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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... . 106 LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. GRIMM'S LAW 213 LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY · 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 818 LECTURE VIII . METAPHOR 851 LECTURE IX . THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS PAGE 403.
... . 106 LECTURE IV . PHONETIC CHANGE 174 LECTURE V. GRIMM'S LAW 213 LECTURE VI . ON THE PRINCIPLES OF ETYMOLOGY · 254 LECTURE VII . ON THE POWERS OF ROOTS 818 LECTURE VIII . METAPHOR 851 LECTURE IX . THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS PAGE 403.
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... phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would create its own materials , and as with the rod of the prophet smite the rocks ...
... phonetic peculiarities of Sanskrit and Prâkrit , Zend and Persian , Latin and French . But even were the old mines exhausted , the Science of Language would create its own materials , and as with the rod of the prophet smite the rocks ...
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... phonetic , syllabic , or ideographic . It would detain us too long were I to relate how all these difficulties were removed one after the other ; how the proper names of Darius , Xerxes , Hystaspes , and of their god Ormusd , were ...
... phonetic , syllabic , or ideographic . It would detain us too long were I to relate how all these difficulties were removed one after the other ; how the proper names of Darius , Xerxes , Hystaspes , and of their god Ormusd , were ...
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... phonetic decay . To call for the same evidence in support of the homogeneousness of the Turanian languages , is to call for evidence which , from the nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for ...
... phonetic decay . To call for the same evidence in support of the homogeneousness of the Turanian languages , is to call for evidence which , from the nature of the case , it is impossible to supply . As well might the geologist look for ...
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... Phonetic laws are always useful , but they are not the only tools which the student of language must learn to handle . If we compare the extreme mem- bers of the Polynesian dialects ... phonetic changes that have taken 34 PHONETIC LAWS .
... Phonetic laws are always useful , but they are not the only tools which the student of language must learn to handle . If we compare the extreme mem- bers of the Polynesian dialects ... phonetic changes that have taken 34 PHONETIC LAWS .
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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