The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... German word Amt are intended to bracket together the initial letters of Thins , Medials , and Aspirates , so as to represent the order of transition . In the use of this scheme , we will suppose the student to be enquiring after the ...
... German word Amt are intended to bracket together the initial letters of Thins , Medials , and Aspirates , so as to represent the order of transition . In the use of this scheme , we will suppose the student to be enquiring after the ...
Pagina 7
... German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the consonantal analogies which existed between English and German , I should prefer as a general rule to go to the oldest form of German , because a conventional ...
... German language offers many examples of this . If I want to understand the consonantal analogies which existed between English and German , I should prefer as a general rule to go to the oldest form of German , because a conventional ...
Pagina 8
... German , ' the great literary language of Central Europe , inaugurated by Luther in his translation of the Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language ...
... German , ' the great literary language of Central Europe , inaugurated by Luther in his translation of the Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language ...
Pagina 10
... Dutch on the one hand , and the Low Dutch on the other , may be symbolised by writing the German word samt over the English word tame , thus- samt t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is ΙΟ THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... Dutch on the one hand , and the Low Dutch on the other , may be symbolised by writing the German word samt over the English word tame , thus- samt t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is ΙΟ THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
Pagina 11
... German word , represent the High Dutch side of the comparison . The combination of fa is useful as a reminder that in High Dutch the sibilant s or is the substitute for an aspirated dental ( such as our th ) which that language does not ...
... German word , represent the High Dutch side of the comparison . The combination of fa is useful as a reminder that in High Dutch the sibilant s or is the substitute for an aspirated dental ( such as our th ) which that language does not ...
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