By which we may give some kind of guess what kind of notions they were, and whence derived, which filled their minds who were the first beginners of languages, and how nature, even in the naming of things, unawares suggested to men the originals and principles of all their knowledge: whilst, to give names that might make known to others any operations they felt in themselves, or any other ideas that came not under their senses, they were fain to borrow words from ordinary known ideas of sensation, by that means to make others the more easily to conceive those operations they experimented in themselves, which made no outward sensible appearances;
Hortik abiatuta barrunda dezakegu zer nolako nozioak eta nondik eratorriak zituzten hizkuntza horiez lehenik mintzo zirenek, eta nolatan izadiak berak oharkabean iradoki zien gizakiei izen berauen bidez euren ezagutza guztien iturburua eta printzipioa, zeren, beraien baitan sentitzen zuten edozein eragiketa edo sentimenetatik etorri gabeko edozein ideia besteei komunikatzeko, sentipen ideia eskuarki ezagunetatik harturiko hitzetara jo behar izan baitzuten, era horretan besteei errazago bururazteko beren baitan esperimentaturiko eragiketa horiek, kanpo agerpen sentigarririk sortu gabekoak;