A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages, Volume 3

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Page 1377 - ... 971. The Gothic, in my opinion, never makes use of a conjunctive vowel in its compounds, and does not require one, as it has but few bases which end in a consonant, and these are principally such as terminate in n. These, however, as in Sanscrit, suppress (see §. 139.) the n at the beginning of compounds; hence, eg, smakka-bagms, " fig-tree
Page 1187 - VARU&A performs the rite of preservation.* We desire him, as the guide of our way: (to him the repeater of praise) addresses praise, with his (whole) heart. May he, who is entitled to laudation, become our true (support). Heaven and earth, be conscious of this (my affliction). Varga xxiii. 16. The sun, who is, avowedly, made the path in heaven," is not to be disregarded, gods, by you;' but you, mortals, regard him not.
Page 1248 - by me following"). co-ordinate, and stand in the relation of apposition to one another (I saw "him" and "falling," " actionem cadendi"). It appears, however, from the context, but is not formally expressed, that the action expressed by the second object is performed by the person or thing expressed by the first object ("I saw the stone fall"). To this head belong, for the most part, the examples collected by Gabelentz and Lobe, p. 249, un[G. Ed. p. 1286.] der 1.), 2.), 3.), 4.),* of which I annex...
Page 1419 - Lithuanian, yey zmonems atleisite yu mussideyimus, tai atleis ir yums yusu tewas danguyensis, " if ye forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will also forgive you" (Matt. vi. 14). PREPOSITIONS. 997. The genuine prepositions, and such adverbs as in form and meaning are connected with prepositions, admit universally of being derived with greater or less certainty from pronouns : according to their signification they are based on such antithetical terms as "this" and "that," "this side...
Page 1423 - I was the first to draw attention to this fact (sue §. 229., and cf. Burnouf, " Yacna," Notes, p. 73), and, indeed, at a time when but little was known of Zend forms, so as to admit of being brought together for comparison in my Comparative Grammar. In general, I believe I may, in contradiction to an assertion of Spiegel's (Weber's "Indian Studies...
Page 1280 - This word occurs frequently in the Vedic hymns : I would not, however, from the circumstance that the Vedic poets delight in extolling the sun-god as "producer" (of the produce of the fields), as also as " supporter" (pushan), deduce the inference that the proper designation of the sun, which existed so early as the time of the unity of the languages, must have pointed towards this image; for it certainly approximates more to the primary view of people to designate the sun as "lighting," or "shining,"...
Page 1247 - I bade him go," lass mich gehen, " let me go," analogous cases to which occur in Sanscrit (see p. 1209 G. ed.), can be taken otherwise than so that the working of the operation of seeing, hearing, &c., falls directly upon the person or thing which one sees, hears, charges, &c., and then upon the action expressed by the infinitive which one in like manner sees, hears, &c. The two objects of the verb are * The Gothic syntax agrees with the Sanscrit in this, that in the above sentence the adjective...
Page 1339 - over" (Sanscrit upari), comes ufar-as-su-s, "overflow ing," a form remarkable as being the only one in which the abstract double suffix is not preceded by an n of the primitive base. In the more modern dialects the n, which belongs in Gothic to the base word, has, by an abuse, completely passed over into the derivative suffix, which hence begins universally with n...
Page 1438 - German fora, foro, for, furi, fori, fore, &c., the meanings " before" and " for" are not firmly distinguished by the form (see Graff, III. 612.). The i of furi I take to be the weakening of the a of fora. As in Latin gutturals very often stand for labials, eg, in quinque for pinque (§. 313.), coquo for poquo (Sanscrit pach, from pak, "to cook"), so, perhaps, the c of c6ram might be taken as the representative of p, and the whole word be referred to the class of words which, in Sanscrit, Zend, and...
Page 1173 - Observe that the ordinary accusative also occasionally expresses the relation of the cause or of the object; as, Bhagavad Gita, XVI. 3. 4. 5., sampadan ddivim abhijatd 'si, " to a god-like destiny art thou born." Conversely we sometimes find the dative of common abstracts in constructions where the infinitive was to be expected in its genuine accusative function. I have already, in a Note to "Arjuna's journey to Indra's heaven

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