The one primeval language : traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents... (1851)
Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 59
ent and frequentof the hieroglyphics. Its power as t is curiously demonstrable fromcomparison of a definition in the Arabic lexicons with the subjoined wood-cut from * Wilkinsons Egypt. Under the root ^, tiwa, one definition seemed unintelligible, unless on the assumption that it had its origin ina… … usage whence this definition took its rise; viz. that of ^-eeing animals, orbranding them with the letter T. We see here the brand of t, as men-tioned in the definition of tiwa, on the neck, thigh, and side, of the cowand calf. The mark of the Prophets fingers, is now the brand uponthe hind quarter…
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