| Vilhelm Thomsen - Comparative linguistics - 1927 - 114 pages
...more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearning to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have Sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists:... | |
| Otto Jespersen - Language and languages - 1928 - 472 pages
...more copious than the Lai in and more exquisitely refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...produced by accident ; so strong, indeed, that no phUologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source,... | |
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