Principles of Greek Etymology, Volumen1

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Página 497 - Aureliam familiam ex Sabinis oriundam a Sole dictam putant, quod ei publice a populo Romano datus sit locus, in quo sacra facerent Soli, qui ex hoc Auseli(i) dicebantur, ut Valesii, Papisii pro eo quod est Valerii, Papirii.
Página 72 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
Página 116 - La liaison du sens et du mot n'est jamais nécessaire, jamais arbitraire ; toujours elle est motivée.
Página 110 - Greek language and that regular change of them which has become a law. For this reason the arrangement of a lexicon has been chosen for that part. In the third book we treat of the exceptions and endeavour to throw some further light upon a series of unessential phonetic transitions and modifications. At the same time it is needless to say that we do not regard either the one or the other class of phonetic change as accidental, but rather start with the opinion that laws penetrate this phonetic side...
Página 135 - Worte gesprochen: caeterum puto cavendum esse, ne illa grammaticorum de potestate radicum decreta nimis urgeantur, nam illis nihil vagius, nihil magis dubium et ambiguum esse potest. Diese Verzeichnisse — geben kaum etwas andres, als wenn jemand die lateinischen Verba in verba declarandi, sentiendi, eundi, Bplendendi nsw eintheilte.
Página xiv - Todd. 1855-60. 2 v. Adamnan. The life of St. Columba, founder of Ну . . . Notes ... by W. Reeves. 1857. Irish glosses. A mediaeval tract on Latin declension, with examples explained in Irish . . . Edited by W. Stokes. 1860. Annals of Ireland. Three fragments copied from ancient sources by D. MacFirbisigh; and edited . . . by J. O'Donovan. 1860. Reprinted from the Irish Quarterly Review. The topographical poems of John О Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh O'Huidhrin. Edited ... by J. O'Donovan. 1862....
Página xiv - Cormac's Glossary translated and annotated by the late John O'Donovan LL. D., edited with notes and indices by Whitley Stokee.
Página 104 - ... scholars, we should be obliged to renounce etymologising altogether. For it is only what is regular, and internally coherent, that can be scientifically investigated; what is arbitrary can at most be guessed at, never decided with certainty. The case is however, I believe, not quite so bad as that", but (page 81) "it is precisely in the life of sounds that fixed laws may be most surely discovered, which act almost with the consistency of the forces of nature".
Página 121 - A root, taken in its strictest sense, is a significant element, from which words, as forms of thought and parts of speech, are derived. It is not itself a word, but that which lies at the foundation of a whole family of words. The root has signification, but not a definite signification, in the system of our ideas or in the system of language. It does not express an idea which can form a component part of language, but only the intuition or appearance which is common to the noun or idea and the verb...
Página 110 - Every rational scientific process depends simply on the rule being distinguished from the exception, and this is why we insist upon a complete separation between the two classes of soundchange. In the second book of this treatise we shall have to examine the rule in its far-reaching influence, including the permanence of the Indogermanic- sounds in the Gm-k language and that regular change of them which has becomes a law.

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