Teutonic Etymology: The Formation of Teutonic Words in the English LanguagePeck, White & Peck, 1860 - 139 pages |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
ablaut Abstract Substantives accent drawn back adverbial genitive Adverbs in ly ancient Anglo Anglo-Sax Anglo-Saxon Appendix bootikin change of vowel Comp Compare composition compound words Derivative Adjectives Derivative Adverbs Derivative Concrete Substantives Derivative Substantives diminutives from concrete Dutch English language Example final consonant formation of words forms diminutives genitive genus glo-Sax Goth Greek Grimm's law Hence idea Indo-European languages inhold internal inflection interrogative ling ly from Adjectives meaning Meso Meso-Goth metonymy mixed conj myddes ness from Adjectives Note obsolete Old Eng Old Germ Old High Germ partic pass past tense person Philol prefix preposition pres pronominal element pure pronoun reduplication Sansk Schm Schmitthenner's Conjugation series consists signification sometimes denotes species stem-noun ster strong conj strong inflection Substantives in ness suffix supra Swed termination Teutonic dialects Teutonic origin Teutonic portion TEUTONIC WORDS uncertain strong conj verbal roots vowel whence Eng WORDS IN ENGLISH
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Page 59 - I cannot choose: sometimes he angers me, With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin, and his prophecies ; And of a dragon and a...
Page 39 - Lat. tuovitaurus (whence suovitaurilia), 'a swine, sheep, and bull.' 8. Composition is an original process in language, distinct on the one hand from derivation, that is, the formation of words by internal change of vowel and by suffixes, and on the other from the mere syntactical combination of ideas. 9. Composition differs essentially from the formation of words by internal change of vowel and by suffixes, in this, that derivation gives us different forms of ideas ; as, drink (noun), drinker, drinking...
Page 49 - Those who hold to an original language naturally wish to show how and in what order the * different families of languages have separated themselves from the main stock. Chevalier Bunsen and Max Miiller have been laboring on this subject with great assiduity, and think to have arrived at important results. The interesting problem before them is this, to place the various families of languages in the line of successive development. The earliest type of language is supposed to have been monosyllabic....
Page 60 - ... with sea, as if the compound meant the sawing of the sea. II. The change of vowel evidently depends on a regular euphonic law. The short vowel in the first part is a preparation for the fuller sound in the second. This renders the whole word melodious and expressive. It is improper to call this change of vowel a corruption, or to seek in it for any peculiar significancy. Yet Dr. Johnson calls chit-chat a corruption of chat-chat ; J.
Page 49 - Those who hold to the unity of the human race hold of course to an original language. Those who hold to an original language naturally wish to show how and in what order the different families of languages have separated themselves from the main stock. " Chevalier Bunsen and Max Muller have been laboring on this subject with great assiduity, and think to have arrived at important results.
Page 50 - Many substantial reasons might be given in favour of this supposition. The Chinese and other monosyllabic languages of Asia went off from the main stock, while it was yet in a rude or inorganic state. These languages have been called family languages. Some cause, to us unknown, seems to have stereotyped these' languages in this early stage of their existence, and to have prevented their further development. At a subsequent period, when the main stock had assumed somewhat of an organic character,...
Page 57 - I AM a member of a female society, who call ourselves the Chit-chat Club, and am ordered by the whole sisterhood, to congratulate you upon the use of your tongue. We have all of us a mighty mind to hear you talk, and if you will take your place among us for an evening, we have unanimously agreed to allow you one minute in ten, without interruption.
Page 112 - II. includes verbs which have, or rather originally had, i or its modification e before two consonants in the present tense, a in the past tense, and u or its modification o in the past participle ; as, Goth.
Page 60 - These words illustrate an important formative principle in language. They are not formed by internal inflection, that is, by a change of vowel within the root itself; as band or bond from bind; nor by derivation, as bondage from bond ; nor by composition of two words, as bondman from bond and man ; but by a peculiar process. This principle in the formation of language has its natural place after internal inflection, and before derivation.
Page 50 - ... of their existence, and to have prevented their further development. At a subsequent period, when the main stock had assumed somewhat of an organic character, the Tartar or Turanian languages detached themselves on one side, and Hamitism, or the language of Egypt, on the other ; the former with a slight tincture of Iranianism, or tendency to the Indo-European character, and the latter with a tincture of Shemitism. These languages are called nomad languages, as having advanced farther than the...