The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 18
... old Keltic leuga . In Saxon poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of mil - padas , the mile - paths . CORNER , a troop , is probably the Latin cohors : CARCERN , a prison , is the Latin carcer , with the Saxon ...
... old Keltic leuga . In Saxon poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of mil - padas , the mile - paths . CORNER , a troop , is probably the Latin cohors : CARCERN , a prison , is the Latin carcer , with the Saxon ...
Pagina 19
... Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still in force sufficient to retain five places in our version of the Old Testament , as may be seen by reference to Cruden's ...
... Saxon period , a word which occurs in Shak- speare , and which in the opening of the seventeenth century was still in force sufficient to retain five places in our version of the Old Testament , as may be seen by reference to Cruden's ...
Pagina 20
... Saxon— because , in short , they cannot otherwise be accounted for . Such are , Thames , Tamar , Frome , Derwent , Trent , Tweed , Severn , and the bulk of our great river - names . In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some ...
... Saxon— because , in short , they cannot otherwise be accounted for . Such are , Thames , Tamar , Frome , Derwent , Trent , Tweed , Severn , and the bulk of our great river - names . In like manner of the oldest town - names , and some ...
Pagina 34
... old Saxon as in modern English , but yet it has altered in grammatical habit , in application , and in con- vertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) ...
... old Saxon as in modern English , but yet it has altered in grammatical habit , in application , and in con- vertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) ...
Pagina 35
... English speakers or writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . There is not one of the great languages which labours under a like inability . So far about the word man ...
... English speakers or writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . There is not one of the great languages which labours under a like inability . So far about the word man ...
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