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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... Sanskrit yields giri , mountain , and in ancient Slavonic gora . ( See Curtius , Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie , i . 314 ; ii . 67. ) The Ethiopians , equally known to Homer and Herodotus , were origi- nally intended for dark ...
... Sanskrit yields giri , mountain , and in ancient Slavonic gora . ( See Curtius , Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie , i . 314 ; ii . 67. ) The Ethiopians , equally known to Homer and Herodotus , were origi- nally intended for dark ...
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... Sanskrit ; nay , the sim- ilarity between some of the Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be considered as an entirely exceptional case . Mr. Garnett , however , after establishing the principle ...
... Sanskrit ; nay , the sim- ilarity between some of the Aryan languages and the Bask in the formation of their participles should be considered as an entirely exceptional case . Mr. Garnett , however , after establishing the principle ...
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... Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic ...
... Sanskrit , of Hebrew and Arabic , has been established , is the most satisfactory ; but such evi- dence is possible only in inflectional languages that have passed their period of growth , and have entered into the stage of phonetic ...
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... Sanskrit employed by kings , noblemen , and priests . Here , then , we have the language of wom- en , or , if not of women exclusively , at all events of women and domestic servants , gradually entering into the literary idiom , and in ...
... Sanskrit employed by kings , noblemen , and priests . Here , then , we have the language of wom- en , or , if not of women exclusively , at all events of women and domestic servants , gradually entering into the literary idiom , and in ...
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... Sanskrit , Greek , or Latin , as known to us . But it is for that very reason that the study of what I call Nomad languages , as distinguished from State languages , becomes so instructive . We see in them what we can no longer expect ...
... Sanskrit , Greek , or Latin , as known to us . But it is for that very reason that the study of what I call Nomad languages , as distinguished from State languages , becomes so instructive . We see in them what we can no longer expect ...
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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