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Pagina 4
... word begins with P the English word begins with F. Examples : irvp and fire:
irpo, irptaros, 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, ...
... word begins with P the English word begins with F. Examples : irvp and fire:
irpo, irptaros, 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, ...
Pagina 8
Thus in French marier is to marry (active), of parents who marry their children ;
but if you have to express to marry in the sense of to get married or to be married,
you say se marier. Examples of the Danish passive form : — ACTIVE. PASSIVE.
Thus in French marier is to marry (active), of parents who marry their children ;
but if you have to express to marry in the sense of to get married or to be married,
you say se marier. Examples of the Danish passive form : — ACTIVE. PASSIVE.
Pagina 18
And this is the sense of it in such a 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 ...
And this is the sense of it in such a 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 ...
Pagina 32
There are no words in the Latin answering to these little words which are
italicised in the English version — a, the. to, of, be — yet the very sense of the
passage depends upon them in English, often to such a degree that if one of
these were to ...
There are no words in the Latin answering to these little words which are
italicised in the English version — a, the. to, of, be — yet the very sense of the
passage depends upon them in English, often to such a degree that if one of
these were to ...
Pagina 38
WITH in Saxon meant against, and we have still a relic of that sense in our
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.
WITH in Saxon meant against, and we have still a relic of that sense in our
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.
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accent adjective adverb already altered ancient appears become beginning belongs called cause century character Chaucer close common compared compound conjunction continued dialect distinction early effect element English example existence expression fact familiar flexion French function German give grammatical Greek habit hand idea illustration indicate infinitive inflections instances interjection kind King language Latin less letter literature look lost manner means mind nature never noun observe once original passed perhaps period person philological plural poetry position preposition present probably pronoun pronunciation Queene reader reason regard represented retained Saxon seems seen sense sentence sometimes sort sound speak speech spelling stand strong substantive syllable symbolic taken term thing thou thought tion traces translation true verb vowel whole word writing written
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Philology of the English Tongue Clarendon Press series |
| Autore | John Earle |
| Editore | Clarendon Press, 1871 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Università di Princeton |
| Digitalizzato | 3 mar 2009 |
| Lunghezza | 599 pagine |
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