The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 2
... dialect , which we may call Phoenician , would in the same place put a T. The Hebrew pronoun for this is ZEH ; but in Chaldee it becomes DAA and DEN and DI : the Hebrew word for male is ZAKAR ; but in Chaldee it appears as DEKAR : the ...
... dialect , which we may call Phoenician , would in the same place put a T. The Hebrew pronoun for this is ZEH ; but in Chaldee it becomes DAA and DEN and DI : the Hebrew word for male is ZAKAR ; but in Chaldee it appears as DEKAR : the ...
Pagina 3
... dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort of law , gave the name of Lautverschiebung ; sound - shunting of consonantal equivalents ; reciprocity of consonants . As , on the one side , we find this reciprocity where we ...
... dialects , that Grimm , when he had reduced it to a sort of law , gave the name of Lautverschiebung ; sound - shunting of consonantal equivalents ; reciprocity of consonants . As , on the one side , we find this reciprocity where we ...
Pagina 4
... dialects 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 ...
... dialects 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 ...
Pagina 8
... dialects just add an s to the active , and that makes it passive . This s is a relic of an old reflective pro- noun , so that it is most like the French habit of getting a sort of a passive by prefixing the reflective pronoun se . Thus ...
... dialects just add an s to the active , and that makes it passive . This s is a relic of an old reflective pro- noun , so that it is most like the French habit of getting a sort of a passive by prefixing the reflective pronoun se . Thus ...
Pagina 12
... dialect . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart from this , it has a nobility and grandeur all its own , as it is one of the finest ...
... dialect . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart from this , it has a nobility and grandeur all its own , as it is one of the finest ...
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