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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... meant originally the wind from the mountains , and more particularly from the Rhipæan mountains . ( See Preller , Grie- chische Mythologie , i . 157. ) Boros , from which Boreas , is another form of ores , mountain , both derived from ...
... meant originally the wind from the mountains , and more particularly from the Rhipæan mountains . ( See Preller , Grie- chische Mythologie , i . 157. ) Boros , from which Boreas , is another form of ores , mountain , both derived from ...
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... - fect in his catalogue raisonné of human knowledge . A careful consideration of his work will show us why this language , which was meant to be perma- 1 Page 21 . nent , unchangeable , and universal , would , on BISHOP WILKINS . 59.
... - fect in his catalogue raisonné of human knowledge . A careful consideration of his work will show us why this language , which was meant to be perma- 1 Page 21 . nent , unchangeable , and universal , would , on BISHOP WILKINS . 59.
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... meant no more than things walking forward , became in time the name of cattle , and particularly of sheep . In San- skrit , sarit , meaning goer , from sar , to go , became the name of river ; sara , meaning the same , what runs or goes ...
... meant no more than things walking forward , became in time the name of cattle , and particularly of sheep . In San- skrit , sarit , meaning goer , from sar , to go , became the name of river ; sara , meaning the same , what runs or goes ...
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... meant originally no more than going , the base being conceived as ground on which it is safe to walk . What can be more general than facies , originally the make or shape of a thing , then the face ? Yet the same expression is repeated ...
... meant originally no more than going , the base being conceived as ground on which it is safe to walk . What can be more general than facies , originally the make or shape of a thing , then the face ? Yet the same expression is repeated ...
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... meant to indicate certain phonetic changes that take place if a root ends in a nasal ( vi . 4 , 41 ) ; and that the vowel i serves merely to connect these two algebraic symbols . So that the suffix viț is in reality nought . This is ...
... meant to indicate certain phonetic changes that take place if a root ends in a nasal ( vi . 4 , 41 ) ; and that the vowel i serves merely to connect these two algebraic symbols . So that the suffix viț is in reality nought . This is ...
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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