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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... Romans , who probably became for the first time acquainted with the idea of ele- 1 Τὰ δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ στοιχεῖα καλεῖται διὰ τὸ ἔχειν στοῖχόν τινα καὶ τάξιν . 2 The explanation here suggested of stvicheion is confirmed by some re- marks of ...
... Romans , who probably became for the first time acquainted with the idea of ele- 1 Τὰ δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ στοιχεῖα καλεῖται διὰ τὸ ἔχειν στοῖχόν τινα καὶ τάξιν . 2 The explanation here suggested of stvicheion is confirmed by some re- marks of ...
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... Roman provincials but by the German Franks , that we find in its dictionary words beginning with h and with gui . They are due to German throats ; they belong to the Teutonic , not to the Romance alphabet . Thus hair is to hate ; hameau ...
... Roman provincials but by the German Franks , that we find in its dictionary words beginning with h and with gui . They are due to German throats ; they belong to the Teutonic , not to the Romance alphabet . Thus hair is to hate ; hameau ...
Page 175
... Roman origin , e . g . duke , during ( durer ) , beauty ( beauté , bellitas ) , nuisance ( nocentia ) . This sound of u , however , being once naturalized , found its way into Saxon words also ; that is to say , the Normans pronounced ...
... Roman origin , e . g . duke , during ( durer ) , beauty ( beauté , bellitas ) , nuisance ( nocentia ) . This sound of u , however , being once naturalized , found its way into Saxon words also ; that is to say , the Normans pronounced ...
Page 176
... Roman importation . Words , on the contrary , in which th occurs are Saxon , and had to be pronounced by the Normans as well as they could . To judge from the spelling of MSS . , they would seem to have pronounced d in- stead of th ...
... Roman importation . Words , on the contrary , in which th occurs are Saxon , and had to be pronounced by the Normans as well as they could . To judge from the spelling of MSS . , they would seem to have pronounced d in- stead of th ...
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... Roman preferred the termination aris ; hence secularis , regularis , stellaris , the only excep- tions being that l is preserved ( 1 ) when there is also an r in the body of the word , and this r closer to the termination than the 7 ...
... Roman preferred the termination aris ; hence secularis , regularis , stellaris , the only excep- tions being that l is preserved ( 1 ) when there is also an r in the body of the word , and this r closer to the termination than the 7 ...
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