Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April and May, 1863, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1865 - 622 pages |
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Page 17
... Sanskrit yields giri , mountain , and in ancient Slavonic gora . ( See Curtius , Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie , i . 314 ; ii . 67. ) The Ethiopians , equally known to Homer and Herodotus , were origi- nally intended for dark ...
... Sanskrit yields giri , mountain , and in ancient Slavonic gora . ( See Curtius , Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie , i . 314 ; ii . 67. ) The Ethiopians , equally known to Homer and Herodotus , were origi- nally intended for dark ...
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... Sanskrit has no relationship with Greek , and that Comparative Philology , as hitherto treated by Bopp and others , is but a dream of continental pro- fessors.1 How are theories and counter - theories of this kind to be treated ...
... Sanskrit has no relationship with Greek , and that Comparative Philology , as hitherto treated by Bopp and others , is but a dream of continental pro- fessors.1 How are theories and counter - theories of this kind to be treated ...
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... Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic ...
... Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic ...
Page 47
... Sanskrit employed by kings , noblemen , and priests . Here , then , we have the language of wom- en , or , if not of women exclusively , at all events of women and domestic servants , gradually entering into the literary idiom , and in ...
... Sanskrit employed by kings , noblemen , and priests . Here , then , we have the language of wom- en , or , if not of women exclusively , at all events of women and domestic servants , gradually entering into the literary idiom , and in ...
Page 76
... Sanskrit śveta , i . e . white , the Gothic hveits , the A. S. hvit . In Sanskrit , śveta , white , is not ap- plied to wheat ( which is called godhûma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and ...
... Sanskrit śveta , i . e . white , the Gothic hveits , the A. S. hvit . In Sanskrit , śveta , white , is not ap- plied to wheat ( which is called godhûma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and ...
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