 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1861 - 420 pages
...the Semitic roots, reduced to their simplest form, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same. Other languages which are supposed to belong to the Semitic family are the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...the Semitic roots, reduced to their simplest form, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same. Other languages which are supposed to belong to the Semitic family are the... | |
 | Dominick M'Causland - Hamites - 1871 - 360 pages
...words from the Japhetic family of languages. Max Miiller, in his lectures on the science of language, observes that " it is impossible to mistake a Semitic...both started are the same ;" and so they were (though this accomplished linguist failed to detect and appreciate the important truth) before the division... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 716 pages
...the Semitic roots reduced to their simplest form, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same."6 Even Renan is constrained to admit "that the two families possess a considerable... | |
 | George Watson (of Boston.) - Language and languages - 1878 - 360 pages
...the Semitic roots, reduced to their simpler forms, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started, were originally the same.'* And the still later work of Professor TL Papillon, issued only a year since,... | |
 | Bible - 1879 - 820 pages
...the Semitic roots .reduced to their simplest form and the roots of the Aryan languages have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same." 1 In the second place, we have to say that we think the inferences from... | |
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... distinct in these two families of speech. This does not exclude, however, the possibility that both are diverging streams of the same source; and the comparisons that have been instituted between the Semitic roots, reduced to their simplest form,... 