Indian Linguistics - A Quarterly Bulletin of the Linguistic Society of India

4. Sayce Principles of Comparative Philology p. 222: "Hence the conclusion to which the Sanskritists jumped that the general precedes the particular and their triumphant refutation of the onomatopoeic hypothesis of the origin of the language.""ONOMATOPOEIA AND ITS USE 3 of language. [...] The clap or peal of the thunder is really the report of an explosion of electricity in the clouds. [...] The knees of the monster seemed to be without life and strength but the implication of the clattering noise caused by it is conveyed in the compound. [...] The quiet richness of crimson is to the exciting splendour of scarlet as the mellow note of a horn to the blare of trumpets. [...] tions ; the prominence of the-half open back vowel [o] being heard in place of [o] of the Standard Colloquial form of Bengali ; the lax articulation of the ordinary alveolar [r] which is very often slurred and frequently appears in positions where it was originally absent; the not very infrequent change of [n] to [1] ; the interchange of [r] and [1] ; the wide employ of the aspirates ; the prese