Prepositions compounded with Prepositions Prepositions formed from Nouns Noun Suffixes from Demonstrative Roots. Adjective Suffixes from Demonstrative Roots Noun Suffixes from Predicative Roots. ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN HISTORICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR. CHAPTER I. I. Relation of English to the Languages of Europe and Asia. ENGLISH BELONGS TO THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES. 1. Most of the nations of Europe, and some in Asia, (India, Persia, Afghanistan,) have sprung from one common stock, and are therefore related to one another, by blood and by language. 2. These nations philologists have called the IndoEuropean or Aryan family. The ancestors of the Aryan race once lived together in the highlands north of the Himâlaya mountains. A time came, of which history gives us no account, when the old Aryan tribes separated from each other, and left their ancient abode to seek new settlements. |