 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...Miiller calls our attention to this in the following questions, he leaves the difficulty unsolved : — " How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?...How was the abstract idea of measuring, expressed by m&, the idea of thinking by man ! How did gd come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, d& giving,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...can only gather from such isolated cases as when Von Hammer counts 5744 words relating to the camel.1 The fact that every word is originally a predicate,...expressed by md, the idea of thinking by man? How did ad come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, dd giving, mar dying, char walking, kar doing ?... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1862 - 692 pages
...these ideas, by the conditions of its being, it incarnates in rootwords. A final question arises : " How did roots become the signs of general ideas? How was the abstract idea, for example, of giving, expressed by the root-word dd? Muller answers: " The four hundred or five hundred... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 452 pages
...Von Hammer counts 5,744 words all relating to the camel.f * Cf. Yates, Sanshrit Grammar,, p. xviii. The fact that every word is originally a predicate...How was the abstract idea of measuring expressed by ma, the idea of thinking by man? How did ga come to mean going, sthd standing, sad sitting, da giving,... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...language appears to be superfluous. It is moreover the only true finality in language yet reached. " How can sound express thought ? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?" asks one distinguished student of the science of Language ; and the answer is : " The roots are... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Civilization - 1865 - 686 pages
...language appears to be superfluous. It is moreover the only true finality in language yet reached. " How can sound express thought ? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ?" asks one distinguished student of the science of Language ; and the answer is : " The roots are... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1866 - 506 pages
...however, much exaggeration in these statements. See Renan, Histoire des Langnes Semititliies, p. 377. The fact that every word is originally a predicate...of thinking by man ? How did gd come to mean going ; sthd, standing ; sad, sitting ; dd, giving ; mar, dying ; char, walking ; kar, doing ? I shall try... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1871 - 470 pages
...he says,1 ' and now I am afraid I have but a few minutes left to explain the last question of allin our science, namely — How can sound express thought?...How was the abstract idea of measuring expressed by ma, the idea of thinking by man?- How did g& come to mean going, stha standing, sad sitting, da giving,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1871 - 496 pages
...inquiry. Finally, regretting that he has "but a few minutes left" for its solution, he propounds " the last question of all in our science, namely :...thought? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ? " And he proceeds to say, " I shall try to answer as briefly as possible. They .... are not interjections,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Civilization, Oriental - 1873 - 466 pages
...inquiry. Finally, regretting that he has " but a few minutes left " for its solution, he propounds " the last question of all in our science, namely :...? How did roots become the signs of general ideas ? " And he proceeds to say, " I shall try to answer as briefly as possible. They .... are not interjections,... | |
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Greek language is logos, but logos means also reason, and alogon was chosen as the name, and the most proper name, for brute. No animal thinks, and no animal speaks, except man. Language and thought are inseparable. Words without thought are dead sounds;... 
