The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 32
... sense of the passage depends upon them in English , often to such a degree that if one of these were to be changed , the sense would be completely overturned . The Latin has no words corresponding to these little words , but it has an ...
... sense of the passage depends upon them in English , often to such a degree that if one of these were to be changed , the sense would be completely overturned . The Latin has no words corresponding to these little words , but it has an ...
Pagina 36
... sense attached to it was not as now , that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French Exercises comes to the sentence ' Can you swim ?? he is directed to render it into French by Savez vous nager ? ' that is ...
... sense attached to it was not as now , that of possibility , but of knowledge and skill . When a boy in his French Exercises comes to the sentence ' Can you swim ?? he is directed to render it into French by Savez vous nager ? ' that is ...
Pagina 38
... sense in our compound verb WITHSTAND , which means to stand against , to oppose . We have all but lost the old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit ...
... sense in our compound verb WITHSTAND , which means to stand against , to oppose . We have all but lost the old preposition which stood where the ordinary WITH now stands . It was MID , and it still keeps its old place in the German mit ...
Pagina 39
... sense of BE is in bereave , Saxon bereafian , literally to strip off the clothing ( reaf ) round about or from about a person . Το this class belong the following : beheafdian , to behead ; be- landian or belendan , to deprive of land ...
... sense of BE is in bereave , Saxon bereafian , literally to strip off the clothing ( reaf ) round about or from about a person . Το this class belong the following : beheafdian , to behead ; be- landian or belendan , to deprive of land ...
Pagina 40
... sense of about is clearly discernible . The same is the bi in the noun biword , a proverb , a good word lost to us , but retained by the Germans , Beiwort . But we see it figuring as a mere vague prefix in the modern because , besides ...
... sense of about is clearly discernible . The same is the bi in the noun biword , a proverb , a good word lost to us , but retained by the Germans , Beiwort . But we see it figuring as a mere vague prefix in the modern because , besides ...
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