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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... tongues which we designate as the Indo- European languages have their true root and origin in the Polynesian language . " " I am certain , ” the author writes , " that this is the case as regards the Greek and Sanskrit : I find reason ...
... tongues which we designate as the Indo- European languages have their true root and origin in the Polynesian language . " " I am certain , ” the author writes , " that this is the case as regards the Greek and Sanskrit : I find reason ...
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... tongue , which has not yet been sufficiently studied , the great mass of Afri- can languages may be reduced to two families . He shows that the Hottentot is a branch of the North- African class of languages , " and that it was sepa- 1 A ...
... tongue , which has not yet been sufficiently studied , the great mass of Afri- can languages may be reduced to two families . He shows that the Hottentot is a branch of the North- African class of languages , " and that it was sepa- 1 A ...
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... tongues , the analysis of which must lead us to the only trustworthy con- 1 See Mr. John Crawfurd's Essay On the Aryan or Indo - Germanic The- ory , and an article by Professor T. Hewitt Key in the Transactions of the Philological ...
... tongues , the analysis of which must lead us to the only trustworthy con- 1 See Mr. John Crawfurd's Essay On the Aryan or Indo - Germanic The- ory , and an article by Professor T. Hewitt Key in the Transactions of the Philological ...
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... tongues , by which the different meanings of one and the same monosyllabic root are kept dis- tinct . These accents form an element of language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human ...
... tongues , by which the different meanings of one and the same monosyllabic root are kept dis- tinct . These accents form an element of language which we have lost , but which was most important during the primitive stages of human ...
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... tongues of India , Greece , Italy , and Germany . The Tahitians , 1 besides their mataphorical expres- sions , have another and a more singular mode of dis- playing their reverence towards their king , by a cus- tom which they term Te ...
... tongues of India , Greece , Italy , and Germany . The Tahitians , 1 besides their mataphorical expres- sions , have another and a more singular mode of dis- playing their reverence towards their king , by a cus- tom which they term Te ...
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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