The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... sense with for , fore , forth , & c . : Tôλos , pullus and foal , filly : múg , pugnus and fist : Tarp , pater and father : névte and five , German fünf : πoús , pes and foot : pecus and feoh : pasco and feed : piscis and fish . If the ...
... sense with for , fore , forth , & c . : Tôλos , pullus and foal , filly : múg , pugnus and fist : Tarp , pater and father : névte and five , German fünf : πoús , pes and foot : pecus and feoh : pasco and feed : piscis and fish . If the ...
Pagina 8
... sense of to get married or to be married , you say se marier . Examples of the Danish passive form : - ACTIVE . At give , to give At elske , to love At finde , to find At faae , to get At drive , to drive PASSIVE . At gives , to be ...
... sense of to get married or to be married , you say se marier . Examples of the Danish passive form : - ACTIVE . At give , to give At elske , to love At finde , to find At faae , to get At drive , to drive PASSIVE . At gives , to be ...
Pagina 18
... 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 through ...
... 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 through ...
Pagina 19
... sense of ' to plough , till , cultivate ' ; which in the form ERIAN was the standard word for ploughing all through the Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still ...
... sense of ' to plough , till , cultivate ' ; which in the form ERIAN was the standard word for ploughing all through the Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still ...
Pagina 20
... sense cannot be so plainly traced , we acquiesce in the opinion that names are British , because their place in history seems to require it . Such are , for instance , Kent , London , Gloucester . We will add a few words that have a ...
... sense cannot be so plainly traced , we acquiesce in the opinion that names are British , because their place in history seems to require it . Such are , for instance , Kent , London , Gloucester . We will add a few words that have a ...
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