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... natural desire to reduce the word to such a form as may express the idea with the least possible amount of labour consis- tent with clearness . This limitation is important . If a word be reduced too far , its identity is destroyed ...
... natural desire to reduce the word to such a form as may express the idea with the least possible amount of labour consis- tent with clearness . This limitation is important . If a word be reduced too far , its identity is destroyed ...
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... naturally expect those letters to be more sparingly used which required the largest amount of labour in produc- tion ; they would either be not employed at all , or would pass into easier sounds , or be altogether dropped , in words in ...
... naturally expect those letters to be more sparingly used which required the largest amount of labour in produc- tion ; they would either be not employed at all , or would pass into easier sounds , or be altogether dropped , in words in ...
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... natural one : it arose from the fact that our records of Sanskrit speech stretch back to a much earlier time than those of any of the sister languages , and still more from the peculiar character of the language . Compared with Greek ...
... natural one : it arose from the fact that our records of Sanskrit speech stretch back to a much earlier time than those of any of the sister languages , and still more from the peculiar character of the language . Compared with Greek ...
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... naturally arises , what were all these suffixes- verbal and nominal - in the beginning ? Probably the verbal were in the main common roots . Clearly no certain answer can be given : but the num- ber of suffixes is sufficiently great ...
... naturally arises , what were all these suffixes- verbal and nominal - in the beginning ? Probably the verbal were in the main common roots . Clearly no certain answer can be given : but the num- ber of suffixes is sufficiently great ...
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... natural contraction of the pharynx alone , when the check in the mouth is removed and the air escapes , that causes the audibility of each of these letters . But if the soft palate be low enough to allow air to pass to the nostrils , as ...
... natural contraction of the pharynx alone , when the check in the mouth is removed and the air escapes , that causes the audibility of each of these letters . But if the soft palate be low enough to allow air to pass to the nostrils , as ...
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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