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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... heaven , or the botanist the flowers of the field . There is a Science of Language , as there is a science of the earth , its flowers , and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which ...
... heaven , or the botanist the flowers of the field . There is a Science of Language , as there is a science of the earth , its flowers , and its stars ; and though , as a young science , it is very far as yet from that perfection which ...
Page 63
... heaven , planet , earth , land , & c . After this we arrive at the five categories , subdi- vided into thirty - four subaltern genera , which , to- gether with the six classes of transcendental notions , complete , in the end , his ...
... heaven , planet , earth , land , & c . After this we arrive at the five categories , subdi- vided into thirty - four subaltern genera , which , to- gether with the six classes of transcendental notions , complete , in the end , his ...
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... . Again , if Da is once known to signify God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if dad be heaven , odad will be hell . Again , if saba is king BISHOP WILKINS . 71.
... . Again , if Da is once known to signify God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if dad be heaven , odad will be hell . Again , if saba is king BISHOP WILKINS . 71.
Page 268
... heaven as palatum cœli . There was evidently a similarity of conception between palate and vault , and vault and palace ; and hence palatium was most likely in vulgar Latin used by mistake for palatus , and thus carried on into French.1 ...
... heaven as palatum cœli . There was evidently a similarity of conception between palate and vault , and vault and palace ; and hence palatium was most likely in vulgar Latin used by mistake for palatus , and thus carried on into French.1 ...
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... heaven , and produce other nouns expressive of light , day , and similar notions . The very word which in most Slavonic languages appears in the sense of brightness , has in Illyrian , under the form of zora , become the name of the ...
... heaven , and produce other nouns expressive of light , day , and similar notions . The very word which in most Slavonic languages appears in the sense of brightness , has in Illyrian , under the form of zora , become the name of the ...
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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 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 Rig-Veda Roman root Sanskrit Sarama Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense skrit Slavonic 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