The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account ...
... Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not very irregular to call the whole nation briefly SAXON . We have no contemporary account ...
Pagina 21
... Anglo - Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet . See a spirited passage in the Saxon Chronicle of Peterborough , A. D. 1131 , and my note there . Thence it was applied to the seed - bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems ...
... Anglo - Saxon times it meant a bag , a purse or wallet . See a spirited passage in the Saxon Chronicle of Peterborough , A. D. 1131 , and my note there . Thence it was applied to the seed - bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems ...
Pagina 23
... Saxons prevented this island from being the home of a Romanesque people like the French or Spanish . The British language as now spoken in Wales , is called , by those who speak it , Cymraeg . But the Anglo - Saxons called it Wylsc ...
... Saxons prevented this island from being the home of a Romanesque people like the French or Spanish . The British language as now spoken in Wales , is called , by those who speak it , Cymraeg . But the Anglo - Saxons called it Wylsc ...
Pagina 32
... Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan gebiddan mid þæra welera styrung- um on stilnesse . With uplifted eyes ...
... Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan gebiddan mid þæra welera styrung- um on stilnesse . With uplifted eyes ...
Pagina 37
... Saxon : Canst þu pone preost þe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? " On , the preposition , exists in Saxon , but its area of in- cidence has shifted . We often find that an Anglo - Saxon ON cannot ...
... Saxon : Canst þu pone preost þe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? " On , the preposition , exists in Saxon , but its area of in- cidence has shifted . We often find that an Anglo - Saxon ON cannot ...
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