Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 1C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... derive it either from mythos , word , or from logos , speech . But the title of Mythology is already occu- pied , and Logology would jar too much on classical ears . We need not waste our time in criticising these names , as none of ...
... derive it either from mythos , word , or from logos , speech . But the title of Mythology is already occu- pied , and Logology would jar too much on classical ears . We need not waste our time in criticising these names , as none of ...
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... derived from the Greek ge , land , ground , earth , and metron , meas- ure . Botany , the science of plants , was originally the science of botane , which in Greek does not mean a plant in general , but fodder , from boskein , to feed ...
... derived from the Greek ge , land , ground , earth , and metron , meas- ure . Botany , the science of plants , was originally the science of botane , which in Greek does not mean a plant in general , but fodder , from boskein , to feed ...
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... moon , and masa for month , both mas- 1 Kuhn's Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung , b . ix . s . 104 . 2 Horne Tooke , p . 27 , note . culine . Now this más in Sanskrit is clearly derived 16 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
... moon , and masa for month , both mas- 1 Kuhn's Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung , b . ix . s . 104 . 2 Horne Tooke , p . 27 , note . culine . Now this más in Sanskrit is clearly derived 16 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
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... derived from a root má , to measure , to mete . In Sanskrit , I measure is mâ - mi ; thou measurest , mâ - si ; he measures , má - ti ( or mimi - te ) . An instrument of measuring is called in Sanskrit mâ - tram , the Greek metron , our ...
... derived from a root má , to measure , to mete . In Sanskrit , I measure is mâ - mi ; thou measurest , mâ - si ; he measures , má - ti ( or mimi - te ) . An instrument of measuring is called in Sanskrit mâ - tram , the Greek metron , our ...
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... Danae of old , kept by her father in the dark prison of winter . No one doubts that Luna was simply a name of the moon ; but so was likewise Lucina , both derived -- from lucere , to shine . Hecate , too , EMPIRICAL STAGE . 21.
... Danae of old , kept by her father in the dark prison of winter . No one doubts that Luna was simply a name of the moon ; but so was likewise Lucina , both derived -- from lucere , to shine . Hecate , too , EMPIRICAL STAGE . 21.
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