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... roots may be made out , to a great extent , by the scientific comparison of the languages which are descended from it . The main branches of the Indo - European family are the following : - § 2. I. The INDIAN . The Sanskrit of the four ...
... roots may be made out , to a great extent , by the scientific comparison of the languages which are descended from it . The main branches of the Indo - European family are the following : - § 2. I. The INDIAN . The Sanskrit of the four ...
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... root appears with a variety of vowel- sounds , as in sing , sang , sung , song ; bind , bound , band , bond . Similar variations of vowel - sound are met with in other languages . What is peculiar to the Teutonic is the frequency and ...
... root appears with a variety of vowel- sounds , as in sing , sang , sung , song ; bind , bound , band , bond . Similar variations of vowel - sound are met with in other languages . What is peculiar to the Teutonic is the frequency and ...
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... root or stem of the verb . They are further characterized by that variation of the radical vowel ( internal inflexion ) , which has been already noticed as a striking peculiarity of the Teutonic . To the second class belong words like ...
... root or stem of the verb . They are further characterized by that variation of the radical vowel ( internal inflexion ) , which has been already noticed as a striking peculiarity of the Teutonic . To the second class belong words like ...
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... root of the verb to bear , Goth . bairan , Lat . fero ; while berfa , if not taken from the English , was formed on Celtic ground from the same root , as seen in Ir . beirim . For in many cases , when borrowing has occurred , it has ...
... root of the verb to bear , Goth . bairan , Lat . fero ; while berfa , if not taken from the English , was formed on Celtic ground from the same root , as seen in Ir . beirim . For in many cases , when borrowing has occurred , it has ...
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... roots that originally belonged to it . What is peculiar to the English is not that it has words borrowed from other languages , but that it has so many of them ; that a large part of its vocabulary is of foreign origin . In this respect ...
... roots that originally belonged to it . What is peculiar to the English is not that it has words borrowed from other languages , but that it has so many of them ; that a large part of its vocabulary is of foreign origin . In this respect ...
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