The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... Latin or both , and the same word is found in English or its cognate dialects beginning with an aspirate . Thus , if the Latin or Greek word begins with P , the English word begins with F. Examples : Tup and fire : πрó , прτos , primus ...
... Latin or both , and the same word is found in English or its cognate dialects beginning with an aspirate . Thus , if the Latin or Greek word begins with P , the English word begins with F. Examples : Tup and fire : πрó , прτos , primus ...
Pagina 6
... Latin for lingua , and tongue . These , and all such illustrations , may be summarised for convenience sake in the following mnemonic formula : - T A M A M T where the Roman letters of the Latin word TAM placed over the Gothic letters ...
... Latin for lingua , and tongue . These , and all such illustrations , may be summarised for convenience sake in the following mnemonic formula : - T A M A M T where the Roman letters of the Latin word TAM placed over the Gothic letters ...
Pagina 18
... Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This ... Latin , others are doubtful whether they should be called Latin or Keltic . Of the first class are those elements of ...
... Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This ... Latin , others are doubtful whether they should be called Latin or Keltic . Of the first class are those elements of ...
Pagina 19
... Latin porta , a gate , signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town : ' this is the sense of it in such a compound as Newport Pagnell . Wall , Saxon WEALL , is through the same filtered process a descendant of the Latin vallum ...
... Latin porta , a gate , signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town : ' this is the sense of it in such a compound as Newport Pagnell . Wall , Saxon WEALL , is through the same filtered process a descendant of the Latin vallum ...
Pagina 20
... Latin form of Venta , to have been the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in Manchester is probably the old Keltic MAN , place ; just as it probably is in the archaic name for Bath , Ake - man ...
... Latin form of Venta , to have been the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in Manchester is probably the old Keltic MAN , place ; just as it probably is in the archaic name for Bath , Ake - man ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become Bible called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction Edition English language example expression Extra fcap fact Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philological philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation relics rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translation verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat