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 161
... soft aspirates , on the contrary , of which more here- after , are said to be produced by the union of the soft g , d , b , with the soft ' h . It is quite clear that the Sanskrit ' h , which is not the spiritus asper ( though it has ...
... soft aspirates , on the contrary , of which more here- after , are said to be produced by the union of the soft g , d , b , with the soft ' h . It is quite clear that the Sanskrit ' h , which is not the spiritus asper ( though it has ...
Page 213
... soft ; each in turn is liable to aspiration , though only in certain languages . In Sanskrit the system is complete ; we have the hard checks , k , t , p ; the soft checks , g , d , b ; the hard aspirated checks , kh , th , ph ; and the ...
... soft ; each in turn is liable to aspiration , though only in certain languages . In Sanskrit the system is complete ; we have the hard checks , k , t , p ; the soft checks , g , d , b ; the hard aspirated checks , kh , th , ph ; and the ...
Page 219
... soft , and the aspirated soft contact , but it might have been achieved equally well by the hard , the soft , and the aspirated hard contact , t , d , th , or by the hard and soft contacts together with the dental breathing . The real ...
... soft , and the aspirated soft contact , but it might have been achieved equally well by the hard , the soft , and the aspirated hard contact , t , d , th , or by the hard and soft contacts together with the dental breathing . The real ...
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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