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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... deity , whose festival was celebrated every year on the 21st of April as the birthday of Rome . It was to commemorate the day on which Romulus , the wolf - child , was supposed to have drawn the first furrow on the foot of that hill ...
... deity , whose festival was celebrated every year on the 21st of April as the birthday of Rome . It was to commemorate the day on which Romulus , the wolf - child , was supposed to have drawn the first furrow on the foot of that hill ...
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... Deity , and for such a name the supposed etymological meaning of good would be far too modern , too abstract , too Christian . In the Old Norse , God is actually found in the sense of a graven image , an idol , and is then used as a ...
... Deity , and for such a name the supposed etymological meaning of good would be far too modern , too abstract , too Christian . In the Old Norse , God is actually found in the sense of a graven image , an idol , and is then used as a ...
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... deities . Such a view , however , finds no support in the hymns of the Veda . In Pilumnus , the brother of Picumnus , both companions of Mars , we have a name of similar import , viz . a pounder . Jupiter Pistor , too , was originally ...
... deities . Such a view , however , finds no support in the hymns of the Veda . In Pilumnus , the brother of Picumnus , both companions of Mars , we have a name of similar import , viz . a pounder . Jupiter Pistor , too , was originally ...
Page 341
... deities . The same root would fully explain the Latin Mars , Martis , and , considering the uncertain character of the initial m , the Greek Áres , Áreōs . Marmar and Marmor , old Latin names for Mars , are reduplicated forms ; and in ...
... deities . The same root would fully explain the Latin Mars , Martis , and , considering the uncertain character of the initial m , the Greek Áres , Áreōs . Marmar and Marmor , old Latin names for Mars , are reduplicated forms ; and in ...
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... deities Mars and Ares and the Indian Maruts is their warlike character ; and if we take Indra as the conqueror of winter , as the destroyer of darkness , as the constant victor in the battle against the hostile powers of nature , then ...
... deities Mars and Ares and the Indian Maruts is their warlike character ; and if we take Indra as the conqueror of winter , as the destroyer of darkness , as the constant victor in the battle against the hostile powers of nature , then ...
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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