Celtic Studies: from the German of Dr. Hermann Ebel: With an Introduction on Roots, Stems, and Derivatives, and on Case-endings of Nouns in the Indo-European Languages |
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a-stems according accusative plural adjectives affinities affixed ainm analogy anlaut appears aspiration athir auslaut Beitr belong Bopp case-endings Celtic Celtic languages changed consequently consonantal stems consonants copulative Cornish dative derived dialects diphthong doubt dropped dual Ebel eclipse ending examples feminine Gaedh Gaedhelic Gaul Gaulish genders genitive genitive plural Goth Gothic Greek Greek and Latin gunated Indo-European Indo-European languages inflexion inna Kymr Kymric languages likewise Lith Lithuanian locative masc masculine middle forms Middle Irish Modern Irish neut neuter nominative Norse nouns occurs Old High German Old Irish original Oscan peculiar phonetic plur prefix prepositions preserved primitive pronominal pronouns pure stems root Sanskrit sing singular Slav Slavonian stem vowel stem-forming Stokes Subst substantives suffix syllable tenuis Teutonic third declension tion umlaut verb vocalic stems vowel Welsh word-formation words Zend Zeuss
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Page 184 - Ciriacus, built at the end of the tenth, or beginning of the eleventh century...
Page 183 - Jesus Christ. Written in Cornish (as it may be conjectured) some Centuries past. Interpreted in the English tongue, in the Year 1682, by John Keigwin, Gent.
Page 128 - All these agreements in particulars appear insignificant, however, compared to a pervading analogy in the Slavonian, Teutonic, and both branches of the Celtic, which has forced itself from the beginning, on me at least, as one of the strongest proofs of the correlation of these languages. As is well known, the Slavonian dialects mark the distinction between the imperfect and perfect, continuous and momentary action, which the Greek, Latin, and Romance languages express 129 by special tense-forms,...
Page 85 - ... proletariate of weakly accented words'*. The question may be asked whether this use of the term ' halflong' rests upon a strictly scientific basis, and if so, what is the precise meaning of ' half-long ', in other words, what is its metrical meaning. As regards the first question, there can be no doubt that the use of the term
Page 127 - ... (praecipio). Again, striking agreements with the Latin occur in the formation of the tenses and the passive. Notwithstanding these circumstances, a wonderful analogy with the Teutonic and Slavonian is found to exist, which points to a most special connection of these languages, the result either of long continued unity, or of a very special relationship of the mind of the peoples.
Page i - SULLIVAN (WK). CELTIC STUDIES FROM THE GERMAN OF EBEL. With an Introduction on the Roots, Stems, and Derivatives, and on Case-endings of Nouns in the Indo-European Languages. 8vo, cloth, los.
Page ix - In comparative philology, as in all other sciences, no hypothesis, however logically established, can be wholly true; the proportion of error in it will, among other things, depend on the state of development of the science, and on the greater or lesser generality of the hypothesis itself — that is, on the greater or lesser number of phenomena embraced by it.
Page 183 - Llyfr each o Hergest, and other Welsh MSS., with an English translation and notes, by Lady Charlotte Guest". London, 1849. Cornish MSS. 1. The Tellum MS marked Vesp. A. 14, in the Cotton collection in the British Museum. It is the most ancient monument which is known to exist of the Cornish language, and dates most probably from the twelfth century. It has been transcribed by Zeuss himself, and printed entire in the Grammatica Celtica, vol. II. 1100. It is also printed, more correctly, and arranged...
Page iii - Pinkerton has declared in the most positive terms that the Celtae were a people entirely distinct from the rest of mankind. He says that their language, " the real Celtic, is as remote from the Greek as the Hottentot from the Lapponic.
Page v - ... that neither Greek, Latin, or the Teutonic dialects, nor Arabic, Persian, or Sanskrit were derived from the Celtic, since these languages have not any affinity whatever with that tongue...