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76 ὃντοςὄντος [sic]. Further, if, as is said to be the case the sanscritSanscrit [sic] word as originally meant “to breathe,” the similarity between it and Ainu is yet more striking, for the present-day word for “to blow” in Ainu is or.

The words for “papa,”, for “ship,”  for “female,”  for “bone,”  for “two,”  for “three,” and  for “punishment” have already been mentioned, as also has  or , Eng: “water” sanscritSanscrit [sic]: aka. There are others too which might well be compared such as, “little,” (Italian poçopoco [sic] and poi), “a little boy” (Russian сынъ), but space will not allow this subject to be further persuedpursued [sic] here.

The chief argument, however, for an Aryan origin of the Ainu language will be found to lie in the Grammar rather than in vocabulary. And to it the Reader is now to be introduced.

CHAPTER II.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

In writing the Ainu language with the Roman alphabet, the following system has been adopted:—