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... Class . ( 1 ) Welsh ; ( 2 ) Cornish ( died out about the middle of sixteenth century ) ; ( 3 ) Bas - Breton . ( b ) Gadhelic Class .- ( 1 ) Erse or Irish ; ( 2 ) Gaelic , spoken in the Highlands of Scotland ; ( 3 ) Manx ( the dialect ...
... Class . ( 1 ) Welsh ; ( 2 ) Cornish ( died out about the middle of sixteenth century ) ; ( 3 ) Bas - Breton . ( b ) Gadhelic Class .- ( 1 ) Erse or Irish ; ( 2 ) Gaelic , spoken in the Highlands of Scotland ; ( 3 ) Manx ( the dialect ...
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... class of changes . ( 1 ) Softening of gutturals at end of words , as silly from sdlig , godly from godlic godlike , barley from bær - li = All letter - change must be based upon physiological grounds . 2 The seat of euphony is in the ...
... class of changes . ( 1 ) Softening of gutturals at end of words , as silly from sdlig , godly from godlic godlike , barley from bær - li = All letter - change must be based upon physiological grounds . 2 The seat of euphony is in the ...
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... class , are called trills , and are pro- duced by a vibration of certain portions of the mouth ( tongue or uvula ) . ( c ) The consonants may be classified according to the organs by which they are produced , as gutturals ( k , g , ch ) ...
... class , are called trills , and are pro- duced by a vibration of certain portions of the mouth ( tongue or uvula ) . ( c ) The consonants may be classified according to the organs by which they are produced , as gutturals ( k , g , ch ) ...
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... classes of objects ; nor are they limited in their application . Only one thing may be called the sun ; only certain objects are white ; but there is nothing which may not be 71 and you and it , alternately , as the point from which it ...
... classes of objects ; nor are they limited in their application . Only one thing may be called the sun ; only certain objects are white ; but there is nothing which may not be 71 and you and it , alternately , as the point from which it ...
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... class of words ending in -ster ( stre , stere ) , corresponding to masculine forms in -ere . M. bæc - ere ( baker ) fithel - ere ( fiddler ) hearp - ere ( harper ) sang - ere ( singer ) seam - ere ( sewer ) tæpp - er ( bar - man ) webb ...
... class of words ending in -ster ( stre , stere ) , corresponding to masculine forms in -ere . M. bæc - ere ( baker ) fithel - ere ( fiddler ) hearp - ere ( harper ) sang - ere ( singer ) seam - ere ( sewer ) tæpp - er ( bar - man ) webb ...
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth cognate College compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension demonstrative ELEMENTARY ending Extra fcap fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek HISTORY indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine Midland modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger occurs Old English older oldest English originally Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural preposition PRES Professor Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Schools Second Edition SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou TREATISE twelfth vowel weak verbs West Midland writers þæt þat
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