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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... earliest formations of Saxon speech and Saxon thought . Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the working of the same human faculty of ...
... earliest formations of Saxon speech and Saxon thought . Or we may proceed to our very antipodes , and study the idiom of the Hawaian islanders , and watch in the laws and edicts of Kamé- haméha the working of the same human faculty of ...
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... early A. S. these abstract nouns in ung are far more numerous than those in ing . Ing , however , began soon to encroach on ung , and at present no trace is left in English of substantives derived from verbs by means of ung . Although ...
... early A. S. these abstract nouns in ung are far more numerous than those in ing . Ing , however , began soon to encroach on ung , and at present no trace is left in English of substantives derived from verbs by means of ung . Although ...
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... early mis- sionaries described the Annamitic as totally distinct 1 On the native residuum in Cochin - Chinese , see Léon de Rosny , Tableau de la Cochinchine , p . 138 . 2 Endlicher , Chinesische Grammatik , par . 53 , 78 , 96 . Léon de ...
... early mis- sionaries described the Annamitic as totally distinct 1 On the native residuum in Cochin - Chinese , see Léon de Rosny , Tableau de la Cochinchine , p . 138 . 2 Endlicher , Chinesische Grammatik , par . 53 , 78 , 96 . Léon de ...
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... early framers of language repose chiefly on wit or fancy . Thus wheat was called the white plant , hvaiteis in Gothic , in A. S. hvæte , in Lithuanian kwetys , in English wheat , and all these words point to the Sanskrit śveta , i . e ...
... early framers of language repose chiefly on wit or fancy . Thus wheat was called the white plant , hvaiteis in Gothic , in A. S. hvæte , in Lithuanian kwetys , in English wheat , and all these words point to the Sanskrit śveta , i . e ...
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... early Greek philosophers used rizómata , roots , in preference to stoicheia , and if elementa stands for alimenta , in the sense of feeders , it may have been intended originally as a render- ing of rizómata . From an historical point ...
... early Greek philosophers used rizómata , roots , in preference to stoicheia , and if elementa stands for alimenta , in the sense of feeders , it may have been intended originally as a render- ing of rizómata . From an historical point ...
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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