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 86
... elements of language are vowels and consonants , but not roots . If , however , we call elements those primitive substances the combination of which is sufficient to account for things as they really are , it is clear that we cannot ...
... elements of language are vowels and consonants , but not roots . If , however , we call elements those primitive substances the combination of which is sufficient to account for things as they really are , it is clear that we cannot ...
Page 87
... elements . But not so speech . Speech is preeminently sig- nificant sound , and if we look for the elements of speech , we cannot on a sudden drop one of its two characteristic qualities , either its audibility or its significancy . Now ...
... elements . But not so speech . Speech is preeminently sig- nificant sound , and if we look for the elements of speech , we cannot on a sudden drop one of its two characteristic qualities , either its audibility or its significancy . Now ...
Page 93
... elements , which shows that , like the Greeks , they looked upon these elements ( earth , water , fire , air , ether ) , and upon the elements of language , as the supporters and feeders of real things and real words . It is known that ...
... elements , which shows that , like the Greeks , they looked upon these elements ( earth , water , fire , air , ether ) , and upon the elements of language , as the supporters and feeders of real things and real words . It is known that ...
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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