Lectures on the Science of Language Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain ... 1861 [and 1863].C. Scribner andcompany, 1866 |
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Page 53
... derived dasati , a dec- ad ; and this dasati was again reduced to sati ; thus giving us with vi for dvi , two , the Sanskrit visati or vin'sati , twenty . The Latin viginti , the Greek eikati , owe their origin to the same process . Now ...
... derived dasati , a dec- ad ; and this dasati was again reduced to sati ; thus giving us with vi for dvi , two , the Sanskrit visati or vin'sati , twenty . The Latin viginti , the Greek eikati , owe their origin to the same process . Now ...
Page 56
... find in Latin , so this Latin viginti , together with the Greek eikati , and the Sanskrit vin'sati presup- pose an earlier language from which they are in turn · derived , and in which , previous to viginti 56 PHONETIC DECAY .
... find in Latin , so this Latin viginti , together with the Greek eikati , and the Sanskrit vin'sati presup- pose an earlier language from which they are in turn · derived , and in which , previous to viginti 56 PHONETIC DECAY .
Page 57
Friedrich Max Müller. · derived , and in which , previous to viginti , there must have been a more primitive form dvi - ginti , and previous to this again , another compound as clear and intelli- gible as the Chinese eúl - shi ...
Friedrich Max Müller. · derived , and in which , previous to viginti , there must have been a more primitive form dvi - ginti , and previous to this again , another compound as clear and intelli- gible as the Chinese eúl - shi ...
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... derive from dialects , rather than on the benefits which dialects owe to literary languages . Besides , our chief object to - day was to explain the growth of lan- guage , and for that purpose it is impossible to exag- gerate the ...
... derive from dialects , rather than on the benefits which dialects owe to literary languages . Besides , our chief object to - day was to explain the growth of lan- guage , and for that purpose it is impossible to exag- gerate the ...
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... derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the English fairy . Thus every Latin participle in atus , like amatus , loved , must end in French in é . The same law then changed patre ( pronounced pa- tere ) ...
... derive prataria , which in French becomes prairie ; from fatum , fataria , the English fairy . Thus every Latin participle in atus , like amatus , loved , must end in French in é . The same law then changed patre ( pronounced pa- tere ) ...
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