Kitap 14
2.28
Nor is the reason to be found in the alleged excessive harshness of the Carian language, for it is not extremely harsh; and besides, according to Philippus, the author of a history of Caria, their language contains a very large mixture of Greek words. I suppose that the word barbarian was at first invented to designate a mode of pronunciation which was embarrassed, harsh, and rough; as we use the words battarizein, traulizein, psellizein,βατταοͅιζειν, τοͅαυλιζειν, ψελλίζειν. to express the same thing. For we are naturally very much disposed to denote certain sounds by names expressive of those sounds, and characteristic of their nature; and hence invented terms abound, expressive of the sounds which they designate, as kelaryzein, clange, psophos, boe, krotos,κελαοͅύζειν, κλαγγὴ, ψόφος, βοὴ, κοͅότος. most of which words are at present used in an appropriate sense.
