Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... German , end - e ; Modern High - German , end ) . This was pre- served as late as Gower's and Chaucer's time , 13 though 12 Archdeacon Hare , Words corrupted by False Analogy or False Deri- vation , p . 65 . נו Pointis and sleves be wel ...
... German , end - e ; Modern High - German , end ) . This was pre- served as late as Gower's and Chaucer's time , 13 though 12 Archdeacon Hare , Words corrupted by False Analogy or False Deri- vation , p . 65 . נו Pointis and sleves be wel ...
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... German names , such as Göttingen in Hanover , Harlingen in Holland , we have old genitives plural , in the sense of ' the home of the Gottings , the home of the Har- lings , ' & c.19 ( 2 ) Ing is used to form more general attributive ...
... German names , such as Göttingen in Hanover , Harlingen in Holland , we have old genitives plural , in the sense of ' the home of the Gottings , the home of the Har- lings , ' & c.19 ( 2 ) Ing is used to form more general attributive ...
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... German dialects which are supposed to contain some admixture of Low- German elements . Secondly , what has to be explained is not only the consonantal change from ende to ing , which is said to have taken place in Henneberg , but the co ...
... German dialects which are supposed to contain some admixture of Low- German elements . Secondly , what has to be explained is not only the consonantal change from ende to ing , which is said to have taken place in Henneberg , but the co ...
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... German clock , still a repairing , ever out of frame . ( Did . iii . 1. ) In all these cases a modern English poet would drop the preposition 4 , which stands for Anglo - Saxon on . ( See Mätzner , Englische Grammatik , i . p . 400 ...
... German clock , still a repairing , ever out of frame . ( Did . iii . 1. ) In all these cases a modern English poet would drop the preposition 4 , which stands for Anglo - Saxon on . ( See Mätzner , Englische Grammatik , i . p . 400 ...
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... German we find the High and the Low German ; in Celtic , the Gadhelic and Cymric , as in India the Sanskrit and Prâkrit ; and it is by no means an unlikely explanation , that , as Grimm suggested in the case of High and Low German , so ...
... German we find the High and the Low German ; in Celtic , the Gadhelic and Cymric , as in India the Sanskrit and Prâkrit ; and it is by no means an unlikely explanation , that , as Grimm suggested in the case of High and Low German , so ...
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