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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... meant originally , like the Greek gyné , 1 the Old Slavonic zena , the Sanskrit jani and jani , mother , just as king , the German König , the O. H. G. chuninc , the A. S. cyn - ing , meant originally , like Sk . janaka , father . The ...
... meant originally , like the Greek gyné , 1 the Old Slavonic zena , the Sanskrit jani and jani , mother , just as king , the German König , the O. H. G. chuninc , the A. S. cyn - ing , meant originally , like Sk . janaka , father . The ...
Page 265
... meant right and straight , but it also meant simple ; simple came to mean foolish ; foolish , useless ; useless , bad . Ekelhaft is used by Leibnitz in the sense of fastidious , deli- cate ; it now means only what causes disgust . In ...
... meant right and straight , but it also meant simple ; simple came to mean foolish ; foolish , useless ; useless , bad . Ekelhaft is used by Leibnitz in the sense of fastidious , deli- cate ; it now means only what causes disgust . In ...
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... meant originally sky . 66 A Greek at the time of Homer would have scouted the suggestion that he , in saying Zeús , meant no more than sky . By Zeus the Greeks meant more than the visible sky , more even than the sky personi- fied ...
... meant originally sky . 66 A Greek at the time of Homer would have scouted the suggestion that he , in saying Zeús , meant no more than sky . By Zeus the Greeks meant more than the visible sky , more even than the sky personi- fied ...
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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