| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...Miiller calls our attention to this in the following questions, he leaves the difficulty unsolved : — " How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?...How was the abstract idea of measuring, expressed by m&, the idea of thinking by man ! How did gd come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, d& giving,... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 pages
...can only gather from such isolated cases as when Von Hammer counts 5744 words relating to the camel.1 The fact that every word is originally a predicate,...expressed by md, the idea of thinking by man? How did ad come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, dd giving, mar dying, char walking, kar doing ?... | |
| 1862 - 692 pages
...these ideas, by the conditions of its being, it incarnates in rootwords. A final question arises : " How did roots become the signs of general ideas? How was the abstract idea, for example, of giving, expressed by the root-word dd? Muller answers: " The four hundred or five hundred... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 pages
...Von Hammer counts 5,744 words all relating to the camel.f * Cf. Yates, Sanshrit Grammar,, p. xviii. The fact that every word is originally a predicate...How was the abstract idea of measuring expressed by ma, the idea of thinking by man? How did ga come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, da giving,... | |
| sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...language appears to be superfluous. It is moreover the only true finality in language yet reached. " How can sound express thought ? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?" asks one distinguished student of the science of Language ; and the answer is : " The roots are... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 686 pages
...language appears to be superfluous. It is moreover the only true finality in language yet reached. " How can sound express thought ? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?" asks one distinguished student of the science of Language ; and the answer is : " The roots are... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1866 - 506 pages
...however, much exaggeration in these statements. See Renan, Histoire des Langnes Semititliies, p. 377. The fact that every word is originally a predicate...of thinking by man ? How did gd come to mean going ; sthd, standing ; sad, sitting ; dd, giving ; mar, dying ; char, walking ; kar, doing ? I shall try... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1871 - 470 pages
...he says,1 ' and now I am afraid I have but a few minutes left to explain the last question of allin our science, namely — How can sound express thought?...How was the abstract idea of measuring expressed by ma, the idea of thinking by man?- How did g& come to mean going, stha standing, sad sitting, da giving,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 pages
...inquiry. Finally, regretting that he has "but a few minutes left" for its solution, he propounds " the last question of all in our science, namely :...thought? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ? " And he proceeds to say, " I shall try to answer as briefly as possible. They .... are not interjections,... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1873 - 466 pages
...inquiry. Finally, regretting that he has " but a few minutes left " for its solution, he propounds " the last question of all in our science, namely :...? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ? " And he proceeds to say, " I shall try to answer as briefly as possible. They .... are not interjections,... | |
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