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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... fathers , our tutors , and our mothers speak . We read the letters of Cornelia , the mother of the Grac- chi , and it is clear from them that her sons were brought up , not in the lap , but , so to say , in the very breath and speech of ...
... fathers , our tutors , and our mothers speak . We read the letters of Cornelia , the mother of the Grac- chi , and it is clear from them that her sons were brought up , not in the lap , but , so to say , in the very breath and speech of ...
Page 47
... fathers and brothers , used at public assemblies ; while the soft and simpler dia- lects , the Prâkrit , the Ionic , and the Cymric , sprang originally from the domestic idiom of mothers , sis- ters , and servants at home . But whether ...
... fathers and brothers , used at public assemblies ; while the soft and simpler dia- lects , the Prâkrit , the Ionic , and the Cymric , sprang originally from the domestic idiom of mothers , sis- ters , and servants at home . But whether ...
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... father , farther , are scarcely distinguishable . " Professor Helmholtz describes r and I as follows : " In pronouncing r the stream of air is periodically entirely interrupted by the trembling of the soft palate or of the tip of the ...
... father , farther , are scarcely distinguishable . " Professor Helmholtz describes r and I as follows : " In pronouncing r the stream of air is periodically entirely interrupted by the trembling of the soft palate or of the tip of the ...
Page 176
... father and mother in all languages are derived from the first cry of recognition which an in- fant can articulate , and that it could at that early age articulate none but those formed by the mere open- ing or closing of the lips . It ...
... father and mother in all languages are derived from the first cry of recognition which an in- fant can articulate , and that it could at that early age articulate none but those formed by the mere open- ing or closing of the lips . It ...
Page 234
... father . The English knot is the Old Norse knûtr , the Latin nodus , which stands for gnodus . V. D , Sanskrit d ; Greek , Latin , Celtic , Slavonic d . T , Gothic t . TII , Old High - German z . ( 5. ) English two is Gothic tvai ...
... father . The English knot is the Old Norse knûtr , the Latin nodus , which stands for gnodus . V. D , Sanskrit d ; Greek , Latin , Celtic , Slavonic d . T , Gothic t . TII , Old High - German z . ( 5. ) English two is Gothic tvai ...
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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