An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... 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 not a mark of antiquity . 16 LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The grammatical ...
... 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 not a mark of antiquity . 16 LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The grammatical ...
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... common people was to some extent corrupted , and these corruptions may occasionally be detected in private tablets , and even in the royal inscriptions . Dr. Oppert instances kham - sa by the side of khan - sa " five " ; and we may add ...
... common people was to some extent corrupted , and these corruptions may occasionally be detected in private tablets , and even in the royal inscriptions . Dr. Oppert instances kham - sa by the side of khan - sa " five " ; and we may add ...
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... common in Pho- nician , but poetical in Hebrew , e.g. , pilu = 5y5 ( Hebrew usually my ) , alpu = ( Hebrew usually iv ) , arkhun ( Hebrew usually ) . It often happens that the Assyrian agrees only with the poetical ( archaic ) words and ...
... common in Pho- nician , but poetical in Hebrew , e.g. , pilu = 5y5 ( Hebrew usually my ) , alpu = ( Hebrew usually iv ) , arkhun ( Hebrew usually ) . It often happens that the Assyrian agrees only with the poetical ( archaic ) words and ...
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... common in Æthiopic , have be- come the rule in Arabic . As in Hebrew and Aramaic , there are no certain traces of them in Assyrian . Dr. Hincks believed he had detected two or three : balu , plural of ablu , “ son ” ( but this word ...
... common in Æthiopic , have be- come the rule in Arabic . As in Hebrew and Aramaic , there are no certain traces of them in Assyrian . Dr. Hincks believed he had detected two or three : balu , plural of ablu , “ son ” ( but this word ...
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... common to the Semitic tongues were originally foreign . A curious example of this may be found in khirat , khirtu ... common to the surrounding dialects . Ana and ina are merely accusative cases used adverbially : ana I would derive from ...
... common to the Semitic tongues were originally foreign . A curious example of this may be found in khirat , khirtu ... common to the surrounding dialects . Ana and ina are merely accusative cases used adverbially : ana I would derive from ...
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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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