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 448
... father , so much so that Dyaushpitar in the Veda becomes almost as much one word as Jupiter in Latin . In one passage ( i . 191 , 6 ) , we read , " Dyaus is father , Prithivî , the earth , your mother , Soma your brother , Aditi your ...
... father , so much so that Dyaushpitar in the Veda becomes almost as much one word as Jupiter in Latin . In one passage ( i . 191 , 6 ) , we read , " Dyaus is father , Prithivî , the earth , your mother , Soma your brother , Aditi your ...
Page 458
... father of Minos . If , on the other hand , Zeus had been a merely mythological personage , such as Eos , the dawn , or Helios , the sun , he could never have been addressed as he is addressed in the famous prayer of Achilles . In ...
... father of Minos . If , on the other hand , Zeus had been a merely mythological personage , such as Eos , the dawn , or Helios , the sun , he could never have been addressed as he is addressed in the famous prayer of Achilles . In ...
Page 480
... Father , if All - Father there be ? Not in this earth ; for it will perish . Nor in the sun , moon , or stars ; for they will perish too . Where is He who abideth forever ? ' Then they lifted up their eyes , and saw , as they thought ...
... Father , if All - Father there be ? Not in this earth ; for it will perish . Nor in the sun , moon , or stars ; for they will perish too . Where is He who abideth forever ? ' Then they lifted up their eyes , and saw , as they thought ...
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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