The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... German dialect . Still , there are some words which we can identify as Scandinavian in their origin . We may trace the Danes on the map of England by the ending -by , which means ' town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is ...
... German dialect . Still , there are some words which we can identify as Scandinavian in their origin . We may trace the Danes on the map of England by the ending -by , which means ' town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is ...
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... German - waltz , meerschaum , nickel . Dutch - skipper , yacht , sloop . Russian - czar , knout , drosky . Hebrew - cherub , seraph , shibboleth . Arabic - alkali , sheik , sherbet . Persian - chess , lilac , orange . Malay - amuck ...
... German - waltz , meerschaum , nickel . Dutch - skipper , yacht , sloop . Russian - czar , knout , drosky . Hebrew - cherub , seraph , shibboleth . Arabic - alkali , sheik , sherbet . Persian - chess , lilac , orange . Malay - amuck ...
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... German , we come across some words that are the same in form as their English equivalents and many more words that are very like them . Take the English words one , three , me , is . Everybody can see the resemblance of these words to ...
... German , we come across some words that are the same in form as their English equivalents and many more words that are very like them . Take the English words one , three , me , is . Everybody can see the resemblance of these words to ...
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... German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language , 1st series , pp . 238-9 , and Sayce's Introduction to the Science of Language , II . pp . 121–134 ...
... German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language , 1st series , pp . 238-9 , and Sayce's Introduction to the Science of Language , II . pp . 121–134 ...
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... German is a High- German language . Then again the languages of Iceland , Norway , Sweden , and Denmark , form a third group , which we call Scandinavian . The Teutonic stock is thus sub- divided into three branches , viz . Low - German ...
... German is a High- German language . Then again the languages of Iceland , Norway , Sweden , and Denmark , form a third group , which we call Scandinavian . The Teutonic stock is thus sub- divided into three branches , viz . Low - German ...
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