Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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... root mâ , to measure , to mete . In Sanskrit , I measure is mâ - mi ; thou measurest , mâ - si ; he measures , má - ti ( or mimi - te ) . An instrument of measuring is called in Sanskrit mâ - tram , the Greek metron , our metre . Now if ...
... root mâ , to measure , to mete . In Sanskrit , I measure is mâ - mi ; thou measurest , mâ - si ; he measures , má - ti ( or mimi - te ) . An instrument of measuring is called in Sanskrit mâ - tram , the Greek metron , our metre . Now if ...
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... root or radical has ever been invented by later generations , as little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said ...
... root or radical has ever been invented by later generations , as little as one single element has ever been added to the material world in which we live ; if you bear in mind that in one sense , and in a very just sense , we may be said ...
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... root as from their parent stock.1 But what ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor ...
... root as from their parent stock.1 But what ideas can they connect with such expressions ? If we must compare language with a tree , there is one point which may be illustrated by this comparison , and this is that neither language nor ...
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... roots , which in Europe was not attempted before the six- teenth century by Henry Estienne , 2 was perfectly familiar to the Brahmans , at least 500 B. C. The Greeks , though they did not raise language to the rank of a deity , paid her ...
... roots , which in Europe was not attempted before the six- teenth century by Henry Estienne , 2 was perfectly familiar to the Brahmans , at least 500 B. C. The Greeks , though they did not raise language to the rank of a deity , paid her ...
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... root is as , the termination mi . Lithuanian esmi . Now , the termination of the second person is si , which , together with as , or es , would make , as - si es - si es - si . But here Sanskrit , as far back as its history can be ...
... root is as , the termination mi . Lithuanian esmi . Now , the termination of the second person is si , which , together with as , or es , would make , as - si es - si es - si . But here Sanskrit , as far back as its history can be ...
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