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... Plautus ss appears as the best re- presentative of the strong Greek ( which differed from the old weak Italian 2 ) in badisso , tarpessita , & c . In the Augustan age , on the contrary , Greek characters are borrowed as well as the ...
... Plautus ss appears as the best re- presentative of the strong Greek ( which differed from the old weak Italian 2 ) in badisso , tarpessita , & c . In the Augustan age , on the contrary , Greek characters are borrowed as well as the ...
Page 104
... Plautus ' favourite combination , segrego sperno , but more clearly in aspernor ) and spurius , and our " spurn , " must be put with German spur a track and sporn a " spur , " and spurnan O. H. G. to kick , perhaps also opupóv : and ...
... Plautus ' favourite combination , segrego sperno , but more clearly in aspernor ) and spurius , and our " spurn , " must be put with German spur a track and sporn a " spur , " and spurnan O. H. G. to kick , perhaps also opupóv : and ...
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... Plautus . They conceived that their idea was more fully expressed by repetition of the same syllable or syllables , even though the sense was not clearly and directly intensified , as in the case of reduplication . How curiously they ...
... Plautus . They conceived that their idea was more fully expressed by repetition of the same syllable or syllables , even though the sense was not clearly and directly intensified , as in the case of reduplication . How curiously they ...
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... Plautus it is exceedingly fre- quent and generally without much reason ; no end seems to be served by it : it has become apparently a mere trick of composition . Lucretius also has much of it , and it har- monizes well with his simple ...
... Plautus it is exceedingly fre- quent and generally without much reason ; no end seems to be served by it : it has become apparently a mere trick of composition . Lucretius also has much of it , and it har- monizes well with his simple ...
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... Plautus the locative forms herei ( Mil . Glor . 59 ) and die septimei ( Pers . 260 ) : but die crastini ( after the MSS . ) in Most . 881 . It seems probable then that ei was a middle sound be- tween e and i : that in the oldest times ...
... Plautus the locative forms herei ( Mil . Glor . 59 ) and die septimei ( Pers . 260 ) : but die crastini ( after the MSS . ) in Most . 881 . It seems probable then that ei was a middle sound be- tween e and i : that in the oldest times ...
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accent Aeolic already analogy appears assimilation Attic Boeotian breath certainly close vowel common commonly Comp compound connection consonant consonantal Corssen Curtius denote dental derived dialects diphthong distinct Doric doubt English Ennius examples explained express German given 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 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 Teutonic Theok tion tongue trace variation verbs vowel-change weak weakened whence words
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Page 3 - 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
Page 108 - the 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
Page viii - Strebens unseren Sprachorganen die Sache leicht zu machen; Bequemlichkeit der Aussprache, Ersparung an Muskelthätigkeit, ist das hier wirkende Agens.' Curtius findet in der Regelmässigen Vertretung der Laute wie in den vereinzelten Abweichungen derselben 'eine einzige Grundrichtung, die der Verwitterung, welche, schärfer gefasst, in der schlafferen Articulation gewisser Laute bestand
Page 11 - 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.
Page 13 - the regular series of transitions, which such a combination of the guttural and labial would present, may easily be described: the guttural may be represented by k, q, g,j, s, h, the labial by p, b, v; and these sets of letters may be permuted with
Page 108 - 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