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The services of this scholar to Semitic philology have not yet received the recognition which they richly deserve. For though many of his etymologies may be fanciful and far-fetched, he has nevertheless succeeded in restoring to the Semitic vocabulary a large number of words hitherto held to be of foreign derivation, and, in the case of many others, in at least reopening the question of their etymology for further discussion.
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