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Pagina v
... verified I owe thanks for help to various friends , and to two more especially , for
perusing and annotating my sheets - affording me thereby not only useful hints ,
but also a support and encouragement that they probably had little intention of .
... verified I owe thanks for help to various friends , and to two more especially , for
perusing and annotating my sheets - affording me thereby not only useful hints ,
but also a support and encouragement that they probably had little intention of .
Pagina 3
The same word ( probably ) passing with an early migration westward is found in
the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants
, a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had ...
The same word ( probably ) passing with an early migration westward is found in
the Dartmoor Tors . It is to this sort of play upon the gamut or scale of consonants
, a play which is kept up between kindred dialects , that Grimm , when he had ...
Pagina 5
These have a tendency to be very permanent in languages , so that the
similarities which they now bear , they have most probably borne for an extended
length of time . And if so , it is reasonable to suppose that such analogies have
once ...
These have a tendency to be very permanent in languages , so that the
similarities which they now bear , they have most probably borne for an extended
length of time . And if so , it is reasonable to suppose that such analogies have
once ...
Pagina 18
CORPER , a troop , is probably the Latin cohors : CARCERN , a prison , is the
Latin carcer , with the Saxon word ern , a building , mingled into the last syllable :
TIGOL , a tile , is the Roman tegula : MEOWLE , a poetic word for woman , is most
...
CORPER , a troop , is probably the Latin cohors : CARCERN , a prison , is the
Latin carcer , with the Saxon word ern , a building , mingled into the last syllable :
TIGOL , a tile , is the Roman tegula : MEOWLE , a poetic word for woman , is most
...
Pagina 20
The first syllable in Winchester is known to us , through the Latin form of Venta , to
have been the same as the Welsh Gwent , a plain or open country . The first
syllable in Manchester is probably the old Keltic Man , place ; just as it probably is
in ...
The first syllable in Winchester is known to us , through the Latin form of Venta , to
have been the same as the Welsh Gwent , a plain or open country . The first
syllable in Manchester is probably the old Keltic Man , place ; just as it probably is
in ...
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