The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 15
... expression of Scripture , becomes manifest to the philological student , when he examines those precious relics of the fourth century which bear the name of Ulphilas . Here we often meet the very words with which we are so familiar in ...
... expression of Scripture , becomes manifest to the philological student , when he examines those precious relics of the fourth century which bear the name of Ulphilas . Here we often meet the very words with which we are so familiar in ...
Pagina 21
... expression which for picturesqueness must be allowed the palm over our English proverb ' Never say no to a good offer . ' What establishes the British origin of this word is the large connection it has in Welsh , and its appear- ance ...
... expression which for picturesqueness must be allowed the palm over our English proverb ' Never say no to a good offer . ' What establishes the British origin of this word is the large connection it has in Welsh , and its appear- ance ...
Pagina 33
... expression , being precisely that of the ancient Greek and of the modern German . The old flexions serve to convey feeling , sentiment , association , much of that which is æsthetic in literature ; the prepositions and other inter ...
... expression , being precisely that of the ancient Greek and of the modern German . The old flexions serve to convey feeling , sentiment , association , much of that which is æsthetic in literature ; the prepositions and other inter ...
Pagina 35
... expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the modern verb to obey . One might construct a table of words which have succeeded one another in the successive eras of our language , the new sometimes superseding the old , and sometimes ...
... expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the modern verb to obey . One might construct a table of words which have succeeded one another in the successive eras of our language , the new sometimes superseding the old , and sometimes ...
Pagina 36
... expression they say or it is said . German spelling distinguishes between the substantive and the pro- noun by giving the former a double n at the close , in addi- tion to the distinction of the initial capital , which in German belongs ...
... expression they say or it is said . German spelling distinguishes between the substantive and the pro- noun by giving the former a double n at the close , in addi- tion to the distinction of the initial capital , which in German belongs ...
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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