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... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the vil- lages " of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Mallington , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home 14 Grimm , Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache , p . 666 . 15 Grimm ...
... originally such patronymics . Thus we have the vil- lages " of Malling , of Billing , & c . , or in compounds , Mallington , Billingborough . In Walsingham , the home 14 Grimm , Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache , p . 666 . 15 Grimm ...
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... originally from the domestic idiom of mothers , sisters , and servants at home . But whether the influence of the language of women be admitted on this large scale or not , certain it is , that through a thousand smaller channels their ...
... originally from the domestic idiom of mothers , sisters , and servants at home . But whether the influence of the language of women be admitted on this large scale or not , certain it is , that through a thousand smaller channels their ...
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... originally to count , to cast up . Lógos , used in the sense of reason , meant originally , like the English tale , or the German Zahl , ' * gathering ; for reason , though it penetrates into the depths of the sea and earth , elevates ...
... originally to count , to cast up . Lógos , used in the sense of reason , meant originally , like the English tale , or the German Zahl , ' * gathering ; for reason , though it penetrates into the depths of the sea and earth , elevates ...
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... originally alba . We arrive at the same result what- ever words we examine ; they always express a general quality , supposed to be peculiar to the ob- ject to which they are attached . In some cases this is quite clear , in others it ...
... originally alba . We arrive at the same result what- ever words we examine ; they always express a general quality , supposed to be peculiar to the ob- ject to which they are attached . In some cases this is quite clear , in others it ...
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... originally meant no more than things walking forward , became in time the name of cattle , and par- ticularly of sheep . In Sanskrit , sarit , meaning goer , from sar , to go , became the name of river ; sara , meaning the same , what ...
... originally meant no more than things walking forward , became in time the name of cattle , and par- ticularly of sheep . In Sanskrit , sarit , meaning goer , from sar , to go , became the name of river ; sara , meaning the same , what ...
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