The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... ancient and domestic name by which they are characterized , except that of the Northern ( Norræna ) Speech . This seems like an internal testimony that they are the northern branch of the Low Dutch family . A large proportion of the ...
... ancient and domestic name by which they are characterized , except that of the Northern ( Norræna ) Speech . This seems like an internal testimony that they are the northern branch of the Low Dutch family . A large proportion of the ...
Pagina 12
... ancient lan- guage . It is by this , and this alone , that we are able to realise to how high a pitch of inflection the speech of our own race was carried . Inflections which in German , or even in Anglo - Saxon , are but fragmentarily ...
... ancient lan- guage . It is by this , and this alone , that we are able to realise to how high a pitch of inflection the speech of our own race was carried . Inflections which in German , or even in Anglo - Saxon , are but fragmentarily ...
Pagina 15
... ancient similitude . Words and names are compared as if it were forgotten how largely we have borrowed from the Danes in historic times . It is not to be denied , however , that we have some peculiarities in common with the Norsk ...
... ancient similitude . Words and names are compared as if it were forgotten how largely we have borrowed from the Danes in historic times . It is not to be denied , however , that we have some peculiarities in common with the Norsk ...
Pagina 17
... ancient Keltic dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have C left a trace upon their language . And hence we OF ...
... ancient Keltic dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have C left a trace upon their language . And hence we OF ...
Pagina 19
... ancient towns , which have been handed on from Keltic times to ours . Thus the river - name Avon is unquestionably British , for it is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river ...
... ancient towns , which have been handed on from Keltic times to ours . Thus the river - name Avon is unquestionably British , for it is the common word for river in Wales to this day . So again with regard to that large class of river ...
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