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 59
... things and notions which they repre- sented ; and so , likewise , if the names of things could be so ordered as to contain such a kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature ...
... things and notions which they repre- sented ; and so , likewise , if the names of things could be so ordered as to contain such a kind of affinity or opposition in their letters and sounds , as might be some way answerable to the nature ...
Page 67
... things expressed by them ; also , that the sounds of a language should have some re- semblance to their objects . This , however , being impossible , he begins by contriving arbitrary marks for his forty genera . The next thing to be ...
... things expressed by them ; also , that the sounds of a language should have some re- semblance to their objects . This , however , being impossible , he begins by contriving arbitrary marks for his forty genera . The next thing to be ...
Page 99
... things which have some analogy with sound ? But how are all things that do not appeal to the sense of hearing - how are the ideas of going , mov- ing , standing , sinking , tasting , thinking , to be ex- pressed ? I give the following ...
... things which have some analogy with sound ? But how are all things that do not appeal to the sense of hearing - how are the ideas of going , mov- ing , standing , sinking , tasting , thinking , to be ex- pressed ? I give the following ...
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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