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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... light by a comparison with other dialects , they will , in turn , reflect that light with increased power on the phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines ...
... light by a comparison with other dialects , they will , in turn , reflect that light with increased power on the phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines ...
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... . Aithiops , like ûithops , meant fiery - looking , from aithein , to light up , to burn , Sanskrit idh , to kindle . ( See Curtius , l . c . i . 215. ) savage tribes , to make abstracts of their grammars and 2 SUBJECT OF SECOND SERIES .
... . Aithiops , like ûithops , meant fiery - looking , from aithein , to light up , to burn , Sanskrit idh , to kindle . ( See Curtius , l . c . i . 215. ) savage tribes , to make abstracts of their grammars and 2 SUBJECT OF SECOND SERIES .
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... light , but my attention was lately drawn to the fact that the same peculiarity , or at least something very like it , exists in the Kafir languages . " The Kafir women , ” as we are told by the Rev. J. W. Appleyard , in his excellent ...
... light , but my attention was lately drawn to the fact that the same peculiarity , or at least something very like it , exists in the Kafir languages . " The Kafir women , ” as we are told by the Rev. J. W. Appleyard , in his excellent ...
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... light . My object was chiefly to show that to people acquainted with a real language , the invention , of an artificial lan- guage is by no means an impossibility , nay , that such an artificial language might be much more per- fect ...
... light . My object was chiefly to show that to people acquainted with a real language , the invention , of an artificial lan- guage is by no means an impossibility , nay , that such an artificial language might be much more per- fect ...
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... light . All these etymologies may seem very unsatisfactory , vague , uninteresting , yet , if we reflect for a moment , we shall see that in no other way but this could the mind , or the gather- ing power of man , have comprehended the ...
... light . All these etymologies may seem very unsatisfactory , vague , uninteresting , yet , if we reflect for a moment , we shall see that in no other way but this could the mind , or the gather- ing power of man , have comprehended 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