The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 127
... preterite of dig . Also the original preterite of the verb to sting I heard from the mouth of a little maid of four years old , who said to her father , in rich tones of genial enquiry which writing cannot render : ' If a bee stang you ...
... preterite of dig . Also the original preterite of the verb to sting I heard from the mouth of a little maid of four years old , who said to her father , in rich tones of genial enquiry which writing cannot render : ' If a bee stang you ...
Pagina 160
... preterite of reach , and equivalent of our reached ) with a w . Speaking of Adam stretching forth his hand to pick the for- bidden fruit , he says , ' he wrought life and died the death . ' That is to say , he raught , or snatched at ...
... preterite of reach , and equivalent of our reached ) with a w . Speaking of Adam stretching forth his hand to pick the for- bidden fruit , he says , ' he wrought life and died the death . ' That is to say , he raught , or snatched at ...
Pagina 172
... preterite , and equivalent to ate , had a sound unlike our present pronuncia- tion of feat . This , with the derivation of the latter from the French fait , suggests the sounds fayt and ayt . 172 11. SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION .
... preterite , and equivalent to ate , had a sound unlike our present pronuncia- tion of feat . This , with the derivation of the latter from the French fait , suggests the sounds fayt and ayt . 172 11. SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION .
Pagina 231
... preterite should . Its common symbolic use is illustrated in the following quotation : - Labourers indeed were still striving with employers about the rate of wages as they have striven to this very day , and will continue to strive to ...
... preterite should . Its common symbolic use is illustrated in the following quotation : - Labourers indeed were still striving with employers about the rate of wages as they have striven to this very day , and will continue to strive to ...
Pagina 260
... preterite by an internal vowel - change , without any external addition . The regulating law of this vowel - change is called Ablaut , and has been ex- plained above , 123. This character supplies a basis for the division of the verbs ...
... preterite by an internal vowel - change , without any external addition . The regulating law of this vowel - change is called Ablaut , and has been ex- plained above , 123. This character supplies a basis for the division of the verbs ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient become belongs Bible called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonants Danish dative dialects distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression Faery Queene familiar flat adverb flexion following quotation French words function genitival genitive German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek habit haue Hebrew illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble John Milton King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation relics rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces verb vowel William Cowper writing þat