The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 39
... compounds for a while . At length however , in the tenth and eleventh centuries , a vast influx of these compounds rushed suddenly into the language . In this second class of BE- compounded verbs only a faint sense belongs to the prefix ...
... compounds for a while . At length however , in the tenth and eleventh centuries , a vast influx of these compounds rushed suddenly into the language . In this second class of BE- compounded verbs only a faint sense belongs to the prefix ...
Pagina 82
... Compounds of the most close and per- manent kind were formed bilingually . Some of them exist in the present English . In ... compound means to sit around a place . The old word which this hybrid sup- planted was besittan , from which we ...
... Compounds of the most close and per- manent kind were formed bilingually . Some of them exist in the present English . In ... compound means to sit around a place . The old word which this hybrid sup- planted was besittan , from which we ...
Pagina 114
... compound of the particle a with knowledge , the c expressing the reverberation of the K - sound . So also in lack , crack , Jack , & c . , and the old - fashioned spellings of politick , asthetick , & c . , CK may be taken as equivalent ...
... compound of the particle a with knowledge , the c expressing the reverberation of the K - sound . So also in lack , crack , Jack , & c . , and the old - fashioned spellings of politick , asthetick , & c . , CK may be taken as equivalent ...
Pagina 136
... compound state . It is the same principle that causes us , when we say , very much or quite well to lay the stress on much and well , because these are the leading words , to which very and quite are subordinate as qualifying adverbs ...
... compound state . It is the same principle that causes us , when we say , very much or quite well to lay the stress on much and well , because these are the leading words , to which very and quite are subordinate as qualifying adverbs ...
Pagina 138
John Earle. : Saxon , e . g . all the disyllabic compounds beginning with be- become , before , beware , beyond ... compound of fore like before , instead of with for , which is the fact ; and for this reason some American books now ...
John Earle. : Saxon , e . g . all the disyllabic compounds beginning with be- become , before , beware , beyond ... compound of fore like before , instead of with for , which is the fact ; and for this reason some American books now ...
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