Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863Scribner's Sons, 1864 - 600 pages |
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Page 274
... Italian , Italian from Spanish , Spanish from Portu- guese , because the same Latin words were pro- nounced differently by the inhabitants of the coun- tries conquered or colonized by Rome , so that , after a time , the language spoken ...
... Italian , Italian from Spanish , Spanish from Portu- guese , because the same Latin words were pro- nounced differently by the inhabitants of the coun- tries conquered or colonized by Rome , so that , after a time , the language spoken ...
Page 280
... Italian sperone , German Sporn ; héraut , Italian araldo , Ger- ' man Herold , i . e . Heerwalt , or from Old High - Ger- man harên , French harer , to call ; maréchal , Old German mariscalco . = Many maritime words , again , came from ...
... Italian sperone , German Sporn ; héraut , Italian araldo , Ger- ' man Herold , i . e . Heerwalt , or from Old High - Ger- man harên , French harer , to call ; maréchal , Old German mariscalco . = Many maritime words , again , came from ...
Page 288
... Italian il to el , which we have in Spanish ; to lo ( illum ) , which exists in Provençal and in Italian ( lo spirito ) ; and to le , which appears in Provençal1 dia- lects and in French . As there are certain laws which govern the tran ...
... Italian il to el , which we have in Spanish ; to lo ( illum ) , which exists in Provençal and in Italian ( lo spirito ) ; and to le , which appears in Provençal1 dia- lects and in French . As there are certain laws which govern the tran ...
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