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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... applied to the analysis of ancient languages , stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalizations ...
... applied to the analysis of ancient languages , stand before us as real and undeniable facts in the very words which we use in our every - day conversation . They will at the same time serve as a warning against too rapid generalizations ...
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... applied to the analysis of languages which decidedly belong to a different family of speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost ...
... applied to the analysis of languages which decidedly belong to a different family of speech ? Let us take the Bask , which is certainly neither Aryan nor Semitic , and which has thrown out a greater abundance of verbal forms than almost ...
Page 61
... applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of sall , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors , windows , and opera - glasses are made ...
... applied to rock - crystal , quartz , and flint . In like manner , from a similar misapplication of sall , in scientific use , chemists class the substance of which junk - bottles , French mirrors , windows , and opera - glasses are made ...
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... applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( śvetasunga , white - awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit , silver is counted as white , and called śveta , and the feminine sveti was once a name of the ...
... applied to many other herbs and weeds , and as a compound ( śvetasunga , white - awned ) , it entered into the name of barley . In Sanskrit , silver is counted as white , and called śveta , and the feminine sveti was once a name of the ...
Page 77
... stable , the Latin stabulum , comes from the same root , but it was applied to the standing - place of ani- mals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing 66 A stands or rests is called its base , and basis FORMATION OF NAMES . 77.
... stable , the Latin stabulum , comes from the same root , but it was applied to the standing - place of ani- mals , to stalls or sheds . That on which a thing 66 A stands or rests is called its base , and basis FORMATION OF NAMES . 77.
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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