The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 34
... plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a dative plural mannum . Of these it has lost the whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was equally applicable to womankind ...
... plural men , a genitive plural manna , and a dative plural mannum . Of these it has lost the whole , except the formation of the simple plural . In application it has altered ; for in Saxon times man was equally applicable to womankind ...
Pagina 35
... plural ( WORD ) , but it has now been long assimilated to other nouns , and forms its plural by D 2 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 35.
... plural ( WORD ) , but it has now been long assimilated to other nouns , and forms its plural by D 2 OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 35.
Pagina 36
John Earle. assimilated to other nouns , and forms its plural by the addition of an s ( WORDS ) . Thing . This word had much the same vague and ab- stract use in Saxon as it has now . “ On mang pisum þingum ' : among these things . ' Ic ...
John Earle. assimilated to other nouns , and forms its plural by the addition of an s ( WORDS ) . Thing . This word had much the same vague and ab- stract use in Saxon as it has now . “ On mang pisum þingum ' : among these things . ' Ic ...
Pagina 67
... plural of substantives in -ena ( Anglo - Saxon ) , and of adjectives in -ra . This ena drooped into the more languid -ene ; and the -ra appeared as -er or -r . Of the latter we shall have occasion to speak when we come to Chaucer ...
... plural of substantives in -ena ( Anglo - Saxon ) , and of adjectives in -ra . This ena drooped into the more languid -ene ; and the -ra appeared as -er or -r . Of the latter we shall have occasion to speak when we come to Chaucer ...
Pagina 85
... plural , be- soingnes . Compare the modern French , Faites votre besogne , ' Do your duty . ' It is possible that the word busy may have had that sort of share in the production of the great English word business which may be called the ...
... plural , be- soingnes . Compare the modern French , Faites votre besogne , ' Do your duty . ' It is possible that the word busy may have had that sort of share in the production of the great English word business which may be called the ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew Henry VI illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observed onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader retained rhyme rhythm Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing written þæt þat