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... and winters , long before it was reckoned by days , and suns , and years .
Moon ' is a very old word . It was môna in Anglo - Saxon , and was used there ,
not as a • feminine , but as a masculine ; for the moon was a masculine in all
Teutonic ...
... and winters , long before it was reckoned by days , and suns , and years .
Moon ' is a very old word . It was môna in Anglo - Saxon , and was used there ,
not as a • feminine , but as a masculine ; for the moon was a masculine in all
Teutonic ...
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... and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the
Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient dialects of
India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the
...
... and Roumansch ; how Latin again , together with Greek , and the Celtic , the
Teutonic , and Slavonic languages , together likewise with the ancient dialects of
India and Persia , must have sprung from an earlier language , the mother of the
...
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... framed from Teutonic materials ; a product , as we shall see , of Dialectical
Regeneration . We next observe that the first part of the Latin viginti and of the
Sanskrit vin'sati contains the same number , which from dvi has been reduced to
vi .
... framed from Teutonic materials ; a product , as we shall see , of Dialectical
Regeneration . We next observe that the first part of the Latin viginti and of the
Sanskrit vin'sati contains the same number , which from dvi has been reduced to
vi .
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It is indifferent by what name the language spoken in the British Islands be called
, whether English or British or Saxon ; to the student of language English is
Teutonic , and nothing but Teutonic . The physiologist may protest , and point out
that ...
It is indifferent by what name the language spoken in the British Islands be called
, whether English or British or Saxon ; to the student of language English is
Teutonic , and nothing but Teutonic . The physiologist may protest , and point out
that ...
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Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients , we find , on comparing the
Teutonic with the Latin , or Neo - Latin or Norman elements in English , that the
latter have a decided majority over the home - grown Saxon terms . This may ...
Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients , we find , on comparing the
Teutonic with the Latin , or Neo - Latin or Norman elements in English , that the
latter have a decided majority over the home - grown Saxon terms . This may ...
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| Title | Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Volume 1 Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ...1861 [and 1863], Friedrich Max Müller |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | C. Scribner, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2009 |
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