The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 35
... old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian passed away , and instead of it we find the expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the ...
... old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian passed away , and instead of it we find the expression to be buxom , and this yielded to the ...
Pagina 36
... old Saxon as in modern English , but yet it has altered in grammatical habit , in application , and in convertible 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 convertible use . In grammatical habit it has altered ; for in Saxon it had a genitive mannes , a dative men , an ( archaic ) ...
Pagina 37
... old pronoun . No other of the great languages labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest - moving of words , which has not altered in its spelling , and which is yet ... ANGLO - SAXON . 37.
... old pronoun . No other of the great languages labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest - moving of words , which has not altered in its spelling , and which is yet ... ANGLO - SAXON . 37.
Pagina 39
... old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit . We have not utterly lost the last vestiges of it , for it does reappear now and then in ... ANGLO - SAXON . 39.
... old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit . We have not utterly lost the last vestiges of it , for it does reappear now and then in ... ANGLO - SAXON . 39.
Pagina 40
... Saxon books are but as a few scattered splinters of the old Anglo - Saxon literature . Even if we had no other proof of the fact , the capability to which the language had arrived would alone be sufficient to assure us that it must have ...
... Saxon books are but as a few scattered splinters of the old Anglo - Saxon literature . Even if we had no other proof of the fact , the capability to which the language had arrived would alone be sufficient to assure us that it must have ...
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