The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 6-10 di 30
Pagina 101
... ( plural ) , and also RUN - STAFAs , Rune - staves , or , as we should now speak , Runic characters . This word RUN signified mystery or secret ; and a verb of this root was in use down to a comparatively recent date in English literature ...
... ( plural ) , and also RUN - STAFAs , Rune - staves , or , as we should now speak , Runic characters . This word RUN signified mystery or secret ; and a verb of this root was in use down to a comparatively recent date in English literature ...
Pagina 149
... plural verb are like the word air . The following quotation from Wordsworth , Thoughts near the Residence of Burns , exhibits it in rhyme with prayer- bear - share : - - But why to him confine the prayer , When kindred thoughts and ...
... plural verb are like the word air . The following quotation from Wordsworth , Thoughts near the Residence of Burns , exhibits it in rhyme with prayer- bear - share : - - But why to him confine the prayer , When kindred thoughts and ...
Pagina 151
... plural pease . In the sixteenth century pease was singular , and peason or peasen was plural , as we see in the following passages from Surrey : - ' All men might well dispraise My wit and enterprise , If I esteemed a pease Above a ...
... plural pease . In the sixteenth century pease was singular , and peason or peasen was plural , as we see in the following passages from Surrey : - ' All men might well dispraise My wit and enterprise , If I esteemed a pease Above a ...
Pagina 172
... plural , Matt . xxviii . 9 , ' Hale wese ge ' = ' Hale be ye ! = And so still in Layamon's Brut ( vol . iii . p . 162 ) where the variety of spelling is observable : Hail seo pu Gurgmund ; hal seo þu hadene king . heil seo þin duzeðe ...
... plural , Matt . xxviii . 9 , ' Hale wese ge ' = ' Hale be ye ! = And so still in Layamon's Brut ( vol . iii . p . 162 ) where the variety of spelling is observable : Hail seo pu Gurgmund ; hal seo þu hadene king . heil seo þin duzeðe ...
Pagina 184
... plural form of substantives , it is impossible , according to grammatical rules , to deny it the quality of substantives ; for the adjective has no plural form in English grammar . There- fore the words irrationals and comestibles in ...
... plural form of substantives , it is impossible , according to grammatical rules , to deny it the quality of substantives ; for the adjective has no plural form in English grammar . There- fore the words irrationals and comestibles in ...
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
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