The Etymologic Interpreter, Or, An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: To which is Prefixed an Introduction Containing a Full Development of the Principles of Etymology and Grammar, &c. &c. &cR. Hunter, 1824 - 274 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 20
... purposes in studying the English language , but not half so available as Ger- man , Swedish , Danish , Dutch , old English , Scot- tish , Greek , and Latin . The reason is obvious : such was the illiterateness of even the Saxon literati ...
... purposes in studying the English language , but not half so available as Ger- man , Swedish , Danish , Dutch , old English , Scot- tish , Greek , and Latin . The reason is obvious : such was the illiterateness of even the Saxon literati ...
Σελίδα 21
... purpose of showing what a great number of pure Saxon words they contain ; but we think it can be proved that most , if not all , of these very Saxon words are as really Greek and Latin , as those which are admitted to be adopted from ...
... purpose of showing what a great number of pure Saxon words they contain ; but we think it can be proved that most , if not all , of these very Saxon words are as really Greek and Latin , as those which are admitted to be adopted from ...
Σελίδα 31
... purpose of producing a nasal facility and smoothness of pronunciation ; thus , PAGO became PANGO ; JUGO , JUNGO , & c .: hence the frequent union of N and G , and N and C , not only in the Latin , but in all the modern languages of ...
... purpose of producing a nasal facility and smoothness of pronunciation ; thus , PAGO became PANGO ; JUGO , JUNGO , & c .: hence the frequent union of N and G , and N and C , not only in the Latin , but in all the modern languages of ...
Σελίδα 34
... purpose of softening harsh or difficult letters ; as , Scoùr , ( to run , ) i . e . CURRO ; Scourge , Scorreggia , ( It . , ) i . e . CORRIGIA ; Slabber , i . e . LABARI ; Slip , i . e . LAPS - US ; Slack , i . e . LAX - US ; Slime , i ...
... purpose of softening harsh or difficult letters ; as , Scoùr , ( to run , ) i . e . CURRO ; Scourge , Scorreggia , ( It . , ) i . e . CORRIGIA ; Slabber , i . e . LABARI ; Slip , i . e . LAPS - US ; Slack , i . e . LAX - US ; Slime , i ...
Σελίδα 41
... purpose , serve also to exemplify nearly all the re- marks concerning the alphabetic interchanges and transmutations . It may be observed , that many names of places whose orthography has been fixed , are much abbreviated in common ...
... purpose , serve also to exemplify nearly all the re- marks concerning the alphabetic interchanges and transmutations . It may be observed , that many names of places whose orthography has been fixed , are much abbreviated in common ...
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absurd adjective affix admit adopted Anglo-Saxon arbitrary grammar composition concerning connexion Connouns considered consonant contr contraction corrupted definition derived designation Dictionary discarded distinctions diversity ellipsis employed English language entities established usage etymologic etymology evidently exist French frequently Gothic Goths gram grammarians grammatic grammatists Greek Greek and Latin guage guttural hence honour Horne Tooke indicate infinitive mood instances Italian learned letters Lindley Murray meaning merely metaphysical mode of expression Mood mouth names nations nature neutrologistic nominative nouns object obvious onomatopeia opinion origin participle perhaps philosophic plural possession preceding prefix preposition present pron pronounced pronouns pronunciation proper propriety purpose reason regular verb remarks render rule Saxon seems sentence signification singular sound speech spelling sufficient suppose syllable tence tense thing third person thou tion tive torule train uniformly useless verbal vowel vulgar whence wholly words write
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Σελίδα 220 - I am. Thou art. He is. We are. You are. They are. I was. Thou wast He was. We were. You were. They were.
Σελίδα 145 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Σελίδα 106 - An Adjective is a word added to a substantive, to express its quality : as, " An industrious man ; a virtuous woman.
Σελίδα 240 - Their march,' says the author, speaking of the Greeks under Alexander, ' their march was through an uncultivated country, whose savage inhabitants fared hardly, having no other riches than a breed of lean sheep, whose flesh was rank and unsavoury, by reason of their continual feeding upon sea-fish.
Σελίδα 243 - It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves against the accidents of life, by heaping up treasures, which nothing can protect us against, but the good providence of our Creator.
Σελίδα 243 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Σελίδα 248 - The only exceptions are, of, if, as, is, has, was, yes, his, this, us, and thus.
Σελίδα 243 - are these designs which any man who is born a Briton, in any circumstances, in any situation...
Σελίδα 240 - The march of the Greeks, the description of the inhabitants through whose country they passed, the account of their sheep and the reason of their sheep being disagreeable food, make a jumble of objects, slightly related to each other, which the reader cannot, without considerable difficulty, comprehend under one view.
Σελίδα 115 - The persons speaking and spoken to, being at the same time the subjects of the discourse, are supposed to be present ; from which, and other circumstances, their sex is commonly known, and needs not be marked by a distinction of gender...