ABSTRACT
If the authors now turn to one of the older Indo-European languages and attempt to pursue these processes further into the past, they shall find them of the same character; but they can be measured with greater precision, for in Latin the words retain their function whatever their order in the sentence, and show it by their form. Let us, then, examine Lewis and Short’s Latin Dictionary, and (accepting the authors’ etymologies) count the words and their origins. The adverbs are practically all derived from adjectives, but there is a handful of ancient adverbs derived from old, common verbs. They need not examine similarly the course of history of the other Indo-European dialects. Long ago Panini and other grammarians of India, in their devoted studies of the Sanskrit of their sacred literature, recognized in its vocabulary a number of roots out of which that vocabulary seemed to have been compounded.
