The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina iv
... manner , just as they happen to be called for in the course of the investigation . If the object - language be the learner's own vernacular , this course will be something like climbing a moun- tain by the side where the slope is ...
... manner , just as they happen to be called for in the course of the investigation . If the object - language be the learner's own vernacular , this course will be something like climbing a moun- tain by the side where the slope is ...
Pagina 19
... manner learnt at second- hand from Roman culture : as DISC , a dish ; from his handing of which a royal officer all through the Saxon period bore the title of DISC - PEGN , dish - thane . When we consider that there was much originally ...
... manner learnt at second- hand from Roman culture : as DISC , a dish ; from his handing of which a royal officer all through the Saxon period bore the title of DISC - PEGN , dish - thane . When we consider that there was much originally ...
Pagina 20
... manner of the oldest town - names , and some names of districts . The first syllable in Winchester appears , through the Latin form of Venta , to have been the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in ...
... manner of the oldest town - names , and some names of districts . The first syllable in Winchester appears , through the Latin form of Venta , to have been the same as the Welsh gwent , a plain or open country . The first syllable in ...
Pagina 38
... manner very like its present employment . But when we examine into . it , we find the sense attached to it was not , as now , that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French exercises comes to the sentence ...
... manner very like its present employment . But when we examine into . it , we find the sense attached to it was not , as now , that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French exercises comes to the sentence ...
Pagina 54
... manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which has been preserved in the Channel Islands . A bold relic of our use of French as the language of ...
... manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the peasants of Normandy , and perhaps still more to the French dialect which has been preserved in the Channel Islands . A bold relic of our use of French as the language of ...
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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