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... commonly dropped in the middle of a word , 338. Changes of GH , 339. The aspirates when initial pass into breaths , when medial into soft letters , 340. Explanation of the appearance of the soft letters , ib . II . Loss , 342—356 . 1 ...
... commonly dropped in the middle of a word , 338. Changes of GH , 339. The aspirates when initial pass into breaths , when medial into soft letters , 340. Explanation of the appearance of the soft letters , ib . II . Loss , 342—356 . 1 ...
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... commonly called " compensation . " In such words there has been a loss of consonants , and a syllable is felt to be too much weakened , therefore the vowel is strengthened to make up for the loss . Sometimes a vowel in one syllable ...
... commonly called " compensation . " In such words there has been a loss of consonants , and a syllable is felt to be too much weakened , therefore the vowel is strengthened to make up for the loss . Sometimes a vowel in one syllable ...
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... commonly inherited by his descendants . The more intellectual causes referred to by Prof. Mayor , act , I think , principally on mixed languages : they will be noticed at the end of this chapter . Under the second class - physical ...
... commonly inherited by his descendants . The more intellectual causes referred to by Prof. Mayor , act , I think , principally on mixed languages : they will be noticed at the end of this chapter . Under the second class - physical ...
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... commonly supposed that guêpe is from vespa1 , in which case the g must be due to the Frankish pronunciation of a Latin word , for there is no tendency in Latin to a parasitic g before a w . But it is certainly remarkable ( as Max Müller ...
... commonly supposed that guêpe is from vespa1 , in which case the g must be due to the Frankish pronunciation of a Latin word , for there is no tendency in Latin to a parasitic g before a w . But it is certainly remarkable ( as Max Müller ...
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... commonly used by that writer ( though , at least , as we have the text , with many forms of the severe Doric intermixed ) , as by Epicharmus and Sophron before him , and by the Sicilians in general , and the Dorians of Messene , Argolis ...
... commonly used by that writer ( though , at least , as we have the text , with many forms of the severe Doric intermixed ) , as by Epicharmus and Sophron before him , and by the Sicilians in general , and the Dorians of Messene , Argolis ...
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accent Aeolic already analogy appears assimilation Attic Boeotian breath certainly common commonly Comp compound connection consonant consonantal Corssen Curtius denote dental derived dialects diphthong distinct Doric doubt English Ennius examples explained express German given Goth Gothic Graeco-Italian Grammar Greek and Latin Grimm's law guage guttural hard aspirates idea Indo-Eur Indo-European Indo-European language inscriptions Ionic Italian Keltic labial language Lesbian letter Lith Lithuanian loss lost Max Müller meaning mentioned modified momentary sounds nasal nouns numerous occurs older form onomatopoetic original Oscan palate passed perhaps phonetic change Plautus possible principle probably produced Prof pronounced pronunciation radical reduplication regularly retained root Sanskrit Schleicher Sclavonic secondary seems seen sense shew shewn simple root soft sometimes speech spirants spiritus asper substitution suffix syllable symbol tendency Theok tion tongue trace variation verbs vowel vowel-change weakened whence words
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Page 360 - Atque haec ipsa S littera ab his nominibus exclusa in quibusdam ipsa alteri successit, nam mertare atque pultare...
Page 39 - Languai)e, c. 18, p. 202. lopment of other roots (eg gan, gnu) that a more original form was sat: in which case the explanation does not seem so probable. It is essentially a guess and incapable of verification. On this question of the connection between idea and form, I adopt unhesitatingly Kenan's view1, "La liaison du sens et du mot n'est jamais ne'cessaire, jamais arbitraire, toujours elle est motive'e.
Page 110 - I venture to suggest that Teutonic and Italic Aryans witnessed the transition of the oak period into the beech period, of the bronze age into the iron age, and that while the Greeks retained phegos in its original sense, the Teutonic and Italian colonists transferred the name, as an appellative, to the new forests that were springing up in their wild homes.
Page iii - PEILE (JOHN, MA)— AN INTRODUCTION TO GREEK AND LATIN ETYMOLOGY. By JOHN PEILE, MA, Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, formerly Teacher of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge. Third and Revised Edition. Crown 8vo.
Page 5 - all articulate sounds," he says, "are produced by effort, by expenditure of muscular energy in the throat, lungs, and mouth. This effort, like every other that man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid: we may call it laziness, or we may call it economy: it is in fact either the one or the other according to the circumstances of each particular case : it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains: it is economy when it gains more than it abandons.
Page 5 - All articulate sounds are produced by effort, by expenditure of muscular energy, in the lungs, throat, and mouth. This effort, like every other which man makes, he has an instinctive disposition to seek relief from, to avoid : we may call it laziness, or we may call it economy ; it is, in fact, either the one or the other, according to the circumstances of each separate case : it is laziness when it gives up more than it gains ; economy, when it gains more than it abandons.
Page 65 - ... contrary, can be sounded, because, in pronouncing it more or less distinctly, the breath is checked near the chordae vocales, and can there be intoned. This simplest breathing, in its double character of asper and lenis, can be modified in eight different ways by interposing certain barriers or gates formed by the tongue, the soft and hard palate, the teeth, and the lips. Before we examine these, it will...
Page 310 - We now come lastly to the absolute loss of the vowel, cither when it stands actually last, or when it is followed only by a weakly-sounded consonant, that is, practically, by none at all — the result, like the loss of quantity already considered, of the tendency in Latin to throw back the accent as far as possible from the end of the word, subject to the rule of the length of the penultima. First under this head comes the loss of original o, or later u, in the nominatives, such as ager(os...
Page 13 - I feel strongly inclined to ascribe the phonetic diversity which we observe between Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, to a previous state of language, in which, as in the Polynesian dialects, the two or three principal points of consonantal contact were not yet felt as definitely separated from each other.