Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, & June 1861, Volume 1 |
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... langue Basque , p . 28 . 3 Horne Tooke , p . 27 , note . Pott , Studien zur griechischen My- thologie , 1859 , p . 304. Grimm , Deutsche Grammatik , iii . p . 349 . In Gothic mena , the moon , is masculine ; 6 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
... langue Basque , p . 28 . 3 Horne Tooke , p . 27 , note . Pott , Studien zur griechischen My- thologie , 1859 , p . 304. Grimm , Deutsche Grammatik , iii . p . 349 . In Gothic mena , the moon , is masculine ; 6 EMPIRICAL STAGE .
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... Gothic mena , the moon , is masculine ; sunnô , the sun , feminine . In Anglo - Saxon , too , môna , the moon , continues to be used as a masculine ; sunne , the sun , as a feminine . In Swedish måne , the moon , is masculine ; sol ...
... Gothic mena , the moon , is masculine ; sunnô , the sun , feminine . In Anglo - Saxon , too , môna , the moon , continues to be used as a masculine ; sunne , the sun , as a feminine . In Swedish måne , the moon , is masculine ; sol ...
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... Gothic , or in Greek and Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in Sanskrit . We find in Sanskrit Greek vinsati eikati Latin English viginti twenty . Now here we see ...
... Gothic , or in Greek and Latin , or in Sanskrit ? We do not say two - ten in English , nor duo - decem in Latin , nor dvi - dasa in Sanskrit . We find in Sanskrit Greek vinsati eikati Latin English viginti twenty . Now here we see ...
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... Gothic . But what were these very languages before they had been fixed by literary cultivation ? Are 31 Some people , who may have been taught to consider the Dorset dialect as having originated from corruption of the written English ...
... Gothic . But what were these very languages before they had been fixed by literary cultivation ? Are 31 Some people , who may have been taught to consider the Dorset dialect as having originated from corruption of the written English ...
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... Gothic sindon sijum 18 you are aron ër - udh sindon sijuth they are 49 aron ër - u sindon sind . 46 Similar formations , occurring in the dialects of France , have been collected by le Comte de Jaubert , in his Glossaire du Centre de la ...
... Gothic sindon sijum 18 you are aron ër - udh sindon sijuth they are 49 aron ër - u sindon sind . 46 Similar formations , occurring in the dialects of France , have been collected by le Comte de Jaubert , in his Glossaire du Centre de la ...
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