Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ... 1861 [and 1863], Volume 2C. Scribner, 1869 |
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... Latin cantando corresponding to the English a - singing , while the real Latin participle present , cantans , is used in the Romance languages as an adjective , and takes the feminine termination , - for instance , " une femme ...
... Latin cantando corresponding to the English a - singing , while the real Latin participle present , cantans , is used in the Romance languages as an adjective , and takes the feminine termination , - for instance , " une femme ...
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... Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la vertu qu'elle a de signifier la destination à , pour . C ...
... Latin , that what Le futur erorico niz ( je tomberai ) offre le même verbe et la même forme passive avec la terminaison co . laquelle est propre à exprimer la futurition , par la vertu qu'elle a de signifier la destination à , pour . C ...
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... Latin peto and to bid , Latin corvus and crow , look to the progress that has been made by African and Polynesian philologists in checking the wild spirit of etymology even where they have to deal with dialects never reduced as yet to a ...
... Latin peto and to bid , Latin corvus and crow , look to the progress that has been made by African and Polynesian philologists in checking the wild spirit of etymology even where they have to deal with dialects never reduced as yet to a ...
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... Latin acus , needle , and in the French diminutive aiguille , in acuo , I sharpen , in acer , quick , sharp , shrewd , in acrimony , and even in ' cute ) , was derived aśva , the runner , the horse . This aśva appears in Lithuanian as ...
... Latin acus , needle , and in the French diminutive aiguille , in acuo , I sharpen , in acer , quick , sharp , shrewd , in acrimony , and even in ' cute ) , was derived aśva , the runner , the horse . This aśva appears in Lithuanian as ...
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... Latin ævum , meaning going , from i , to go , be- came the name of time , age ; and its derivative ævi- ternus , or æternus , was made to express eternity . Thus in French , meubles means literally anything that is movable , but it ...
... Latin ævum , meaning going , from i , to go , be- came the name of time , age ; and its derivative ævi- ternus , or æternus , was made to express eternity . Thus in French , meubles means literally anything that is movable , but it ...
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