The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 18
... dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find that of the ...
... dialect somewhat tinctured with Latin . The Britons had been in subjection to Roman dominion for a space of between three and four centuries . This would naturally have left a trace upon their language . And hence we find that of the ...
Pagina 21
... dialects . This is the more re- markable , because most of the tree and plant names are common to us with the German , Dutch , Danish , & c . The words alder , apple , ash , aspen , beam , bean , beech , bere , birch , bloom , blossom ...
... dialects . This is the more re- markable , because most of the tree and plant names are common to us with the German , Dutch , Danish , & c . The words alder , apple , ash , aspen , beam , bean , beech , bere , birch , bloom , blossom ...
Pagina 22
... dialects must be taken into comparison on the one hand , and all the Keltic dialects on the other . The interesting question for us is - How far the British population at large was Romanised ? Some think that habits of speaking Latin ...
... dialects must be taken into comparison on the one hand , and all the Keltic dialects on the other . The interesting question for us is - How far the British population at large was Romanised ? Some think that habits of speaking Latin ...
Pagina 27
... dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct national language for the kingdom of Scotland . Barbour in his poem of the Bruce determined the character of modern Scottish , and cast it in a permanent mould , just as his contemporary ...
... dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct national language for the kingdom of Scotland . Barbour in his poem of the Bruce determined the character of modern Scottish , and cast it in a permanent mould , just as his contemporary ...
Pagina 30
... dialect became the literary medium of hitherto uncultured Wessex ; just as the dialect of the Latian cities set the form of the imperial language of Rome , and that language was called Latin . 29. Of this literary Englisc the Lord's ...
... dialect became the literary medium of hitherto uncultured Wessex ; just as the dialect of the Latian cities set the form of the imperial language of Rome , and that language was called Latin . 29. Of this literary Englisc the Lord's ...
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