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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Page 71
... God , dua must signify divine ; if De signi- fies element , then due must signify elementary ; if Do signifies stone ... God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if ...
... God , dua must signify divine ; if De signi- fies element , then due must signify elementary ; if Do signifies stone ... God , then ida must signify that which is opposed to God , namely , idol . If dab be spirit , odab will be body ; if ...
Page 302
... God from good . In Danish good is god , but the identity of sound be- tween the English God and the Danish god is merely accidental ; the two words are distinct , and are kept distinct in every dialect of the Teutonic family . As in ...
... God from good . In Danish good is god , but the identity of sound be- tween the English God and the Danish god is merely accidental ; the two words are distinct , and are kept distinct in every dialect of the Teutonic family . As in ...
Page 303
... God as the name of the true God , in the same manner as the Romanic nations retained their old heathen word Deus , we find that in Old High - German a new word was formed for false gods or idols . They were called apcot , as if ex - gods ...
... God as the name of the true God , in the same manner as the Romanic nations retained their old heathen word Deus , we find that in Old High - German a new word was formed for false gods or idols . They were called apcot , as if ex - gods ...
Page 320
... men , but by the gods themselves . The boldness and pregnancy 1 Olympiodorus ad Plat . Philebum , p . 242 , örɩ áɣáλμara pwvýevтa kal of such expressions are the best guaranty of their genuineness 320 GREEK THEORIES ON LANGUAGE .
... men , but by the gods themselves . The boldness and pregnancy 1 Olympiodorus ad Plat . Philebum , p . 242 , örɩ áɣáλμara pwvýevтa kal of such expressions are the best guaranty of their genuineness 320 GREEK THEORIES ON LANGUAGE .
Page 336
... gods , who were called ámbrotoi , without decay , immortal , and their food ambrosia , immortality . In the Teutonic languages these words are absent , but that mar was used in the sense , if not of dying , at least of killing , we ...
... gods , who were called ámbrotoi , without decay , immortal , and their food ambrosia , immortality . In the Teutonic languages these words are absent , but that mar was used in the sense , if not of dying , at least of killing , we ...
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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