An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... Babylonia . These in their several dialects1 assigned various names to the object denoted by the same hieroglyphic , and when the latter came to be used as a phonetic character , the various names became so many phonetic sounds . Every ...
... Babylonia . These in their several dialects1 assigned various names to the object denoted by the same hieroglyphic , and when the latter came to be used as a phonetic character , the various names became so many phonetic sounds . Every ...
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... Babylonian • How far Assyrian varied at different epochs , and in the mouths of the common people • • Notes to the above , filling up the details 3 5-15 Traces of degeneracy in the language . 15 • Use of the masculine for the feminine ...
... Babylonian • How far Assyrian varied at different epochs , and in the mouths of the common people • • Notes to the above , filling up the details 3 5-15 Traces of degeneracy in the language . 15 • Use of the masculine for the feminine ...
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... Babylonia , and in Persia . The Semitic character of the language is unmistakable ( 2 ) ; indeed , the fulness , antiquity , and syllabic character of its vocabulary and grammar would claim for it the same position among the Semitic ...
... Babylonia , and in Persia . The Semitic character of the language is unmistakable ( 2 ) ; indeed , the fulness , antiquity , and syllabic character of its vocabulary and grammar would claim for it the same position among the Semitic ...
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... Babylonian Semitic inscrip- tions of which we know belongs to Khammurabi ( ? Semi- ramis ) ( 28 ) , and records the construction of the Nahr - Malka , the great canal of Babylon , whose two towers were called after the names of the ...
... Babylonian Semitic inscrip- tions of which we know belongs to Khammurabi ( ? Semi- ramis ) ( 28 ) , and records the construction of the Nahr - Malka , the great canal of Babylon , whose two towers were called after the names of the ...
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... Babylonian , episu Assyrian , and ebisu Babylonian ) ; & like the sharper סרגון and בלשאצר becomes ah ( compare pronunciation of the northern Ephraimites , Judg . xii . 6 ) ; k is changed into c and g ( as in katu " hand " Assyrian ...
... Babylonian , episu Assyrian , and ebisu Babylonian ) ; & like the sharper סרגון and בלשאצר becomes ah ( compare pronunciation of the northern Ephraimites , Judg . xii . 6 ) ; k is changed into c and g ( as in katu " hand " Assyrian ...
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Accadian accent accusative Achæmenian period adjectives Æthiopic anacu aorist Aphel Arabic Aramaic Aryan Asiatic assimilated Assur-bani-pal Assyr Assyrian attached Babylonian become case-endings character Chinese cima cloth cognate languages compared concave verbs consonant denoted dental dialects DICTIONARY doubled dropped dual Edited enclitic English Ethiopic expressed F. J. FURNIVALL feminine termination genitive grammar guttural Hebrew Himyaritic Hincks IMPERATIVE instance interchange Iphteal Istaphal king letter masculine Ménant mimmation Niphal nomen mutati nomen permanentis nominative noun numerals omitted Oppert original Pael Palel participle passive Permansive person singular Phoenician Precative preceding prefix preposition present primitive pronunciation quadriliteral rare reduplication root Royal Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit sarru second person second radical Semitic languages Sennacherib sentence sewed Shaphel sibilant side sometimes status constructus subjunctive substantive suffix sunuti syllabaries syllable tablets tense Text third personal pronoun Translated triliteral Turanian ultu vowel vulgar weakened word
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