An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... texts . The cuneiform has been throughout transliterated into Roman characters , partly because the original type would ... text with references , so far as was possible ; and have only broken the rule in points where dispute might arise ...
... texts . The cuneiform has been throughout transliterated into Roman characters , partly because the original type would ... text with references , so far as was possible ; and have only broken the rule in points where dispute might arise ...
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... texts , trans- lated ) ; " Phonetic Values of the Cuneiform Characters , " and " Chronology of the reign of Sennacherib , " 1871. Lenormant , " Lettres Assyriologiques " ( on Media and Armenia ) , 1871 . Criticism of the interpretations ...
... texts , trans- lated ) ; " Phonetic Values of the Cuneiform Characters , " and " Chronology of the reign of Sennacherib , " 1871. Lenormant , " Lettres Assyriologiques " ( on Media and Armenia ) , 1871 . Criticism of the interpretations ...
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... texts in which they are formed belong to a corrupt period of the Assyrian language , and that the forms , therefore , are to be classed with other ( Aramaising ) peculiarities of the Persian period . The cases , however , are not quite ...
... texts in which they are formed belong to a corrupt period of the Assyrian language , and that the forms , therefore , are to be classed with other ( Aramaising ) peculiarities of the Persian period . The cases , however , are not quite ...
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... texts : until we know a good deal more of Assyrian than what can be gathered from the uniform phraseology of royal historical inscriptions , we must be con- tent to take what lies before us , and to believe that the Assyrian scribes ...
... texts : until we know a good deal more of Assyrian than what can be gathered from the uniform phraseology of royal historical inscriptions , we must be con- tent to take what lies before us , and to believe that the Assyrian scribes ...
Page 67
... text unnecessarily , and ( 2 ) to explain in the same way similar forms with similar significations . This will dispose of the monstrosities saldha epus ( for saldhaq , " I am ruling , " Persian patiyakhshiya ) and tsiba ieris for tsiba ...
... text unnecessarily , and ( 2 ) to explain in the same way similar forms with similar significations . This will dispose of the monstrosities saldha epus ( for saldhaq , " I am ruling , " Persian patiyakhshiya ) and tsiba ieris for tsiba ...
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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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