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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... speak , and the languages that are and that have been spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of hu- man life and human thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify ...
... speak , and the languages that are and that have been spoken in every part of our globe since the first dawn of hu- man life and human thought , supply materials ca- pable of scientific treatment . We can collect them , we can classify ...
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... speak disparagingly of the strict observ- ance of phonetic rules in tracing the history of Aryan words , and who consider it mere pedantry to be restrained by Grimm's Law from identifying such words as Latin cura and care , Greek kaleìn ...
... speak disparagingly of the strict observ- ance of phonetic rules in tracing the history of Aryan words , and who consider it mere pedantry to be restrained by Grimm's Law from identifying such words as Latin cura and care , Greek kaleìn ...
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... speak , particularly the women , I thought I heard the twittering of birds , and I gave up all hope of ever learning it . All words are monosyllabic , and people distinguish their significations only by means of dif- ferent accents in ...
... speak , particularly the women , I thought I heard the twittering of birds , and I gave up all hope of ever learning it . All words are monosyllabic , and people distinguish their significations only by means of dif- ferent accents in ...
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... make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being TE PI . 43.
... make it high treason to speak during her reign of Tories , this word being always supplied by another ; such , for instance , as Liberal - Conservative . The object was clearly to guard against the name of the sovereign being TE PI . 43.
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... speak . We read the letters of Cornelia , the mother of the Grac- chi , and it is clear from them that her sons were ... speaking of his mother - in - law , Crassus said , " When I hear Lælia ( for women keep old fashions more readily ...
... speak . We read the letters of Cornelia , the mother of the Grac- chi , and it is clear from them that her sons were ... speaking of his mother - in - law , Crassus said , " When I hear Lælia ( for women keep old fashions more readily ...
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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