The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 9
... signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the tree , you suffix these syllables to the nouns , and then they have the effect of the definite article : skoven , the wood ; træet , the tree ...
... signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the tree , you suffix these syllables to the nouns , and then they have the effect of the definite article : skoven , the wood ; træet , the tree ...
Pagina 19
... 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 , a rampart : mile ...
... 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 , a rampart : mile ...
Pagina 23
... signify male and female slave . § 3. Influence of the Church on the Language . 23. About the year A.D. 600 , Christianity began to be received by the Saxons . The Jutish kingdom of Kent was the first that received the Gospel , and the ...
... signify male and female slave . § 3. Influence of the Church on the Language . 23. About the year A.D. 600 , Christianity began to be received by the Saxons . The Jutish kingdom of Kent was the first that received the Gospel , and the ...
Pagina 101
... characters . This word RUN signified mystery or secret ; and a verb of this root was in use down to a com- paratively recent date in English literature , as an equivalent for the verb to whisper . In a ' Moral RUNIC AND ROMAN . ΙΟΙ.
... characters . This word RUN signified mystery or secret ; and a verb of this root was in use down to a com- paratively recent date in English literature , as an equivalent for the verb to whisper . In a ' Moral RUNIC AND ROMAN . ΙΟΙ.
Pagina 186
John Earle. CHAPTER III . OF INTERJECTIONS . 193. THE term Interjection signifies something that is ' pitched in among ' things of which it does not naturally form a constituent part . The Interjection has been so named by grammarians in ...
John Earle. CHAPTER III . OF INTERJECTIONS . 193. THE term Interjection signifies something that is ' pitched in among ' things of which it does not naturally form a constituent part . The Interjection has been so named by grammarians in ...
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