Tsuni-{u01C1}Goam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-KhoiTrübner & Company, Ludgate Hill, 1881 - 154 pages |
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... ideas fail , A word comes in most opportunely . ) It is useless therefore to extirpate it , for the custom of more than two centuries has sanctioned its use ; and all we can do is to define it more accurately . We should apply the term ...
... ideas fail , A word comes in most opportunely . ) It is useless therefore to extirpate it , for the custom of more than two centuries has sanctioned its use ; and all we can do is to define it more accurately . We should apply the term ...
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... idea of the number seven I cannot tell , but I think it possible . || Khaisi or khaisa , eight , is very clear from the root Ikhai , to turn ; thus || khaisi means " turning number " -i.e . , four is turning back again . Khoisi , nine ...
... idea of the number seven I cannot tell , but I think it possible . || Khaisi or khaisa , eight , is very clear from the root Ikhai , to turn ; thus || khaisi means " turning number " -i.e . , four is turning back again . Khoisi , nine ...
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... ideas of a Bushman and a Khoikhoi . This word Khoikhoi opens to us another page of the records of the pre - historic Hottentots . It proves that besides the San or Bushmen , there were no other nations known to the Khoikhoi . The ...
... ideas of a Bushman and a Khoikhoi . This word Khoikhoi opens to us another page of the records of the pre - historic Hottentots . It proves that besides the San or Bushmen , there were no other nations known to the Khoikhoi . The ...
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... idea , perception . I , to appear , to shine ; sib , form , shape , likeness , ap- pearance ; îsa and ixa , full of form , beautiful , pretty , handsome . Sĩ , to come , to arrive ; sĩ ( from sini ) , to cause to arrive— i.e. , to send ...
... idea , perception . I , to appear , to shine ; sib , form , shape , likeness , ap- pearance ; îsa and ixa , full of form , beautiful , pretty , handsome . Sĩ , to come , to arrive ; sĩ ( from sini ) , to cause to arrive— i.e. , to send ...
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... ideas and expressions well fitted to interpret the most sublime and sacred feelings of the human heart . An ... ideas introduced by missionaries have amalgamated to such a degree with the national religious ideas and mythologies , that ...
... ideas and expressions well fitted to interpret the most sublime and sacred feelings of the human heart . An ... ideas introduced by missionaries have amalgamated to such a degree with the national religious ideas and mythologies , that ...
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