An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... language is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of one which is being gradually recovered from its native records . A dictionary , in the true sense of the word , is impossible : we can have only a vocabulary which is being ...
... language is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of one which is being gradually recovered from its native records . A dictionary , in the true sense of the word , is impossible : we can have only a vocabulary which is being ...
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... language which may bear some comparison with those of Hebrew or Ethiopic . Of course our acquaintance with the new study is constantly growing ; but it is growing rather upon the side of the lexicon than of the grammar . In spite of the ...
... language which may bear some comparison with those of Hebrew or Ethiopic . Of course our acquaintance with the new study is constantly growing ; but it is growing rather upon the side of the lexicon than of the grammar . In spite of the ...
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... language . And this merit will outweigh all the dis- advantages of arbitrary conclusions upon insufficient evidence , which have resulted not only in minor errors , but in three radical misconceptions - of an emphatic state , of the ...
... language . And this merit will outweigh all the dis- advantages of arbitrary conclusions upon insufficient evidence , which have resulted not only in minor errors , but in three radical misconceptions - of an emphatic state , of the ...
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... language . 15 • Use of the masculine for the 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 ...
... language . 15 • Use of the masculine for the 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 ...
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... 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 tongues that is held by Sanskrit in the Aryan family of ...
... 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 tongues that is held by Sanskrit in the Aryan family of ...
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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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