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 80
... pronounce their words , they lay hold of these thoughts by other signs , and particularly by signs that appeal to their sense of sight , in the same manner as words appeal to our sense of hearing . These signs , however , are not the ...
... pronounce their words , they lay hold of these thoughts by other signs , and particularly by signs that appeal to their sense of sight , in the same manner as words appeal to our sense of hearing . These signs , however , are not the ...
Page 101
... pronounced very lightly , and that in Greek the i in oíomai , I believe , is always strongly accented , a mark of the contrac- tion the word has suffered . " The Although the languages of Europe , with their well - established history ...
... pronounced very lightly , and that in Greek the i in oíomai , I believe , is always strongly accented , a mark of the contrac- tion the word has suffered . " The Although the languages of Europe , with their well - established history ...
Page 106
... nor are they always aware that the media or middle letters were originally so called be- cause , as pronounced at Alexandria , they stood half- - way between the bare and the rough letters , THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ALPHABET.
... nor are they always aware that the media or middle letters were originally so called be- cause , as pronounced at Alexandria , they stood half- - way between the bare and the rough letters , THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ALPHABET.
Page 107
... pronounced with less aspiration than the aspirates , with more than the tenues.1 Plato's division of letters , as given in his Cratylus , is very much that which we still profess to follow . He speaks of voiced letters ( pwrýerra ...
... pronounced with less aspiration than the aspirates , with more than the tenues.1 Plato's division of letters , as given in his Cratylus , is very much that which we still profess to follow . He speaks of voiced letters ( pwrýerra ...
Page 112
... pronouncing these without the assistance of a vowel . Again , what is the difference between a , i , u ? What is the differ- ence between a tenuis and media , a difference almost incomprehensible to certain races ; for instance , the ...
... pronouncing these without the assistance of a vowel . Again , what is the difference between a , i , u ? What is the differ- ence between a tenuis and media , a difference almost incomprehensible to certain races ; for instance , the ...
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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