The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 42
... present language , a mustering of its words in groups , and a close observation of the nature and character of those which the two races have severally contributed to it . Thus we should confidently conclude that the Norman was the ...
... present language , a mustering of its words in groups , and a close observation of the nature and character of those which the two races have severally contributed to it . Thus we should confidently conclude that the Norman was the ...
Pagina 43
... present social condition of England , consent in bearing witness . - Study of Words , 12th ed . , 1867 , pp . 98-100 . 42. This duplicate system of words in English was the result of a long period during which the country was in a ...
... present social condition of England , consent in bearing witness . - Study of Words , 12th ed . , 1867 , pp . 98-100 . 42. This duplicate system of words in English was the result of a long period during which the country was in a ...
Pagina 44
John Earle. the frontier of the English and Welsh in the present day large numbers of people have a practical acquaintance with both languages , while they can talk in one only . This it is which has brought down upon the rustic Welsh ...
John Earle. the frontier of the English and Welsh in the present day large numbers of people have a practical acquaintance with both languages , while they can talk in one only . This it is which has brought down upon the rustic Welsh ...
Pagina 46
... present day . So among the tribes of Israel at the time of the Judges , it was a peculiarity of the tongue of the Ephraimites that they could not frame to pronounce sh , but said Sibboleth instead of Shibboleth . This is so distinct a ...
... present day . So among the tribes of Israel at the time of the Judges , it was a peculiarity of the tongue of the Ephraimites that they could not frame to pronounce sh , but said Sibboleth instead of Shibboleth . This is so distinct a ...
Pagina 56
... present day the English terms for games of chance are of French extraction . Dice were seen in every hall , and were then called by the same name as now . Cards , though a later invention , namely , of the thirteenth or beginning of the ...
... present day the English terms for games of chance are of French extraction . Dice were seen in every hall , and were then called by the same name as now . Cards , though a later invention , namely , of the thirteenth or beginning of the ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat