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 74
... horse . Sav . age tribes are great mimics , and imitate the cries of animals with wonderful success . But this is ... horse . In naming the horse , the quality that struck the mind of the Aryan man as the most prominent was its swiftness ...
... horse . Sav . age tribes are great mimics , and imitate the cries of animals with wonderful success . But this is ... horse . In naming the horse , the quality that struck the mind of the Aryan man as the most prominent was its swiftness ...
Page 75
... horse besides the one here mentioned , but whatever name was given it could only be formed by laying hold of the horse by means of some general quality , and by thus arranging the horse , together with other objects , under some gen ...
... horse besides the one here mentioned , but whatever name was given it could only be formed by laying hold of the horse by means of some general quality , and by thus arranging the horse , together with other objects , under some gen ...
Page 124
... horse . In the formation of certain letters a horizontal narrow fissure may be produced by depressing the epiglottis over the vertical false and true vocal chords . Within the larynx ( 4 , 5 ) , rather above its middle , Argtenuid Fig ...
... horse . In the formation of certain letters a horizontal narrow fissure may be produced by depressing the epiglottis over the vertical false and true vocal chords . Within the larynx ( 4 , 5 ) , rather above its middle , Argtenuid Fig ...
Page 245
... horses . They speak of a steel - pen and a pen - holder , because they had before spoken of a pen , penna . When hawks were supplanted by fire - arms , the names of the birds of prey , formerly used in hawking , were transferred to the ...
... horses . They speak of a steel - pen and a pen - holder , because they had before spoken of a pen , penna . When hawks were supplanted by fire - arms , the names of the birds of prey , formerly used in hawking , were transferred to the ...
Page 284
... horse , a frisky horse , and a fresh horse , a differ- ence which it would be difficult to express in any other language . It is a cause of weakness in lan- guage if many ideas have to be expressed by the same word , and fresh in ...
... horse , a frisky horse , and a fresh horse , a differ- ence which it would be difficult to express in any other language . It is a cause of weakness in lan- guage if many ideas have to be expressed by the same word , and fresh in ...
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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