Evidence of the progress of the memory, the understanding, and the
articulation, is furnished in the answers the child gave when I asked
him, as I touched various objects, "What is that?" He replied:
_Autse_, for Auge (eye).
_Nana_, " Nase (nose).
_Ba_, " Backe (back).
_Baat_, " Bart (beard).
_Oe, Oa_, " Ohr (ear).
_Opf_, " Kopf (head).
_Tenn_, " Kinn (chin).
_Taene_, " Zaehne (teeth).
_Hai_, " Haar (hair).
_Ulter_, " Schulter (shoulder).
_Aam_, " Arm (arm).
_Ann_, " Hand (hand).
_Wier_, " Finger (finger).
_Daima_, " Daumen (thumb).
_Anu_, " Handschuh (glove).
_Bain_, " Bein (leg).
But not one word has the child himself invented. When a new expression
appears it may be surely traced to what has been heard, as _uppe_,
_oppee_, _appee_, _appei_, to "Suppe." The name alone by which he calls
on his nurse, _wola_, seemed hard to explain. If any one says, "Call
Mary," the child invariably calls _wola_. It is probable, as he used to
call it _wolja_, that the appellation has its origin in the often-heard
"ja wohl."
The correct use of single words, picked up, one might say, at random,
increases in a surprising manner. Here belong _baden_, _reiputtse_, for
"Reissuppe," _la-ock_ for "Schlafrock," _boter_ for "Butter,"
_Butterbrod_, _Uhr_, _Buch_, _Billerbooch_ for "Bilderbuch.
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