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 33
... doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu- anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in ...
... doubt the evidence on which the relationship of French and Italian , of Greek and Latin , of Lithu- anian and Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in ...
Page 228
... doubt , the most interesting , because they belong to the earliest stages of Aryan speech , not only by their material , but like- wise by their workmanship . Such a word as mother , for instance , has not only the same root in Sanskrit ...
... doubt , the most interesting , because they belong to the earliest stages of Aryan speech , not only by their material , but like- wise by their workmanship . Such a word as mother , for instance , has not only the same root in Sanskrit ...
Page 506
... doubt as to the meaning of the praises bestowed on them , or of the acts which they are said to have performed . If Day and Night , or Heaven and Earth , are praised as sisters , even as twin - sisters , we can hardly call this as yet ...
... doubt as to the meaning of the praises bestowed on them , or of the acts which they are said to have performed . If Day and Night , or Heaven and Earth , are praised as sisters , even as twin - sisters , we can hardly call this as yet ...
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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