The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... beginning with an aspirate . Thus if the Latin or Greek word begins with P the English word begins with F. Examples : Tuρ and fire : прó , прŵτоя , primus , compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from ...
... beginning with an aspirate . Thus if the Latin or Greek word begins with P the English word begins with F. Examples : Tuρ and fire : прó , прŵτоя , primus , compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from ...
Pagina 51
... beginning with þ by a metrical pause ; in that case the change does not take place , as— agg affterr þe Goddspell stannt þatt tatt te Goddspell menepp . and aye after the Gospel standeth that which the Gospel meaneth . Here the stannt ...
... beginning with þ by a metrical pause ; in that case the change does not take place , as— agg affterr þe Goddspell stannt þatt tatt te Goddspell menepp . and aye after the Gospel standeth that which the Gospel meaneth . Here the stannt ...
Pagina 69
... beginning of the reign of Edward I ( soon after 1270 ) , when a sudden change brought in the use of French . ' But neither of these strange languages were suitable for edicts and proclamations addressed to the body of the people , and ...
... beginning of the reign of Edward I ( soon after 1270 ) , when a sudden change brought in the use of French . ' But neither of these strange languages were suitable for edicts and proclamations addressed to the body of the people , and ...
Pagina 112
... beginning with a vowel or a silent h . It seems almost incredible that it ever had in English the force of the German ch , or rather of the Welsh ch . Yet such was the case . This ancient guttural is heard now only in those portions of ...
... beginning with a vowel or a silent h . It seems almost incredible that it ever had in English the force of the German ch , or rather of the Welsh ch . Yet such was the case . This ancient guttural is heard now only in those portions of ...
Pagina 114
... beginning with P. One of the three is now extinct but the other two are quite familiar to us ; they are path and play . These were , in the eighth century , ex- ceptional words in English , from the fact that they began with P. And to ...
... beginning with P. One of the three is now extinct but the other two are quite familiar to us ; they are path and play . These were , in the eighth century , ex- ceptional words in English , from the fact that they began with P. And to ...
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