The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... Saxons , and our language Saxonish . It has become the literary habit of recent times to use the term ' Saxon ' as a distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for ...
... Saxons , and our language Saxonish . It has become the literary habit of recent times to use the term ' Saxon ' as a distinction for the early period of our history and language and literature , and to reserve the term ' English ' for ...
Pagina 18
... Saxon . § 2. Domestic relations . 18. We have no contemporary account of the Saxon colonisation . The story which Bada gives us in the eighth century , is , that there were people from three tribes , Angles , Saxons , and Jutes . The ...
... Saxon . § 2. Domestic relations . 18. We have no contemporary account of the Saxon colonisation . The story which Bada gives us in the eighth century , is , that there were people from three tribes , Angles , Saxons , and Jutes . The ...
Pagina 19
... Saxon times . just a town , a market - town : ' 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 : mile , Saxon MIL ...
... Saxon times . just a town , a market - town : ' 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 : mile , Saxon MIL ...
Pagina 20
... Saxon - because , in short , they cannot otherwise be accounted for . Such are , Thames , Tamar , Frome , Derwent , Trent , Tweed , Severn , and the bulk of our river - names . 20. In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some ...
... Saxon - because , in short , they cannot otherwise be accounted for . Such are , Thames , Tamar , Frome , Derwent , Trent , Tweed , Severn , and the bulk of our river - names . 20. In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some ...
Pagina 21
... Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet1 . Thence it was applied to the seed- bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems to be the Welsh cwd . The puff - ball is in Welsh cwd - y - mwg , bag of smoke . Owen Pughe quotes this ...
... Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet1 . Thence it was applied to the seed- bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems to be the Welsh cwd . The puff - ball is in Welsh cwd - y - mwg , bag of smoke . Owen Pughe quotes this ...
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