The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 18
... syllable : TIGOL , a tile , is the Roman tegula : MEOWLE , a poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin fæmina . ' Orchard , ' in Saxon ORT - GEARD , is a ...
... syllable : TIGOL , a tile , is the Roman tegula : MEOWLE , a poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin fæmina . ' Orchard , ' in Saxon ORT - GEARD , is a ...
Pagina 20
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 24
... syllable in Cornwall , for the Kelts who dwelt there were by the Saxons named the Walas of Kernyw . The feminine form of weal or wealh , a foreigner , was wylen ; and it is an illustration of the servile condition to which the old ...
... syllable in Cornwall , for the Kelts who dwelt there were by the Saxons named the Walas of Kernyw . The feminine form of weal or wealh , a foreigner , was wylen ; and it is an illustration of the servile condition to which the old ...
Pagina 60
... syllable lines , a measure which thenceforward became famous in literature , and took the name of ' Alexandrine , ' after this romance . The English version was made some time in the thirteenth century , in a lax tetrameter . It was not ...
... syllable lines , a measure which thenceforward became famous in literature , and took the name of ' Alexandrine , ' after this romance . The English version was made some time in the thirteenth century , in a lax tetrameter . It was not ...
Pagina 62
... syllable ballad - metre : • = Hou longe ssolle hor luper heued above hor ssoldren be ? ' Morris , Specimens , p . 66 . How long - a shall their hated heads Above their shoulders be ? = Perhaps this may have been a difference in the ...
... syllable ballad - metre : • = Hou longe ssolle hor luper heued above hor ssoldren be ? ' Morris , Specimens , p . 66 . How long - a shall their hated heads Above their shoulders be ? = Perhaps this may have been a difference in the ...
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