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... become fully developed before the separation of the Indo - European family ; and it is found , essentially unchanged , not only in the Gothic and the Anglo - Saxon , but even in the modern German . In the English , on the contrary , it ...
... become fully developed before the separation of the Indo - European family ; and it is found , essentially unchanged , not only in the Gothic and the Anglo - Saxon , but even in the modern German . In the English , on the contrary , it ...
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... which means to be ( Goth . visan , A - S . wesan , or beón , etc. ) , and sometimes with the verb which means to become ( Goth . vairthan , A - S . weordhan , Old Eng . worth in woe worth the C 2 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 19.
... which means to be ( Goth . visan , A - S . wesan , or beón , etc. ) , and sometimes with the verb which means to become ( Goth . vairthan , A - S . weordhan , Old Eng . worth in woe worth the C 2 THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 19.
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... become obsolete . A much larger number have been added to the lan- guage , including not only technical and scientific terms by the thousand , but a multitude of words which belong to the common stock of literature and society . Words ...
... become obsolete . A much larger number have been added to the lan- guage , including not only technical and scientific terms by the thousand , but a multitude of words which belong to the common stock of literature and society . Words ...
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... become fixed until a century later . Unfortunately , these changes are far far from having made the orthography of the language simple and consistent . The defects of English spelling have to a great for its regularity . extent arisen ...
... become fixed until a century later . Unfortunately , these changes are far far from having made the orthography of the language simple and consistent . The defects of English spelling have to a great for its regularity . extent arisen ...
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... become so familiar to the English ear and mind , as to be disjoined from their connexions , and applied with more or less frequency to words of native stock . Thus , we find Saxon words with French prefixes , as in en - dear , dis ...
... become so familiar to the English ear and mind , as to be disjoined from their connexions , and applied with more or less frequency to words of native stock . Thus , we find Saxon words with French prefixes , as in en - dear , dis ...
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4th Edition äfter Anglo-Saxon belong blindan Book C. S. Calverley century Chaucer consonant Crown 8vo dative declension declined dede Demy 8vo dialect Dictionary Elementary Treatise ending England ENGLISH LANGUAGE F. A. Paley Fcap forms French words genitive Geometry George Bell gode goden goden Gothic Grammar Greek helpen High German hulpe hwät idioms Indo-European inflected inflexion J. W. Donaldson Jhesus king kingen Latin Layamon lond M.A. 3rd Edition M.A. Fcap Masc modern English neut Norman number of words Ormulum participle pass passive participle peculiar perf perfect Piers Ploughman Plur plural Post 8vo preposition pres primary inflexion pronoun Prose R. C. Jebb root Saxon secondary inflexion Semi-Saxon seó sing sometimes spoken Subj syllable Teutonic languages thâ tham thät thatt thiss thou Translation verbs of primary verbs of secondary Verse vowel W. H. Besant wäs writers
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