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 343
... sense of destroying , like mridh , but in the sense of cleaning or purifying . This is its usual meaning in Sanskrit , and it ex- plains the Sanskrit name for cat , namely , mârjâra , literally the animal that always rubs or cleans it ...
... sense of destroying , like mridh , but in the sense of cleaning or purifying . This is its usual meaning in Sanskrit , and it ex- plains the Sanskrit name for cat , namely , mârjâra , literally the animal that always rubs or cleans it ...
Page 553
... sense of precious stone , we find in Provençal berille ; 2 and in the sense of spectacles , we find the Old French béricle.3 Bericle was afterwards changed to besicles , com- monly , but wrongly , derived from bis - cyclus . In the ...
... sense of precious stone , we find in Provençal berille ; 2 and in the sense of spectacles , we find the Old French béricle.3 Bericle was afterwards changed to besicles , com- monly , but wrongly , derived from bis - cyclus . In the ...
Page 595
... sense - evi- dence . I saw men who had seen the revolution at Paris in July 1830 : this is sense - evidence , supple- mented by argumentative evidence . I saw men who had seen men that had seen the revolution at Paris in July 1789 ...
... sense - evi- dence . I saw men who had seen the revolution at Paris in July 1830 : this is sense - evidence , supple- mented by argumentative evidence . I saw men who had seen men that had seen the revolution at Paris in July 1789 ...
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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