The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth , & c . : Tôλos , pullus and foal , filly : múg , pugnus and fist : Tarp , pater and father : névte and ...
... Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth , & c . : Tôλos , pullus and foal , filly : múg , pugnus and fist : Tarp , pater and father : névte and ...
Pagina 16
... Saxon , but not in any High or Low Dutch - is an indication that our ancestors can hardly be classed as pure and unaltered Teutons . The Saxons were a border people , and spoke a Low Dutch strongly impregnated with Scandinavian ...
... Saxon , but not in any High or Low Dutch - is an indication that our ancestors can hardly be classed as pure and unaltered Teutons . The Saxons were a border people , and spoke a Low Dutch strongly impregnated with Scandinavian ...
Pagina 17
... Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account ...
... Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account ...
Pagina 18
... Saxon form , ceaster : STREET , from strata , i.e. ' via strata ' = a causeway - Saxon form , stræt : PORT , a word derived from the Latin porta , a gate , signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town . ' And this is the sense ...
... Saxon form , ceaster : STREET , from strata , i.e. ' via strata ' = a causeway - Saxon form , stræt : PORT , a word derived from the Latin porta , a gate , signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town . ' And this is the sense ...
Pagina 19
... Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still in force sufficient to retain five places in our version of the Old Testament , as may be seen by reference to Cruden's ...
... Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still in force sufficient to retain five places in our version of the Old Testament , as may be seen by reference to Cruden's ...
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