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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... mother , for instance , has not only the same root in Sanskrit , Greek , Latin , German , Slavonic , and Celtic , namely , the root ma , but likewise the same derivative tar , 1 so that there can be no doubt that in the English mother ...
... mother , for instance , has not only the same root in Sanskrit , Greek , Latin , German , Slavonic , and Celtic , namely , the root ma , but likewise the same derivative tar , 1 so that there can be no doubt that in the English mother ...
Page 234
... mother , just as king , the German König , the O. H. G. chuninc , the A. S. cyn - ing , meant originally , like Sk . janaka , father . The English knot is the Old Norse knûtr , the Latin nodus , which stands for gnodus . V. D , Sanskrit ...
... mother , just as king , the German König , the O. H. G. chuninc , the A. S. cyn - ing , meant originally , like Sk . janaka , father . The English knot is the Old Norse knûtr , the Latin nodus , which stands for gnodus . V. D , Sanskrit ...
Page 272
... mother has been retained . In the translation of the Bible by Ulfilas , in the fourth century , we meet with qens and qino , meaning wife and woman . In the eleventh century we read in Notker , Sol chena iro charal furh- ten unde minnon ...
... mother has been retained . In the translation of the Bible by Ulfilas , in the fourth century , we meet with qens and qino , meaning wife and woman . In the eleventh century we read in Notker , Sol chena iro charal furh- ten unde minnon ...
Page 305
... mother , and mayor . Suppose that French had never been written down , and had to be reduced to writing for the first time by missionaries sent to Paris from New Zealand , would not mer , in their dictionary of the French language , be ...
... mother , and mayor . Suppose that French had never been written down , and had to be reduced to writing for the first time by missionaries sent to Paris from New Zealand , would not mer , in their dictionary of the French language , be ...
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... mother , brother , sister , husband , wife were first conceived and first uttered . It was a new era when the numerals from one to ten had been framed , and when words like law , right , duty , virtue , generosity , love , had been ...
... mother , brother , sister , husband , wife were first conceived and first uttered . It was a new era when the numerals from one to ten had been framed , and when words like law , right , duty , virtue , generosity , love , had been ...
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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