,’ blickent ‘shining,’ and blink ‘a spark of fire.’—Tr.

799. ć in Sanskrit is the English ch in church.—Tr.

800. This is supported by the analogy of the French apprendre. It should also be noted that Plato, in defining the signification of μανθάνειν, says that it means πράγματός τινος λαμβάνειν τὴν ἐπιστήμην (Euthyd. 277. e.).

801. On all this see my Einleitung in die Psychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.

802. It is explained by Lazarus, Leben der Seele, II. p. 166, and by me in Grammatik, Logik und Psychologie, pp. 319–340, and in Charakteristik der Typen des Sprachbaues, pp. 78 et seq.