Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. "Fountains it had eternal, and two gates." Of The Character M. Power, Am, Em, Ma, or Mu. It cases our thesis in a mail of steel, the fact that certain natural actions require to be represented by an exclusive sign or sound, whilst all other characters fail to convey an idea of the action. There is none other sound in our alphabet so expressive of including, surrounding, or embracing, as am, em, or mu. It is pronounced by an infant of days when including its mother's teat in its mouth 5 and hence Km, Mam, or Ma, a mother; muime, a nurse, a wet-nurse; wmlan, the breast, a stack, the pap; mam, a tumour, a dome, a round hill, &c. The idea is found in maol, bald, hornless, blunt, in opposition to Mr or birach; Latin, amor, love; ambient, surrounding, compassing; mar, copulation, also the sea, because including or compassing land; mamae, a mother, German, mume, mumble, mutter; mummy, mum, mwth, all partake of the same primary idea. A cat pronounces the sound m when it mews; and hence, mialich, a wiew, to mew; by analogy, ww'api, not hardy, fond of the fire as a cat; wiiagan, an infant given to crying; mitma.n, an audible yawn, &c. Hieroglyphic, a compass, because it surrounds or includes. In this sense of enclosing or including, the character m will be found to be sometimes sacred, as in Amon (Am-Oin), the name of a deity, also of a river in Scotland; as also Amesbury, Amcotes, and many more. "Cha teid claidheamh an duille, Gus an crunar Righ Seumas!" Of The Character N. Power, An, En, Na, Nt, fyc. We have already treated, at considerable length, this sound. One of its departments is to stand for the Celtic Aun or Ain, a river; hence its hieroglyphic sign is an undulation or a wave, thus, Ayw-i, together with two jars supposed to...
