Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863Scribner's Sons, 1864 - 622 pages |
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Page 175
... Roman origin , e . g . duke , during ( durer ) , beauty ( beauté , bellitas ) , nuisance ( nocentia ) . This sound of u , however , being once naturalized , found its way into Saxon words also ; that is to say , the Normans pronounced ...
... Roman origin , e . g . duke , during ( durer ) , beauty ( beauté , bellitas ) , nuisance ( nocentia ) . This sound of u , however , being once naturalized , found its way into Saxon words also ; that is to say , the Normans pronounced ...
Page 285
... Roman legions and Roman colonists , from the time of Cæsar's conquest , 55 B. C. , to the withdrawal of the Roman legions in 412 : e . g . colonia = coln ; castra chester ; stratum = street . Secondly , through the Christian ...
... Roman legions and Roman colonists , from the time of Cæsar's conquest , 55 B. C. , to the withdrawal of the Roman legions in 412 : e . g . colonia = coln ; castra chester ; stratum = street . Secondly , through the Christian ...
Page 290
... Roman subjects did the best they could to understand their Latin jargon , and , if they wished to be very polite , they would probably repeat the mistakes which their masters had committed . In this manner the most ungrammat- ical , the ...
... Roman subjects did the best they could to understand their Latin jargon , and , if they wished to be very polite , they would probably repeat the mistakes which their masters had committed . In this manner the most ungrammat- ical , the ...
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Agni Alphabet ancient Angiras Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright called conception consonantal consonants cows Curtius dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct divine doubt Dyaus earth English etymology express father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's law guage guttural Hawaian heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra Italian Kafir Kuhn Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother myth mythology nations nature never night noun Old High-German Old Norse philosophers phonetic poets Polynesian pronounced religion Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon Science of Language sense skrit soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tion tongue trace Tuisco twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν