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... Latin . Yet all the inflexions that remain in it , and most of its formative endings , the pronouns and particles , and , in general , the words which are in most frequent and familiar use , have come to it from the Anglo- Saxon . With ...
... Latin . Yet all the inflexions that remain in it , and most of its formative endings , the pronouns and particles , and , in general , the words which are in most frequent and familiar use , have come to it from the Anglo- Saxon . With ...
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... Latin , or Classical branch . Closely akin to Latin were the other Italican lan- guages the Oscan , Umbrian , etc. - in Central Italy . The modern descendants of the Latin are called the Romance languages . They are the Italian , the ...
... Latin , or Classical branch . Closely akin to Latin were the other Italican lan- guages the Oscan , Umbrian , etc. - in Central Italy . The modern descendants of the Latin are called the Romance languages . They are the Italian , the ...
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... Latin . frater fores Gothic . Eng . O.H.Ger . N. H. Ger . Xýv ( for xnv - s ) anser ( for hanser ) δύο γένος duo genus ToÚs ( for Tod - s ) pes ( for ped - s ) τρεῖς καρδία κάνναβις στῆναι tres cor ( d ) cannabis sta - re brôthar ...
... Latin . frater fores Gothic . Eng . O.H.Ger . N. H. Ger . Xýv ( for xnv - s ) anser ( for hanser ) δύο γένος duo genus ToÚs ( for Tod - s ) pes ( for ped - s ) τρεῖς καρδία κάνναβις στῆναι tres cor ( d ) cannabis sta - re brôthar ...
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... Latin tu - tud - i ) is pre- served by the Gothic in a few verbs , as hai - hald , held ; in the other idioms we find little more than traces of its former existence . § 22. Persons and Numbers . There is a good reason to believe that ...
... Latin tu - tud - i ) is pre- served by the Gothic in a few verbs , as hai - hald , held ; in the other idioms we find little more than traces of its former existence . § 22. Persons and Numbers . There is a good reason to believe that ...
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... Latin by King Alfred in the ninth century ( including the History of Orosius , the Ecclesiastical History of Bede , and Boethius on the Consolations of Philosophy ) ; the Homilies of Alfric , who was Archbishop of Canter- bury in the ...
... Latin by King Alfred in the ninth century ( including the History of Orosius , the Ecclesiastical History of Bede , and Boethius on the Consolations of Philosophy ) ; the Homilies of Alfric , who was Archbishop of Canter- bury in the ...
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