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 160
... aspirate begins a syllable . The Irish pronunciation of kind , town , pig , has like- wise been quoted as in some degree similar to the Sanskrit hard aspirates . In the modern languages of India where the Sanskrit letters are ...
... aspirate begins a syllable . The Irish pronunciation of kind , town , pig , has like- wise been quoted as in some degree similar to the Sanskrit hard aspirates . In the modern languages of India where the Sanskrit letters are ...
Page 161
... aspirates are the hard letters k , t , p , together with the corresponding winds or hom- organic winds ; that is to say , kh is = k + tongue- root breath , th = t + s , php + labial breath . The soft aspirates , on the contrary , of ...
... aspirates are the hard letters k , t , p , together with the corresponding winds or hom- organic winds ; that is to say , kh is = k + tongue- root breath , th = t + s , php + labial breath . The soft aspirates , on the contrary , of ...
Page 213
... aspirates . In Greek we find , besides the usual hard and soft checks , one set of aspirates , x , 0 , 4 , which are hard , and which in later Greek dwindled away into the corresponding breathings . In Latin there are no real aspirates ...
... aspirates . In Greek we find , besides the usual hard and soft checks , one set of aspirates , x , 0 , 4 , which are hard , and which in later Greek dwindled away into the corresponding breathings . In Latin there are no real aspirates ...
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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