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 25
... sense of " the home of the Gottings , the home of the Harlings , " & c . 2. Ing is used to form more general attributive words , such as , æpeling , a man of rank ; lyteling , an infant ; niðing , a bad man . This ing being fre- quently ...
... sense of " the home of the Gottings , the home of the Harlings , " & c . 2. Ing is used to form more general attributive words , such as , æpeling , a man of rank ; lyteling , an infant ; niðing , a bad man . This ing being fre- quently ...
Page 68
... sense , in the plural or singular number . In this manner , everything that can be expressed in ordinary gram- mars , the gender , number , and cases of nouns , the tenses and moods of verbs , pronouns , articles , prep- ositions ...
... sense , in the plural or singular number . In this manner , everything that can be expressed in ordinary gram- mars , the gender , number , and cases of nouns , the tenses and moods of verbs , pronouns , articles , prep- ositions ...
Page 72
... sense of the word , i . e . in the sense of reasoning , is impossible without lan- guage . After what I stated in my former lectures , I shall not be understood as here denying the reality of thought or mental activity in animals ...
... sense of the word , i . e . in the sense of reasoning , is impossible without lan- guage . After what I stated in my former lectures , I shall not be understood as here denying the reality of thought or mental activity in animals ...
Page 73
... sense of saying , speaking , or meaning , but always in the sense of gathering , or , more properly , of telling , for to tell is the German Zählen , and means originally to count , to cast up . Lógos , used in the sense of reason ...
... sense of saying , speaking , or meaning , but always in the sense of gathering , or , more properly , of telling , for to tell is the German Zählen , and means originally to count , to cast up . Lógos , used in the sense of reason ...
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... sense of a drop , gutta . The Latin ævum , meaning going , from i , to go , be- came the name of time , age ; and its derivative ævi- ternus , or æternus , was made to express eternity . Thus in French , meubles means literally anything ...
... sense of a drop , gutta . The Latin ævum , meaning going , from i , to go , be- came the name of time , age ; and its derivative ævi- ternus , or æternus , was made to express eternity . Thus in French , meubles means literally anything ...
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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