Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 11-12Ginn & Company, 1881 |
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... spelled . ) Final combinations are omitted . They exhibited phenomena analogous to those of initial combinations . In reference to the latter , it is inter- esting to observe that when a letter which she could pronounce correctly ...
... spelled . ) Final combinations are omitted . They exhibited phenomena analogous to those of initial combinations . In reference to the latter , it is inter- esting to observe that when a letter which she could pronounce correctly ...
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... spelling , as well as the inaccuracy of copyists , will of necessity veil more or less the phonetic nature of all ancient records . This variety and uncertainty within the Old High - German dialects nowise detract from the significance ...
... spelling , as well as the inaccuracy of copyists , will of necessity veil more or less the phonetic nature of all ancient records . This variety and uncertainty within the Old High - German dialects nowise detract from the significance ...
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... spelled in Modern German with a final d , but pronounced with t , in obedience to the phonetic law as to finals which ( as in Sans- krit ) requires the conversion of a sonant mute into its corre- sponding surd . In Middle High - German ...
... spelled in Modern German with a final d , but pronounced with t , in obedience to the phonetic law as to finals which ( as in Sans- krit ) requires the conversion of a sonant mute into its corre- sponding surd . In Middle High - German ...
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... spelling ) , and in one by v . In the two remaining ( Habicht , übel ) , it corresponds to an Old High - German p and an English v ( but Gothic b , at least for übel ) . 11. English b not represented in German . Humble - bee ( wanting ...
... spelling ) , and in one by v . In the two remaining ( Habicht , übel ) , it corresponds to an Old High - German p and an English v ( but Gothic b , at least for übel ) . 11. English b not represented in German . Humble - bee ( wanting ...
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... spelling . Only in as and such is it dropped in writing ; and in the former , it was lost already in Anglo - Saxon . 8 . German w not represented in English pronunciation . INITIAL : wer ( huer ) , who ( hwâ ) . MEDIAL : Schwert ( suërt ) ...
... spelling . Only in as and such is it dropped in writing ; and in the former , it was lost already in Anglo - Saxon . 8 . German w not represented in English pronunciation . INITIAL : wer ( huer ) , who ( hwâ ) . MEDIAL : Schwert ( suërt ) ...
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Anglo-Saxon aorist aorist participle appears Arabian Arabic Aramaic Arameans Babylonia borrowed certainly o.G. character Charles common Conn consonant corresponds dialects dropt epenthesis example facts final fonetic French fricatives genitive German grammar Greek Harvard University Hebrew Herodotus Homer initial inscriptions Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College language Latin linguistic Mass MEDIAL mixed mixed language mixture Müller mutes nasals nouns occurs Old English Old High-German original Ormulum palate participle passage phonetic preceding present primitive Semites probably Professor pronounced pronunciation race reference represented restord Roman Seminary Semitic session Sihler sound speech spelling Strabo suppose syllable theze Thucydides tion tongue tradition umlaut verb vocabulary vowel W. D. Whitney wanting in A.S. wanting in O.H.G. Whitney William words writing writn Yale College ἐν ἐς καὶ κτλ ὅτι τε τὴν τῆς τοῦ τῶν
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Page 80 - His quidam signis atque haec exempla secuti Esse apibus partem divinae mentis et haustus 220 Aetherios dixere ; deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque tractusque maris caelumque profundum...
Page 95 - Teutonic speech, back to about the seventh century after Christ. We must not suppose that before that time there was one common Teutonic language spoken by all German tribes, and that it afterwards diverged into two streams, — the High and Low. There never was a common, uniform, Teutonic language ; nor is there any evidence to show that there existed at any time a uniform High-German or Low-German language, from which all High-German and Low-German dialects are respectively derived.
Page 4 - There is hardly a language which in one sense may not be called a mixed language. No nation or tribe was ever so completely isolated as not to admit the importation 'of a certain number of foreign words.
Page 100 - Now the reason why scholars have discovered no more than these two or three great families of speech is very simple. There were no more, and we cannot make more. Families of languages are very peculiar formations ; they are, and they must be, the exception, not the rule, in the growth of language.
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Page 80 - Greek philosophic writers as prevailed at the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Augustan age.
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