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... principles and to suggest 1 Reference is made in this edition to the third edition of Curtius's Griechische Etymologie , and to the second edition of Corssen's Aussprache , & c . , except in one or two places , where the contrary is ...
... principles and to suggest 1 Reference is made in this edition to the third edition of Curtius's Griechische Etymologie , and to the second edition of Corssen's Aussprache , & c . , except in one or two places , where the contrary is ...
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... principle arises mainly , I venture to think , from a mis- apprehension of it , for which I am responsible1 . The idea that man was actuated in speaking only by laziness 1 See especially note to page 8 . P. E. b had certainly not ...
... principle arises mainly , I venture to think , from a mis- apprehension of it , for which I am responsible1 . The idea that man was actuated in speaking only by laziness 1 See especially note to page 8 . P. E. b had certainly not ...
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... cations in Chapter IV . The English sounds are denoted by the symbols ( not italicised ) in brackets : thus ( ee ) denotes the English equivalent of the vowel i , CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE PRINCIPLE OF PHONETIC CHANGE .
... cations in Chapter IV . The English sounds are denoted by the symbols ( not italicised ) in brackets : thus ( ee ) denotes the English equivalent of the vowel i , CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE PRINCIPLE OF PHONETIC CHANGE .
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... principle , 10. Apparent exceptions to it , 12 . Results of the combina- Different theories upon this subject , 13 . tions of phonetic laws of different peoples , 15. Erroneous spelling to suit supposed etymologies , 16 . Note on the ...
... principle , 10. Apparent exceptions to it , 12 . Results of the combina- Different theories upon this subject , 13 . tions of phonetic laws of different peoples , 15. Erroneous spelling to suit supposed etymologies , 16 . Note on the ...
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... Principle of ( i ) Affinities produced by the avoidance of a difficult combination , ib . ( ii ) Affinities produced by ease of combination , 274 . 1. Vowel Assimilation caused by consonants , 276 . ( i ) The vowel u , ib . ( ii ) The ...
... Principle of ( i ) Affinities produced by the avoidance of a difficult combination , ib . ( ii ) Affinities produced by ease of combination , 274 . 1. Vowel Assimilation caused by consonants , 276 . ( i ) The vowel u , ib . ( ii ) The ...
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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.