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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... words themselves , but syllables of similar sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Tu , not only was this word , which means " to stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable ...
... words themselves , but syllables of similar sound in other words . Thus the name of one of the kings being Tu , not only was this word , which means " to stand , " changed to tia , but in the word fetu , star , the last syllable ...
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... words . It is amusing to notice how the whole party will laugh when the wit of the circle perpetrates a new slang term , and these new words are very often retained . I have noticed this during long voyages made with Indian crews . When ...
... words . It is amusing to notice how the whole party will laugh when the wit of the circle perpetrates a new slang term , and these new words are very often retained . I have noticed this during long voyages made with Indian crews . When ...
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... 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 signs of things or ...
... 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 signs of things or ...
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... words . " Most men , if not all , " he says , ( and who are they that are here exempted ? ) " in their thinking and reasoning within themselves , make use of words , instead of ideas , at least when the subject of their meditation ...
... words . " Most men , if not all , " he says , ( and who are they that are here exempted ? ) " in their thinking and reasoning within themselves , make use of words , instead of ideas , at least when the subject of their meditation ...
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... words , with which they so often confound others , and not seldom themselves also . " 1 In all this there is , no doubt , great truth ; yet , strictly speaking , it is as impossible to use words ' without thought as to think without words ...
... words , with which they so often confound others , and not seldom themselves also . " 1 In all this there is , no doubt , great truth ; yet , strictly speaking , it is as impossible to use words ' without thought as to think without words ...
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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