The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... Compounds 1. Compounds of the First Order 2. Compounds of the Second Order 3. Compounds of the Third Order CHAPTER XII . Of Prosody , or the Musical Element in Speech . 1. Of Sound as an Illustrative Agency 2. Of Sound as a Formative ...
... Compounds 1. Compounds of the First Order 2. Compounds of the Second Order 3. Compounds of the Third Order CHAPTER XII . Of Prosody , or the Musical Element in Speech . 1. Of Sound as an Illustrative Agency 2. Of Sound as a Formative ...
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... 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 of the Saxon colonisa- tion . The story which Bæda gives us in 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 of the Saxon colonisa- tion . The story which Bæda gives us in the ...
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... compound as Newport Pagnell . WALL ( Saxon weall ) is through the same filtered process a descendant of the Latin vallum = a rampart : MIL , from the Latin milia ( pas- suum ) , a thousand paces , has lived through all the ages to our ...
... compound as Newport Pagnell . WALL ( Saxon weall ) is through the same filtered process a descendant of the Latin vallum = a rampart : MIL , from the Latin milia ( pas- suum ) , a thousand paces , has lived through all the ages to our ...
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... compound cock - boat is probably a tautological com- pound , of which the first part is the Welsh cwch , a boat . The word has several derivatives in Welsh . The word clock , which signifies bell in German ( Glocke ) and in French ...
... compound cock - boat is probably a tautological com- pound , of which the first part is the Welsh cwch , a boat . The word has several derivatives in Welsh . The word clock , which signifies bell in German ( Glocke ) and in French ...
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... compound verb WITHSTAND , which means to stand against , to oppose . We have all but lost the old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit . We have not ...
... compound verb WITHSTAND , which means to stand against , to oppose . We have all but lost the old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit . We have not ...
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