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 79
... admit this , and the attempts they make to escape from this conclusion , all owing to the very influence of language which , in most mod- ern dialects , has produced two words , one for lan- guage , the other for reason ; thus leading ...
... admit this , and the attempts they make to escape from this conclusion , all owing to the very influence of language which , in most mod- ern dialects , has produced two words , one for lan- guage , the other for reason ; thus leading ...
Page 202
... admits of no exception whatever , and it is chiefly to this peculiar- ity that the softness of these languages is to ... admit closed syllables , i . e . syllables ending in consonants . All syllables in Chinese are open or nasal , 1 yet ...
... admits of no exception whatever , and it is chiefly to this peculiar- ity that the softness of these languages is to ... admit closed syllables , i . e . syllables ending in consonants . All syllables in Chinese are open or nasal , 1 yet ...
Page 278
... admit that the o in odóntes is a merely phonetic excrescence , for al- though I know of no other well - established case in Greek where a simple initial d assumes this pros- thetic vowel , it would be against all rules of proba- bility ...
... admit that the o in odóntes is a merely phonetic excrescence , for al- though I know of no other well - established case in Greek where a simple initial d assumes this pros- thetic vowel , it would be against all rules of proba- bility ...
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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