The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... German philologer Jacob Grimm . He has founded the law of Con- sonantal Transition , or consonantal equivalents . A few easy examples will put the reader in possession of the nature of this law . When a Welshman speaks English in ...
... German philologer Jacob Grimm . He has founded the law of Con- sonantal Transition , or consonantal equivalents . A few easy examples will put the reader in possession of the nature of this law . When a Welshman speaks English in ...
Pagina 6
... German word Amt are intended to bracket together the initial letters of Thins , Medials , and Aspirates , so as to represent the order of transition . In the use of this scheme , we will suppose the student to be enquiring after the ...
... German word Amt are intended to bracket together the initial letters of Thins , Medials , and Aspirates , so as to represent the order of transition . In the use of this scheme , we will suppose the student to be enquiring after the ...
Pagina 7
... German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the consonantal analogies which existed between English and German , I should prefer as a general rule to go to the oldest form of German , because a conventional ...
... German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the consonantal analogies which existed between English and German , I should prefer as a general rule to go to the oldest form of German , because a conventional ...
Pagina 8
... German , ' the great literary language of Central Europe , inaugurated by Luther in his 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 ...
... German , ' the great literary language of Central Europe , inaugurated by Luther in his 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 ...
Pagina 11
... German word , represent the High Dutch side of the comparison . The combination of sa is useful as a reminder that in High Dutch the sibilant for 3 is the substitute for an aspirated dental ( such as our th ) which that language does ...
... German word , represent the High Dutch side of the comparison . The combination of sa is useful as a reminder that in High Dutch the sibilant for 3 is the substitute for an aspirated dental ( such as our th ) which that language does ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar 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 philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat