The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the tree , you suffix the selfsame articles to the nouns , and then they have the effect of the definite article : skoven , the wood ; træet , the ...
... signifies a wood ( shaw ) and et træ signifies a tree . But if you want to say the wood , the tree , you suffix the selfsame articles to the nouns , and then they have the effect of the definite article : skoven , the wood ; træet , the ...
Pagina 18
... signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town . ' 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 ...
... signified in Saxon times just a town , a market - town . ' 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 ...
Pagina 22
... signifies bell in German ( Glocke ) and in French ( cloche ) , is undoubtedly British . A bell in Welsh is cloch , in Gaelic clag , and in Manx clag . But then this word did not come into our language ( probably ) till the twelfth ...
... signifies bell in German ( Glocke ) and in French ( cloche ) , is undoubtedly British . A bell in Welsh is cloch , in Gaelic clag , and in Manx clag . But then this word did not come into our language ( probably ) till the twelfth ...
Pagina 24
... signify male and female slaves . About the year A.D. 600 , Christianity began to be received by the Saxons . The Jutish kingdom of Kent was the first that received the Gospel , but the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria exhibited the first ...
... signify male and female slaves . About the year A.D. 600 , Christianity began to be received by the Saxons . The Jutish kingdom of Kent was the first that received the Gospel , but the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria exhibited the first ...
Pagina 86
... signified a spring of water , or running stream ; and , as such streams were often taken as the divisions between adjoining properties , bourne hence came to mean a boundary or limit . ' The two words of which we have here at least an ...
... signified a spring of water , or running stream ; and , as such streams were often taken as the divisions between adjoining properties , bourne hence came to mean a boundary or limit . ' The two words of which we have here at least an ...
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