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 395
... mother of Arkas , has noth- ing to do with the original naming of the stars . On the contrary , Kallisto was supposed to have been changed into the Arktos , or the Great Bear , because she was the mother of Arkas , that is to say , of ...
... mother of Arkas , has noth- ing to do with the original naming of the stars . On the contrary , Kallisto was supposed to have been changed into the Arktos , or the Great Bear , because she was the mother of Arkas , that is to say , of ...
Page 424
... mother , brother , daughter , husband , brother - in - law , cow , dog , horse , cattle , tree , ox , corn , mill , earth , sky , water , stars , and many hundreds more , were identically the same , but that each possessed the elements ...
... mother , brother , daughter , husband , brother - in - law , cow , dog , horse , cattle , tree , ox , corn , mill , earth , sky , water , stars , and many hundreds more , were identically the same , but that each possessed the elements ...
Page 425
... mother . Let us apply this to the mythological phraseology of the Aryan nations . If we had to explain only the names and fables of the Greek gods , an explanation such as that which derives the name of Zeús from the verb zen , to live ...
... mother . Let us apply this to the mythological phraseology of the Aryan nations . If we had to explain only the names and fables of the Greek gods , an explanation such as that which derives the name of Zeús from the verb zen , to live ...
Page 426
... mother of Greek and Latin , as Latin is of French and Italian . Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin are sisters . varieties of one and the same type . They all point to some earlier stage when they were less different from each other than they ...
... mother of Greek and Latin , as Latin is of French and Italian . Sanskrit , Greek , and Latin are sisters . varieties of one and the same type . They all point to some earlier stage when they were less different from each other than they ...
Page 449
... mother of Indra , and if we read in the same hymn that Indra " somewhat excels his mother and his father who begat him , " " this can only be meant to express the same idea , namely , that the active god 1 Indra , a name peculiar to ...
... mother of Indra , and if we read in the same hymn that Indra " somewhat excels his mother and his father who begat him , " " this can only be meant to express the same idea , namely , that the active god 1 Indra , a name peculiar to ...
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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