The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... lost none of its force since the time of Shakspeare . A recent traveller in North Wales saw a railway truck at Conway on which some Welsh porter had chalked Chester goots . ' This variation , at which we " smile as a provincial ...
... lost none of its force since the time of Shakspeare . A recent traveller in North Wales saw a railway truck at Conway on which some Welsh porter had chalked Chester goots . ' This variation , at which we " smile as a provincial ...
Pagina 18
... lost all trace of the Jutes . The Angles and Saxons long stood apart and distinct from one another ; they had each a corner of their own . The Anglians oc- cupied the north and east of England , and the Saxons the south and west . The ...
... lost all trace of the Jutes . The Angles and Saxons long stood apart and distinct from one another ; they had each a corner of their own . The Anglians oc- cupied the north and east of England , and the Saxons the south and west . The ...
Pagina 27
... lost . Meantime , the old mythic songs still held their own in the south , where no strong growth of Christian literature appeared to contest the ground against them . But even these could not escape without some colouring from the new ...
... lost . Meantime , the old mythic songs still held their own in the south , where no strong growth of Christian literature appeared to contest the ground against them . But even these could not escape without some colouring from the new ...
Pagina 36
... lost the whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was as applicable to women as to men , whereas now it is limited to one sex . In convertible use it has suffered greatly ...
... lost the whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was as applicable to women as to men , whereas now it is limited to one sex . In convertible use it has suffered greatly ...
Pagina 38
... lost , but which it has retained in German , where fennen , to know , is the proper word for speaking of acquaintance with persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst pu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called ...
... lost , but which it has retained in German , where fennen , to know , is the proper word for speaking of acquaintance with persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst pu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called ...
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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