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Page iii - There is hardly a language which in one sense may not be called a mixed language. No nation or tribe was ever so completely isolated as not to admit the importation 'of a certain number of foreign words. In some instances these imported words have changed the whole native aspect of the language, and have even acquired a majority over the native element.
Page iv - In the fourteen thousand words here collected, will be found many in daily use by the people, that no Bengali scholar will understand. Many of tliese words have been 'written as they dropped from the lips of the people.
Page iii - ASSAMESE a the language usually spoken by the entire population of the Brahmaputra Valley, and in most cases it is the only medium of intercourse with the bordering Hill Tribes. There is nothing to show that the Assamese race and their . language have not existed in this Valley from time immemorial; and it is surprising that, during the change of rulers, the oppression and misrule to which they have been subjected, there are so few traces of any material change in their language.
Page 63 - The statues represent male figures draped with a shawl-like cloth worn on the left shoulder and under the right arm so as to leave the right arm free which recalls the upaveta mode peculiar to India discovered during the later vedic age.
Page v - I am aware that this first edition, like all other first attempts of the kind, must be left more or less imperfect. No word however has been allowed to pass without, careful examination; and when doubts have existed, the oldest and best informed of the people have been consulted.
Page iii - Assamese is the language usually spoken by the entire population of the Brahmaputra Valley, and in most cases it is the only medium of intercourse with the bordering Hill Tribes. There is nothing to show that the Assamese race and their language have not existed in this Valley from time immemorial; and it is surprising that, during the change of rulers, the oppression and misrule to which they have been subjected, there are so few traces of any material change in their language. The Ahoms, a branch...
Page 321 - A'ZIMUTH, a corrupted Arabic word, which when properly written is ca-\amt, the as being the article al, assimilated to the initial letter of the word to which it is prefixed samt means ' a way, a road, a path ;' also ' a part, tract country or quarter...
Page iv - ... words here collected, will be found many in daily use by the people, that no Bengali scholar will understand. Many of these words have been written as they dropped from the lips of the people. While I have thus endeavoured to give the spoken language, I have also inserted the more common Sanskrit words that are used in the Puthis, and therefore known to the people. These words are also used in our school books, and scripture translations.
Page 234 - Spawn, the spawn is crumbled into small particles and as much as can be taken up between the thumb and two fingers used instead of a nut-sized piece of manure spawn.
Page iii - there is hardly a language that in some sense may not be called a mixed language. No nation or Tribe was ever so completely isolated as not to admit a certain number of foreign words.