The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 427
John Earle. word ' number ' being in the nature of a mere prefix , as is felt when we look at the oblique - cased Latin word which the French use in this connection . 6 ' En Angleterre , ' said a cynical Dutch diplomatist , numero deux ...
John Earle. word ' number ' being in the nature of a mere prefix , as is felt when we look at the oblique - cased Latin word which the French use in this connection . 6 ' En Angleterre , ' said a cynical Dutch diplomatist , numero deux ...
Pagina 475
... prefix un- , which has lived through the Saxon and English period without much change . 606 a . It has always been a pecu- liarly expressive formula , and often strikingly poetical . ungrene . Folde was pa gyt Græs un grene , garsecg ...
... prefix un- , which has lived through the Saxon and English period without much change . 606 a . It has always been a pecu- liarly expressive formula , and often strikingly poetical . ungrene . Folde was pa gyt Græs un grene , garsecg ...
Pagina 476
... prefix so well known in our borrowed Latin words , as indelible , in- tolerable , invincible , inextinguishable . In Greek it appears in the prefix an- , as in our borrowed Greek words , anecdote untold before , anodyne which cancels ...
... prefix so well known in our borrowed Latin words , as indelible , in- tolerable , invincible , inextinguishable . In Greek it appears in the prefix an- , as in our borrowed Greek words , anecdote untold before , anodyne which cancels ...
Pagina 517
... prefixes now used as separable suffixes ; thus Gower , in the Fifth Book of the Confessio Amantis , says that the king ... prefix be- , and both at first meant about , around . But this signification being lost sight of , we find that ...
... prefixes now used as separable suffixes ; thus Gower , in the Fifth Book of the Confessio Amantis , says that the king ... prefix be- , and both at first meant about , around . But this signification being lost sight of , we find that ...
Pagina 518
John Earle. prefixes we see the relics of a time when the adverb stood before the verb . In the living English language the adverb has taken the opposite stand . LEFT . alight upheave RIGHT . get off heave up We retain comparatively few ...
John Earle. prefixes we see the relics of a time when the adverb stood before the verb . In the living English language the adverb has taken the opposite stand . LEFT . alight upheave RIGHT . get off heave up We retain comparatively few ...
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