The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... German philo- loger Jacob Grimm . He has founded the law of consonantal transition , or consonantal equivalents . A few easy examples will put the reader in possession of the nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in ...
... German philo- loger Jacob Grimm . He has founded the law of consonantal transition , or consonantal equivalents . A few easy examples will put the reader in possession of the nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in ...
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... German fünf : πoús , pes and foot : pecus and feoh : pasco and feed : piscis and fish . If the classical word begins with an aspirate , the English word begins with a middle : for example , the Greek or Latin F is found responsive to ...
... German fünf : πoús , pes and foot : pecus and feoh : pasco and feed : piscis and fish . If the classical word begins with an aspirate , the English word begins with a middle : for example , the Greek or Latin F is found responsive to ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... German shores of the Baltic , and far inland , where High Dutch is established in the educated ranks , the mass of the folk speak Low Dutch , which locally passes by the name of Platt - Deutsch . The kingdom of the Netherlands , where ...
... German shores of the Baltic , and far inland , where High Dutch is established in the educated ranks , the mass of the folk speak Low Dutch , which locally passes by the name of Platt - Deutsch . The kingdom of the Netherlands , where ...
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