Brâhui regularly has a for ancient short e, and e for ancient weak stressed ai. Brâhui kane (me) corresponds to a blend of Tamil dative enakku and accusative ennai, with the dative-formant prefixed instead of being suffixed: . This inversion of the usual arrangement, parallel with English thereby = by that, is oneof the few cases where a prefix is plainly visible in Dravidian.

In his Linguistic Survey of India, Sir George Grierson has drawn attention to the first Hindūstānī grammar, and given someparticulars about its author, Joan Josua Ketelaar, who was a German in the service of the Dutch East India Company. In the presentpaper I wish to supplement the information regarding Ketelaar's career by means of some biographical data mostly drawn from the Company's records preserved in the “ Bijks Archief ” at The Hague.

Altpers. ubrtam abaram ist von Tedesco, Zschr.fur Indol. 2, 44 if., und von Altheim ebenda 3, 33, zu richtiger Deutung ähnlicherAwesta-Stellen verwertet worden. (Vgl. auch Lommel, Or. Literatur-Ztg. 1934, 180, der eine leise Abweichung zwischen den beiden Sprachen in der Verwendung der Phrase feststellt.) Merkwürdiger Weise hatkeiner der beiden Gelehrten darauf hingewiesen, dass sich dieselbe Wendung auch im Indischen findet.

Die nachfolgende Studie, die ich bereits im Sonderabschnitt zur „ Vorrede “ meines „ Vergleichenden und etymologischen Wörterbuchs des Alt-Indoarischen „ p. 86 angekiindigt habe, verfolgteinen dreifachen Zweck persönlicher und sachlicher Art. Sie will, zuvörderst, im Rahmen dieses Festbandes und, wohlverstanden, mitihrem ganzen Zubehör ehrerbietige Huldigung sein, dargebrachtdem grossen, hochverdienten Altmeister indoarischer und indischerSprachwissenschaffc, Sir George A. Grierson.

Among the specimens of the Pāmīr languages included by Sir George A. Grierson in his Specimen Translations in theLanguages of the North-Western Frontier (later on republished in the Linguistic Survey of India, vol. x) the Yazghulāmī is not represented at all. In his later work specially comprising the I shkashmi, Zebaki, and Yazghulami (London, 1920) Sir George A. Grierson, having no texts at his disposal, had again to limit himself to a mere list of aboutthirty words in Yazghulāmī that were taken down by Sir Aurel Stein.