The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... English word begins with F. Examples : Tuρ and fire : прó , прŵτоя , primus , compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth , & c ...
... English word begins with F. Examples : Tuρ and fire : прó , прŵτоя , primus , compared with the Saxon words fruma , frem ; with the modern preposition from , which is of the same root and original sense with for , fore , forth , & c ...
Pagina 6
... Modern or But if such a relation as that which is condensed in the above mnemonic is clearly established as existing between the Classical languages on the one hand , and the Gothic on the other ; much more distinctly and largely may it ...
... Modern or But if such a relation as that which is condensed in the above mnemonic is clearly established as existing between the Classical languages on the one hand , and the Gothic on the other ; much more distinctly and largely may it ...
Pagina 7
... Modern Danish or Swedish the inde- finite article a or an is represented by en for masculine and feminine , and et for neuter . Thus en skov signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the ...
... Modern Danish or Swedish the inde- finite article a or an is represented by en for masculine and feminine , and et for neuter . Thus en skov signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the ...
Pagina 23
... modern bed - ridden , a half - sister of hag - ridden . be - drida , a disordered man , We can never expect to know with anything like precision what were the relations of the British and Saxon languages to each other and to the Latin ...
... modern bed - ridden , a half - sister of hag - ridden . be - drida , a disordered man , We can never expect to know with anything like precision what were the relations of the British and Saxon languages to each other and to the Latin ...
Pagina 28
... modern name from its northern neighbours it should have furnished a parallel to the adoption of the name ' English ' by the West Saxons . Wessex had not been entirely destitute of men of learning during the period in which the focus of ...
... modern name from its northern neighbours it should have furnished a parallel to the adoption of the name ' English ' by the West Saxons . Wessex had not been entirely destitute of men of learning during the period in which the focus of ...
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