The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... translation of the Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture ...
... translation of the Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture ...
Pagina 14
... translated into Mosogothic : in the seventh century Anglo - Saxon began to be cultivated by means of Christianity , and during five centuries were produced those writings which have partly survived . In the eleventh and twelfth ...
... translated into Mosogothic : in the seventh century Anglo - Saxon began to be cultivated by means of Christianity , and during five centuries were produced those writings which have partly survived . In the eleventh and twelfth ...
Pagina 15
... translated into their own tongues ; and this at a stage of their existence in which they could not of themselves produce a written record . How carefully the Mosogothic language was considered and adapted to the expression of Scripture ...
... translated into their own tongues ; and this at a stage of their existence in which they could not of themselves produce a written record . How carefully the Mosogothic language was considered and adapted to the expression of Scripture ...
Pagina 24
... translation when he died . Thus the obscure name of Angle emerged into celebrity , and furnished us with the comprehensive names of English and England , which have continued to designate our country , tongue , and nation . The name of ...
... translation when he died . Thus the obscure name of Angle emerged into celebrity , and furnished us with the comprehensive names of English and England , which have continued to designate our country , tongue , and nation . The name of ...
Pagina 25
... translations to folk that were no scholars , and many of them priests too . One of his most interesting chapters is that in which he gives the traditional story of the vernacular poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with ...
... translations to folk that were no scholars , and many of them priests too . One of his most interesting chapters is that in which he gives the traditional story of the vernacular poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with ...
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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