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... words , which belonged to the parent language ; and , on the other hand , it has borrowed words very largely , to the extent even of half its vocabulary , from other languages , especially the French and the Latin . Yet all the ...
... words , which belonged to the parent language ; and , on the other hand , it has borrowed words very largely , to the extent even of half its vocabulary , from other languages , especially the French and the Latin . Yet all the ...
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... 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 BRIEF HISTORY OF.
... 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 BRIEF HISTORY OF.
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... words , brought in by the barbarian conquerors of the Western Roman Empire . But another Romance language - that of the Wallachians , the descendants of the Romanized Dacians - is largely intermixed with borrowed words , taken chiefly ...
... words , brought in by the barbarian conquerors of the Western Roman Empire . But another Romance language - that of the Wallachians , the descendants of the Romanized Dacians - is largely intermixed with borrowed words , taken chiefly ...
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... words from languages of other families . The English , for example , has taken from the Hebrew such words as shekel , cherub , seraph , jubilee , pharisee , cabala , etc .; and from some of them has formed derivatives , such as seraphic ...
... words from languages of other families . The English , for example , has taken from the Hebrew such words as shekel , cherub , seraph , jubilee , pharisee , cabala , etc .; and from some of them has formed derivatives , such as seraphic ...
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... words . They appear thus most frequently and regularly in the earliest Teutonic idioms ; many words which had them in the Anglo- Saxon have lost them in the English . Different from these variations of vowel is that attenuation , or ...
... words . They appear thus most frequently and regularly in the earliest Teutonic idioms ; many words which had them in the Anglo- Saxon have lost them in the English . Different from these variations of vowel is that attenuation , or ...
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