Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus: being a British, or Welsh-English dictionary. [2 issues].

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Page 3 - Of what parts does the palate consist? ate, and a posterior, /, containing no bone, and called the soft palate. The two can readily be distinguished by applying the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth and drawing it backwards. The hard palate forms the partition between the mouth and nose.
Page 4 - Wales ; as ci mham, her mother ; ei nhai, her nephew. This variation of the initial letters is always regular, and constantly betwixt letters of the same organ of pronunciation ; for a labial letter is never changed to a dental, nor a dental, to a labial, &c. • Adverbs, being formed of adjectives, become...
Page 20 - Thing ? arid sometimes, what Person ? • .' • They are of all Genders and Numbers. They are not always Interrogatives; but are sometimes Indefinites, -especially when -attended with Bynnag ; as, Pwy bynnag a wnel hyn, whosoever doeth this.
Page 61 - Nothing is tetter than for a man to eat, drink, and be merry, and enjoy his labour. It is both advantageous and honourable for a man to free his mind from anxious care, and take a moderate use of what God brings to his hand, Eccl. ii. 24. and iii. 12, 13. and viii. 15. BEULAH, a name given to the Jewish nation and church of God in the latter days, importing their marriage to Christ, as their husband and sovereign Lord, Isa. Ixii.
Page 84 - Counsel, or Counsellor, a person retained by a client to plead his cause in a court of judicature ; a barrister ; an advocate.
Page 117 - Corail, which in the sea groweth like a shrub, or brush, and taken out waxeth hard as a stone ; while it is in the water, it is of colour greenish and covered with mosee, &c.
Page 4 - ... and according to the effect which the words preceding have on them, as follows : — Words primarily beginning with b have three...
Page vii - ... its speakers have not been conquered, cannot have changed. Thus it is possible for Pezron to speak of the Bretons as inheritors of the Gaulish language: I shall conclude with one Thing, that Men ought not to be ignorant of, and that is, That the Language of the Titans, which was that of the Ancient Gauls, is, after a Revolution of above Four Thousand Years, preserved even to our Time: A strange Thing, that so ancient a Language should now be spoken by the Armorican Britons in France, and by the...
Page 52 - All the other possessive pronouns (except eiddo) are placed before their expressed substantives : the radical initial letter of their substantives being changed after fy into their...
Page 4 - OF INITIAL LETTERS IN WELSH. Such words as begin with mutable consonants, viz. b. c, d, g, 11, m,p, r, and t, in their primary use, change these their radical initial letters, as occasion shall require, and according to the efjedl, VvViiili the Words' preceding have on them, as follows.

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