The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 59
... singular combination of archaic English with ripe wit and mature versification . The forms of words and even the turns of expression recall Mr. Barnes's Poems in the Dorset Dialect . A prominent feature is the frequent use of v where we ...
... singular combination of archaic English with ripe wit and mature versification . The forms of words and even the turns of expression recall Mr. Barnes's Poems in the Dorset Dialect . A prominent feature is the frequent use of v where we ...
Pagina 129
... in the genitive and dative singular ; but in the plural it made nom . dagas , gen . daga , dat . dagum . So like- wise staf a letter , plur . stafas ; hwal a whale , plur . hwalast ; K pæð a path , plur . patas . Our modern THE UMLAUT .
... in the genitive and dative singular ; but in the plural it made nom . dagas , gen . daga , dat . dagum . So like- wise staf a letter , plur . stafas ; hwal a whale , plur . hwalast ; K pæð a path , plur . patas . Our modern THE UMLAUT .
Pagina 187
... singular affection that it bears to the verb in its formal character , but out of the general fact that the verb is the central representative and focus of that predicative force , which unequally pervades all language , but which in ...
... singular affection that it bears to the verb in its formal character , but out of the general fact that the verb is the central representative and focus of that predicative force , which unequally pervades all language , but which in ...
Pagina 258
... singular he be- lieves as the one personal inflection left in ordinary use among us . Particularly is it to be observed that we have lost the N of the plural present , which is preserved in the German form glauben . We know from the ...
... singular he be- lieves as the one personal inflection left in ordinary use among us . Particularly is it to be observed that we have lost the N of the plural present , which is preserved in the German form glauben . We know from the ...
Pagina 259
... Singular galaubja Plural galaubjam 2nd . 3rd . galaubeis galaubaith galaubeith galaubjand 263. Here we have ND in the third person plural . In the Old High German it was as in Latin NT . The Germans have dropped the dental T and have ...
... Singular galaubja Plural galaubjam 2nd . 3rd . galaubeis galaubaith galaubeith galaubjand 263. Here we have ND in the third person plural . In the Old High German it was as in Latin NT . The Germans have dropped the dental T and have ...
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