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... tion , 162 . REDUPLICATION , 164-179 . Reduplication the oldest and simplest method , 164. Evidence of this derived from the language of savages and of children , ib . Redu- plication , first in imitative words , then generally , 166 ...
... tion , 162 . REDUPLICATION , 164-179 . Reduplication the oldest and simplest method , 164. Evidence of this derived from the language of savages and of children , ib . Redu- plication , first in imitative words , then generally , 166 ...
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... tion of that law . Sometimes indeed , but very rarely , the necessity for the distinct expression of what was in danger of becoming confused leads to actual change in a direction contrary to the common one ; as for example in the change ...
... tion of that law . Sometimes indeed , but very rarely , the necessity for the distinct expression of what was in danger of becoming confused leads to actual change in a direction contrary to the common one ; as for example in the change ...
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... case . Thus our calf " is A.-S. " cealf , " " cold " is " ceald . " Mr Skeat thinks that the softening to ch may be due to Norman influence . CH . I. CH . I. Applica- tion of this prin- ciple . The Principle of Phonetic Change . 9.
... case . Thus our calf " is A.-S. " cealf , " " cold " is " ceald . " Mr Skeat thinks that the softening to ch may be due to Norman influence . CH . I. CH . I. Applica- tion of this prin- ciple . The Principle of Phonetic Change . 9.
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... tion ; they would either be not employed at all , or would pass into easier sounds , or be altogether dropped , in words in much use , like pronouns , or in suffixes where neatness 1 See the tables in A. J. Ellis ' Early English ...
... tion ; they would either be not employed at all , or would pass into easier sounds , or be altogether dropped , in words in much use , like pronouns , or in suffixes where neatness 1 See the tables in A. J. Ellis ' Early English ...
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... section on " Aspira- tion " in the last chapter of this book , and Roscher , de Aspiratione apud Romanos in Curtius , Studien , II . 2. 143 , & c . • CHAPTER II . RELATIONSHIP OF THE INDO - EUROPEAN 20 The Principle of Phonetic Change .
... section on " Aspira- tion " in the last chapter of this book , and Roscher , de Aspiratione apud Romanos in Curtius , Studien , II . 2. 143 , & c . • CHAPTER II . RELATIONSHIP OF THE INDO - EUROPEAN 20 The Principle of Phonetic Change .
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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 least letter Lithuanian loss lost Max Müller meaning mentioned modified momentary sounds nasal natural nouns numerous occurs older form onomatopoetic original Oscan palate passed penultima perhaps phonetic change Plautus possible principle probably produced Prof pronounced pronunciation radical vowel reduplication regularly retained root Sanskrit Schleicher Sclavonic secondary seems seen sense shew shewn simple root soft sometimes speech spirant spiritus asper suffix syllable symbol tendency Theok tion tongue trace variation verbs vowel-change weak weakened whence words
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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 39 - ... 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 133 - Some general inferences about the climate of our fatherland will be found in a note at the end of this chapter.
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.
Page 425 - THEOPHRASTUS— THE CHARACTERS OF THEOPHRASTUS. An English Translation from a Revised Text. With Introduction and Notes. By RC JEBB, MA, Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d.
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 425 - MAYOR (JOSEPH B.)— GREEK FOR BEGINNERS. By the Rev. JB MAYOR, MA, Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London. Part I., with Vocabulary, is.
Page 65 - H is to the vowels exactly what P is to B, F to V, s to Z, &c. — a breath-variety of the same formations." Prof. Whitney will not allow that H when followed by a vowel has any independent existence: there is one position of the mouth, and but one, for what we commonly regard as two sounds in ha, he, ho, &c. He says", "H is an anomalous member of the alphabet.
Page 347 - k is the hardest of all consonants to pronounce, and requires the most distinct articulation to keep the sound pure from subsidiary breaths. If we pronounce it lazily without fully opening the mouth, the result is that together with it a slight w-sound is quite unconsciously pronounced, because the position of the tongue is almost exactly the same for k and g as for w, and if the lips be nearly shut an imperfect labial is necessarily produced : the k or g sound is followed by a labial after-sound,...
Page 70 - king.' 4. The palatal letters ^ ch and *lj have the sound of ch in 'church* and ofj in 'join.' 5. The lingual letters are said to be pronounced by bringing the lower surface of the tongue against the roof of the palate. As a matter of fact the ordinary pronunciation of t, d, n in English is what Hindus would call lingual, and it is essential to distinguish the Sanskrit dentals by bringing the tip of the tongue against the very edge of the upper front-teeth. In transcribing English words the natives...