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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... Sounds , such as we hear from tuning - forks , strings , flutes , organ - pipes , are produced by regular periodical ( isochronous ) vibrations of elastic air . That sound , musical sound , or tone in its simplest form , is produced by ...
... Sounds , such as we hear from tuning - forks , strings , flutes , organ - pipes , are produced by regular periodical ( isochronous ) vibrations of elastic air . That sound , musical sound , or tone in its simplest form , is produced by ...
Page 144
... sound ch as heard in the German China or ich , a sound very difficult to an Englishman , though approaching to the initial Fig . 15 . sound of words like hume , huge.2 If we soften the breath as it reaches this bar- rier , we arrive at ...
... sound ch as heard in the German China or ich , a sound very difficult to an Englishman , though approaching to the initial Fig . 15 . sound of words like hume , huge.2 If we soften the breath as it reaches this bar- rier , we arrive at ...
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... sounds which do not occur in any other Teutonic dialects . The sound of u as heard in pure is not a Teutonic sound . It arose from an attempt to imitate the French u in pure . Most of the words in which this sound is heard are of Roman ...
... sounds which do not occur in any other Teutonic dialects . The sound of u as heard in pure is not a Teutonic sound . It arose from an attempt to imitate the French u in pure . Most of the words in which this sound is heard are of Roman ...
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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