The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth : Tôλos , pullus , with foal , filly : pellis with fell : núέ , pugnus , with fist ...
... compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth : Tôλos , pullus , with foal , filly : pellis with fell : núέ , pugnus , with fist ...
Pagina 73
... compared to the literary habits of the date , that it is plain they have been studiously excluded , even with a needless excess of scruple ; for a vast number of French words must before now have become quite popular . Besides iseined ...
... compared to the literary habits of the date , that it is plain they have been studiously excluded , even with a needless excess of scruple ; for a vast number of French words must before now have become quite popular . Besides iseined ...
Pagina 96
... compared , is called in Saxon bone , to be pronounced as two syllables . The rings and chains and barbaric trappings which adorned the figure - heads of the ships of the eleventh century are called in one of the Saxon chronicles bone ...
... compared , is called in Saxon bone , to be pronounced as two syllables . The rings and chains and barbaric trappings which adorned the figure - heads of the ships of the eleventh century are called in one of the Saxon chronicles bone ...
Pagina 97
... compared with the long rule of French - speaking masters in this island . If we want to describe the transition from the Saxon state - language of the eleventh century to the Court - English of the fourteenth , and to reduce the ...
... compared with the long rule of French - speaking masters in this island . If we want to describe the transition from the Saxon state - language of the eleventh century to the Court - English of the fourteenth , and to reduce the ...
Pagina 114
... much of that which is arbitrary or accidental may be eliminated by the process of comparing two dialects together , and then a third with the results of the first comparison , and so on ; sifting each 114 I. OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET .
... much of that which is arbitrary or accidental may be eliminated by the process of comparing two dialects together , and then a third with the results of the first comparison , and so on ; sifting each 114 I. OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET .
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