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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... originally ? A mere conglomerate of wedges , engraved or impressed on the solitary mon- ument of Cyrus in the Murgháb , on the ruins of Persepolis , on the rocks of Behistún near the fron tiers of Media , and the precipice of Van in ...
... originally ? A mere conglomerate of wedges , engraved or impressed on the solitary mon- ument of Cyrus in the Murgháb , on the ruins of Persepolis , on the rocks of Behistún near the fron tiers of Media , and the precipice of Van in ...
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strength- ened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hottentots in general appearance . " ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) — " Since the Hottentot ...
... originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strength- ened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hottentots in general appearance . " ( Appleyard , The Kafir Language . 1850. ) — " Since the Hottentot ...
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... 348-365 . Rom . of the Rose , 2264 . See Fürstemann , Die Deutschen Ortsnamen , p . 244 ; and Zeitschrift füṛ Vergleichende Sprachforschung , i . 109 . names in England and Germany were originally such patronymics . 24 " A - GOING , " ETC.
... 348-365 . Rom . of the Rose , 2264 . See Fürstemann , Die Deutschen Ortsnamen , p . 244 ; and Zeitschrift füṛ Vergleichende Sprachforschung , i . 109 . names in England and Germany were originally such patronymics . 24 " A - GOING , " ETC.
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... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the villages1 of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Malling- ton , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home of the Walsings , the memory of the famous race of the Walsings may ...
... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the villages1 of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Malling- ton , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home of the Walsings , the memory of the famous race of the Walsings may ...
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