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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... root which in 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 ...
... root which in 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 ...
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... root of which would be eror , falling ; so that the indicative present of the Bask verb does not mean 1 Cf. Dissertation critique et apologétique sur la Langue Basque ( par l'Abbé Darrigol ) , Bayonne , p . 102. 66 Commençons par l ...
... root of which would be eror , falling ; so that the indicative present of the Bask verb does not mean 1 Cf. Dissertation critique et apologétique sur la Langue Basque ( par l'Abbé Darrigol ) , Bayonne , p . 102. 66 Commençons par l ...
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... roots of the most general powers , meaning to go , to move , to run , to do . But on closer consideration , this ... root , but it was applied to the standing - place of ani- mals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing A stands ...
... roots of the most general powers , meaning to go , to move , to run , to do . But on closer consideration , this ... root , but it was applied to the standing - place of ani- mals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing A stands ...
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... root stich , and this root would account in Greek for the following derivations : 1 , stix , gen . stichós , a row , a line of soldiers . 2 , stíchos , a row , a line ; distich , a couplet . 3 , steichō , éstichon , to march in order ...
... root stich , and this root would account in Greek for the following derivations : 1 , stix , gen . stichós , a row , a line of soldiers . 2 , stíchos , a row , a line ; distich , a couplet . 3 , steichō , éstichon , to march in order ...
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... roots , in preference to stoicheia , and if elementa stands for alimenta , in the sense of feeders , it may have been ... root . If we attempted to divide roots like the Sk . chi , to collect , or the Chinese tchi , many , into tch and i ...
... roots , in preference to stoicheia , and if elementa stands for alimenta , in the sense of feeders , it may have been ... root . If we attempted to divide roots like the Sk . chi , to collect , or the Chinese tchi , many , into tch and i ...
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