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 76
... Sanskrit śveta , i . e . white , the Gothic hveits , the A. S. hvit . In Sanskrit , śveta , white , is not ap- plied to wheat ( which is called godhuma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and ...
... Sanskrit śveta , i . e . white , the Gothic hveits , the A. S. hvit . In Sanskrit , śveta , white , is not ap- plied to wheat ( which is called godhuma , the smoke or incense of the earth ) , but it is applied to many other herbs and ...
Page 78
... Sanskrit staras from strî , to strew , the strewers of light . All these etymologies may seem very unsatisfactory , vague , uninteresting , yet , if we reflect for a moment , we shall see that in no other way but this could the mind ...
... Sanskrit staras from strî , to strew , the strewers of light . All these etymologies may seem very unsatisfactory , vague , uninteresting , yet , if we reflect for a moment , we shall see that in no other way but this could the mind ...
Page 92
... Sanskrit word for cause , cannot be referred to the same root from which dhâtu is de- rived ; for though dhd forms the participle hita , the i of hi - ta would not be liable to guna before tu . Hetû ( Unâdi Sûtras , i . 73 ) is derived ...
... Sanskrit word for cause , cannot be referred to the same root from which dhâtu is de- rived ; for though dhd forms the participle hita , the i of hi - ta would not be liable to guna before tu . Hetû ( Unâdi Sûtras , i . 73 ) is derived ...
Page 97
... Sanskrit asmi , I am . A Chinese child would express exactly the same idea by one word , shi , to eat , or food ... Sanskrit down to English , from what they would have been if that radical vowel had been a . If a root begins with a ...
... Sanskrit asmi , I am . A Chinese child would express exactly the same idea by one word , shi , to eat , or food ... Sanskrit down to English , from what they would have been if that radical vowel had been a . If a root begins with a ...
Page 98
... Sanskrit , that aspirate will never be an aspirate in Gothic , but a media ; if a root begins with a media in Sanskrit , that media will not be a media in Gothic , but a tenuis . And this , better than anything else , will , I think ...
... Sanskrit , that aspirate will never be an aspirate in Gothic , but a media ; if a root begins with a media in Sanskrit , that media will not be a media in Gothic , but a tenuis . And this , better than anything else , will , I think ...
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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