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 94
... instance , dhar- mavit , instead of dharmavid ) , Pânini says ( iii . 3 , 68 ) , that a suffix ( namely , viț ) is added to the root vid . But if we come to inquire what this suffix means and why it is called vit , we find ( vi . 1 , 67 ) ...
... instance , dhar- mavit , instead of dharmavid ) , Pânini says ( iii . 3 , 68 ) , that a suffix ( namely , viț ) is added to the root vid . But if we come to inquire what this suffix means and why it is called vit , we find ( vi . 1 , 67 ) ...
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... instances where four and five words , all of Latin origin , have dwindled away into one French term . Ver , the worm , is Latin ... instance , was used in the sense of letting , because you have 20 THE SAME FORM IN THE SAME LANGUAGE . 305.
... instances where four and five words , all of Latin origin , have dwindled away into one French term . Ver , the worm , is Latin ... instance , was used in the sense of letting , because you have 20 THE SAME FORM IN THE SAME LANGUAGE . 305.
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... instance , arś or ris , to hurt ; but the reason why certain stars were afterwards conceived as bears would not be affected by this . It should also be stated that the bear is little known in the Veda . In the two passages of the Rig ...
... instance , arś or ris , to hurt ; but the reason why certain stars were afterwards conceived as bears would not be affected by this . It should also be stated that the bear is little known in the Veda . In the two passages of the Rig ...
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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