An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... feminine not a mark of antiquity . 16 LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The grammatical tablets of Assur - bani - pal 17 List of modern publications . PHONOLOGY . 18 Origin of the Assyrian syllabary • Transcription of the alphabet ...
... feminine not a mark of antiquity . 16 LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The grammatical tablets of Assur - bani - pal 17 List of modern publications . PHONOLOGY . 18 Origin of the Assyrian syllabary • Transcription of the alphabet ...
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... of the terminations of the feminine , the plural , and the dual • • 121 The Cases . The Construct State 123 125 The Pronominal Suffixes of the Noun . · 127 THE NUMERALS . Origin of the Semitic Numerals . The CONTENTS . XV.
... of the terminations of the feminine , the plural , and the dual • • 121 The Cases . The Construct State 123 125 The Pronominal Suffixes of the Noun . · 127 THE NUMERALS . Origin of the Semitic Numerals . The CONTENTS . XV.
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... feminine nouns , e.g. Istaru yu - sap - ri " Istar disclosed . " The language also in the mouths of the common people was to some extent corrupted , and these corruptions may occasionally be detected in private tablets , and even in the ...
... feminine nouns , e.g. Istaru yu - sap - ri " Istar disclosed . " The language also in the mouths of the common people was to some extent corrupted , and these corruptions may occasionally be detected in private tablets , and even in the ...
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... feminine always ends in t ( like classical Arabic , Æthiopic , and Phoenician ) both in noun and verb . With Hebrew must be classed Phoenician and Moabite ( as found in the inscriptions of Mesha ) . Phoenician agrees with Assyrian in ...
... feminine always ends in t ( like classical Arabic , Æthiopic , and Phoenician ) both in noun and verb . With Hebrew must be classed Phoenician and Moabite ( as found in the inscriptions of Mesha ) . Phoenician agrees with Assyrian in ...
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... feminine formation from the Accadian kharra , " man " ( ? , Syriac khira ) . Some roots , lost in the other dialects , are found in Ethiopic and Assyrian alone : e.g. basu , " to exist , " has been well compared by Dr. Oppert with ...
... feminine formation from the Accadian kharra , " man " ( ? , Syriac khira ) . Some roots , lost in the other dialects , are found in Ethiopic and Assyrian alone : e.g. basu , " to exist , " has been well compared by Dr. Oppert with ...
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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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