Lectures on the Science of Language, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - Comparative linguistics |
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... look to Polynesia and South Africa if we would find the clue to the mysteries of Aryan speech , originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strengthened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hotten- tots ...
... look to Polynesia and South Africa if we would find the clue to the mysteries of Aryan speech , originally came . This supposition , indeed , is strengthened by the resemblance which appears to subsist between the Copts and Hotten- tots ...
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... , The Sanskrit Language , as the Basis of Lin- guistic Science , and the Labours of the German School in that field , are they not overvalued ? ' 10 L. c . p . 256 . is to them that we must look , if we NEW THEORIES . 13.
... , The Sanskrit Language , as the Basis of Lin- guistic Science , and the Labours of the German School in that field , are they not overvalued ? ' 10 L. c . p . 256 . is to them that we must look , if we NEW THEORIES . 13.
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Friedrich Max Müller. is to them that we must look , if we wish for a com- pass to guide us through the most violent storms and hurricanes of philological speculation . " I thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of ...
Friedrich Max Müller. is to them that we must look , if we wish for a com- pass to guide us through the most violent storms and hurricanes of philological speculation . " I thought it best , therefore , to devote the present course of ...
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... look to Anglo - Saxon , we find the termi- nation ing used- ( 1 ) To form patronymics - for instance , Godvulf- ing , the son of Godvulf . In the A.S. translation of the Bible , the son of Elisha is called Elising . In the plural these ...
... look to Anglo - Saxon , we find the termi- nation ing used- ( 1 ) To form patronymics - for instance , Godvulf- ing , the son of Godvulf . In the A.S. translation of the Bible , the son of Elisha is called Elising . In the plural these ...
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... look on the modern participle in English as origin- ally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substan- tives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle ...
... look on the modern participle in English as origin- ally an adjective in ing , such popular phrases as a - going , a - thinking , point rather to the verbal substan- tives in ing as the source from which the modern English participle ...
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alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon articulate Aryan languages aspirates Asvins breath bright Brücke called Celtic Chinese consonantal consonants Curtius Dawn deity dental derived dialects distinct doubt English etymology explain express French Germ German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's Law guages guttural Hawaian hence Homer horses idea Indra instance Italian Kafir Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial Latin Lectures letters likewise Maruts meaning meant originally metaphor modern mythology nations nature never noun Old High-German Old Norse onomatopoeia palate participle peculiar phonetic Polynesian Polynesian languages Pott Professor pronounced pronunciation Rigveda riksha Roman Sanskrit Saramâ Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense Slavonic soft sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spiritus lenis spoken stars suffix supposed syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tongue trace Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τὸ τῶν