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CHARACTERS AND SOUNDS. 75 {|
 * DEV śwaśura, || ἐκυρός, || socer, || svaihra, || suehur.
 * DEV daśan, || δέκα, || decem, || taihun, || zëhan.
 * DEV jnâ, || γνώμι, || gnosco, || kan, || chan.
 * DEV jâti, || γένος, || genus, || kuni, || chuni.
 * DEV jânu, || γόνυ, || genu, || kniu, || chniu.
 * महत् mahat, || μέγαλος, || magnus, || mikils, || mihil.
 * DEV haṇsa, || χήν, || anser, || gans, || kans.
 * DEV hyas, || χθές, || heri, || gistra, || këstar.
 * DEV lih, || λέιχω, || lingo, || laigô, || lêkôm.
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 * DEV jânu, || γόνυ, || genu, || kniu, || chniu.
 * महत् mahat, || μέγαλος, || magnus, || mikils, || mihil.
 * DEV haṇsa, || χήν, || anser, || gans, || kans.
 * DEV hyas, || χθές, || heri, || gistra, || këstar.
 * DEV lih, || λέιχω, || lingo, || laigô, || lêkôm.
 * }
 * DEV hyas, || χθές, || heri, || gistra, || këstar.
 * DEV lih, || λέιχω, || lingo, || laigô, || lêkôm.
 * }
 * }

The Lithuanian has left the consonants without displacement in their old situations, only, from its deficiency in aspirates, substituting simple tenues for the Sanskrit aspirated tenues, and medials for the aspirated medials. Compare,

Irregular deviations occur, as might be expected, in individual cases. Thus, for instance, naga-s, “nail” (of the foot or finger), not naka-s, answers to the Sanskrit नखस् nakhas. The Zend stands, as we have before remarked, in the same rank, in all essential respects, as the Sanskrit,