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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... true , yet undeniable fragments of the earliest formations of Saxon speech and Saxon thought.1 Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the ...
... true , yet undeniable fragments of the earliest formations of Saxon speech and Saxon thought.1 Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the ...
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... 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 to believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues ...
... 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 to believe it to be so as to the Latin and other more modern tongues ...
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... true solution in Southern Africa . " - Africa answers to that of the Hottentot and Bushman . " - " It may be conceived as possible , therefore , that the people here alluded to form a por- tion of the Hottentot race , whose progenitors ...
... true solution in Southern Africa . " - Africa answers to that of the Hottentot and Bushman . " - " It may be conceived as possible , therefore , that the people here alluded to form a por- tion of the Hottentot race , whose progenitors ...
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... true on a small scale 1 Lectures on the Science of Language , First Series , p . 136 , note ( 4th edition ) . may be true on a larger scale . Principles like 22 SUBJECT OF SECOND SERIES .
... true on a small scale 1 Lectures on the Science of Language , First Series , p . 136 , note ( 4th edition ) . may be true on a larger scale . Principles like 22 SUBJECT OF SECOND SERIES .
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... true on a larger scale . Principles like these , which underlie the study of Geology , are equally applicable to the study of Philology , though in their application they require , no doubt , the same circum- spectness which is the ...
... true on a larger scale . Principles like these , which underlie the study of Geology , are equally applicable to the study of Philology , though in their application they require , no doubt , the same circum- spectness which is 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