The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 11
... High Dutch to spell many words with P instead of B , goes to sustain our law , which requires the High Dutch to have a thin consonant where Low Dutch has a middle . These illustrations of the reciprocity of con- sonants are not co ...
... High Dutch to spell many words with P instead of B , goes to sustain our law , which requires the High Dutch to have a thin consonant where Low Dutch has a middle . These illustrations of the reciprocity of con- sonants are not co ...
Pagina 15
... High Dutch ; and unless we suppose Rolf to have learnt Englisc , which seems a romantic hypothesis , we have the interesting testimony that the Franks saw little or no distinction between Englisc and Danish 1 . A great deal may be said ...
... High Dutch ; and unless we suppose Rolf to have learnt Englisc , which seems a romantic hypothesis , we have the interesting testimony that the Franks saw little or no distinction between Englisc and Danish 1 . A great deal may be said ...
Pagina 16
... High or Low Dutch - is an indication that our ancestors can hardly be classed as pure and unaltered Teutons . The ... the Netherlands . The people of Bremen call their dialect Nieder - Sächisch , i.e. Lowland - Saxon ; and the genuine ...
... High or Low Dutch - is an indication that our ancestors can hardly be classed as pure and unaltered Teutons . The ... the Netherlands . The people of Bremen call their dialect Nieder - Sächisch , i.e. Lowland - Saxon ; and the genuine ...
Pagina 109
... high , night , might , light , & c . In short , the name of Igh does not represent truly the general use of this ... German form is Ich , the Dutch Ik , the Danish Jeg , and the Swedish Jag . So that in fact the name we have bestowed on ...
... high , night , might , light , & c . In short , the name of Igh does not represent truly the general use of this ... German form is Ich , the Dutch Ik , the Danish Jeg , and the Swedish Jag . So that in fact the name we have bestowed on ...
Pagina 172
... High Dutch . In the early examples it always appears gram- matically as an adjective of health joined with the verb to be in the imperative . In the Saxon Version of the Gospels , Luke i . 28 , ' Hal was du ' ' Hale be thou ! ' and in ...
... High Dutch . In the early examples it always appears gram- matically as an adjective of health joined with the verb to be in the imperative . In the Saxon Version of the Gospels , Luke i . 28 , ' Hal was du ' ' Hale be thou ! ' and in ...
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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