For  example  "  digging-he  "  =  labourer,  "  digging-it  "  =  spade,
"digging-here"  =  labour,  "  digging-there  "  =  hole,t  &c.  Or
again,  " '  The  hole  is  dark '  would  have  been  expressed  origin-
ally (in  Aryan)  by  'digging-it,'  'hiding  here,'  or,  'hiding-
somewhere.'  '  Hiding-here  '  might  afterwards  be  used  in  the
sense  of  a  hiding-place.  But  when  it  was  used  as  a  mere
qualifying  predicate  in  a  sentence  in  which  there  was  but  one
subject,  it  assumed  at  once  the  character  of  an  adjective."  %

To  me  it  appears  evident  that  there  is  truth  in  both  these
views,  which,  therefore,  are  in  no  way  contradictory  to  one
another.     We  have  evidence  that  many  substantives  were  of

•  See  especially  Gamett,  On  the  Nature  and  Analysis  of  the  FerA,
t  Science  of  'I hought^  p.  223.
\  Ibid.y  p.  442.
