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... seen in the cuneiform ( or arrow- headed ) inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes . The modern Persian has lost nearly all the ancient inflexion , and with the Mohammedan religion has adopted a multitude of words from the Arabic . Other 8 A ...
... seen in the cuneiform ( or arrow- headed ) inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes . The modern Persian has lost nearly all the ancient inflexion , and with the Mohammedan religion has adopted a multitude of words from the Arabic . Other 8 A ...
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... seen in Otfrid's Krist , Notker's Translation of the Psalms , and other monuments , most of them in verse , from the eighth century to the end of the eleventh . The Middle High German , from the twelfth to the fifteenth century , has a ...
... seen in Otfrid's Krist , Notker's Translation of the Psalms , and other monuments , most of them in verse , from the eighth century to the end of the eleventh . The Middle High German , from the twelfth to the fifteenth century , has a ...
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... seen in the inflection of Anglo - Saxon adjectives and demonstratives . The remaining four cases , the nominative , accusative , dative , and genitive , are com- mon to all the older Teutonic languages , and are still distinguished in ...
... seen in the inflection of Anglo - Saxon adjectives and demonstratives . The remaining four cases , the nominative , accusative , dative , and genitive , are com- mon to all the older Teutonic languages , and are still distinguished in ...
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... ( seen in Greek Aé - Av - ka , 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 ...
... ( seen in Greek Aé - Av - ka , 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 ...
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... ( seen in Eng . un - couth ) , has nothing to do with Welsh gwydd , knowledge ; gwydd stands , by Welsh euphony , for earlier vid , which corresponds to Lat . vid - eo , Eng . wit ( as verb , to know ) ; while cûdh is identical with Ger ...
... ( seen in Eng . un - couth ) , has nothing to do with Welsh gwydd , knowledge ; gwydd stands , by Welsh euphony , for earlier vid , which corresponds to Lat . vid - eo , Eng . wit ( as verb , to know ) ; while cûdh is identical with Ger ...
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