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 37
... spoken in China , and it is most nearly related to the spoken dialect of Canton . Yet few Chinese scholars would recognize Chinese in the language of Cochin - China . It is , for instance , one of the most characteristic features of the ...
... spoken in China , and it is most nearly related to the spoken dialect of Canton . Yet few Chinese scholars would recognize Chinese in the language of Cochin - China . It is , for instance , one of the most characteristic features of the ...
Page 245
... spoken before parchment and pa- per superseded wooden tablets . If we knew the time when tablets made of beech ... spoken of the driver of horses . They speak of a steel - pen and a pen - holder , because they had before spoken of a pen ...
... spoken before parchment and pa- per superseded wooden tablets . If we knew the time when tablets made of beech ... spoken of the driver of horses . They speak of a steel - pen and a pen - holder , because they had before spoken of a pen ...
Page 507
... spoken of as distinct from the two Ahans ( Day and Night ) . In v . 82 , 8 , Savitar , the sun , is said to walk before them . In x . 39 , 12 , the daughter of the sky , i . e . the Dawn , and the two Ahans , Day and Night , are said to ...
... spoken of as distinct from the two Ahans ( Day and Night ) . In v . 82 , 8 , Savitar , the sun , is said to walk before them . In x . 39 , 12 , the daughter of the sky , i . e . the Dawn , and the two Ahans , Day and Night , are said to ...
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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