An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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Page 11
... late date of the book , which cannot be brought into harmony with the in- scriptions . Laban ( Genesis xxxi . 47 ) was a Syrian of Mesopotamia ( xxviii . 5 ) . Sahadutha , 1 neither in form nor root , is found in Assyrian . Igaru ...
... late date of the book , which cannot be brought into harmony with the in- scriptions . Laban ( Genesis xxxi . 47 ) was a Syrian of Mesopotamia ( xxviii . 5 ) . Sahadutha , 1 neither in form nor root , is found in Assyrian . Igaru ...
Page 18
... late as the reign of Antiochus we have the cuneiform characters ( and apparently the language also ) still used . Since the decipherment of the inscriptions the following works upon the subject have appeared : — ( קבה ) ka - bu - ' w ...
... late as the reign of Antiochus we have the cuneiform characters ( and apparently the language also ) still used . Since the decipherment of the inscriptions the following works upon the subject have appeared : — ( קבה ) ka - bu - ' w ...
Page 36
... late date . There is no trace of aspiration in Assyrian in the letters b , g , d , c , p , t . In Hebrew also the dagesh lene would be of late introduction , caused by Aramaic influence , as the alphabet , like the cuneiform syllabary ...
... late date . There is no trace of aspiration in Assyrian in the letters b , g , d , c , p , t . In Hebrew also the dagesh lene would be of late introduction , caused by Aramaic influence , as the alphabet , like the cuneiform syllabary ...
Page 51
... late addition to the Semitic verb . This is confirmed by its being found only in Arabic and Assyrian . The passives of the other conjugations of the Assyrian verb are as follows : ( 3. ) Pael makes nussuku ( " they climbed up ...
... late addition to the Semitic verb . This is confirmed by its being found only in Arabic and Assyrian . The passives of the other conjugations of the Assyrian verb are as follows : ( 3. ) Pael makes nussuku ( " they climbed up ...
Page 87
... late period that the Semites came to distinguish between the various forms which a bi- literal root might take . The servile letters were for the most part absolutely interchangeable . The sharp divisions of the Hebrew grammarians are ...
... late period that the Semites came to distinguish between the various forms which a bi- literal root might take . The servile letters were for the most part absolutely interchangeable . The sharp divisions of the Hebrew grammarians are ...
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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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