History of the European Languages: Or, Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic, Greek, Celtic, Sclavonic, and Indian Nations, Volume 2Archibald Constable & Company, 1823 - Indo-European languages |
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accusative action active adjective adverbs affinity ages Alamannic ancient Anglo-Saxon aorist called Celtic Chaldee close common composition compounds consignificative consonants contraction corrupted Cymraig dative denoted derivative dialects Dual English examples express feminine future genitive German gone Gothic Goths Greek Greek and Latin guage Herodotus Indian infinitive inflections joined king language lects manner masculine means Medes move nations nature neuter nominative nouns object observe original passive perform Persians Persic person philologist philology Plur plural possession preposition present participle preterite participle preterite tense pronouns race radical resemblance Sanscrit Sarmatae Sarmatic Saxon scrit Scythae Scythian sense signifies similar singular Slavic Slavonic sound speak species speech subjunctive Suevic syllable termination Teutonic Teutonic dialects Thessaly thing thou tion tive tribes turn varieties verbs Visigothic voice vowel whence words Zend