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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... look to Polynesia and South Africa if we would find the clue to the mysteries of Aryan speech , we are warned by others that there is no such thing as an Aryan or Indo - European family of languages , that Sanskrit has no relationship ...
... look to Polynesia and South Africa if we would find the clue to the mysteries of Aryan speech , we are warned by others that there is no such thing as an Aryan or Indo - European family of languages , that Sanskrit has no relationship ...
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... look , if we wish for a compass to guide us through the most violent storms and hurricanes of philological speculation.1 --- I thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of lectures to the examination of a very lim- ited ...
... look , if we wish for a compass to guide us through the most violent storms and hurricanes of philological speculation.1 --- I thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of lectures to the examination of a very lim- ited ...
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... look to Anglo - Saxon , we find the ter- mination ing used- 1. To form patronymics ; for instance , Godvulf- ing , the son of Godvulf . In the A. S. translation of the Bible , the son of Elisha is called Elising . In the plural these ...
... look to Anglo - Saxon , we find the ter- mination ing used- 1. To form patronymics ; for instance , Godvulf- ing , the son of Godvulf . In the A. S. translation of the Bible , the son of Elisha is called Elising . In the plural these ...
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... look on the modern participle in English as originally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substantives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle was ...
... look on the modern participle in English as originally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substantives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle was ...
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... looks for different character- istics when he has to deal with London clay , with Oxford clay , or with old red sandstone , the student of language , too , must be prepared for different for- mations , even though he confines himself to ...
... looks for different character- istics when he has to deal with London clay , with Oxford clay , or with old red sandstone , the student of language , too , must be prepared for different for- mations , even though he confines himself 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 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