An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... meaning , In . ( כה and a for מן for מ just as we have ) לוה of לבית of ב Assyrian also cima is contracted into ci ( e.g. , ci pi , " according to the tongue ” ) , and limetu ( 1 ) is also found as li ( ? ) . So , too , before a con ...
... meaning , In . ( כה and a for מן for מ just as we have ) לוה of לבית of ב Assyrian also cima is contracted into ci ( e.g. , ci pi , " according to the tongue ” ) , and limetu ( 1 ) is also found as li ( ? ) . So , too , before a con ...
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... meaning . 22. I cannot help believing that this was influenced by the neighbour- hood of their Turanian neighbours . The Accadian had an aorist and a present , and with the machinery already possessed by the Assyrian verb , it was not ...
... meaning . 22. I cannot help believing that this was influenced by the neighbour- hood of their Turanian neighbours . The Accadian had an aorist and a present , and with the machinery already possessed by the Assyrian verb , it was not ...
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... meaning and form in many cases : and coincidences often happen in the most diverse languages ( e.g. Mandschu sengui and Latin sanguis ) . Words like compared with képas are borrowed ; and onomatopoeia has played a great part in the ...
... meaning and form in many cases : and coincidences often happen in the most diverse languages ( e.g. Mandschu sengui and Latin sanguis ) . Words like compared with képas are borrowed ; and onomatopoeia has played a great part in the ...
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... meaning , and we are not surprised , there- fore , to find the different terminations confounded one with the other . LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The first conscious attempts at the formation of a grammar -older probably than ...
... meaning , and we are not surprised , there- fore , to find the different terminations confounded one with the other . LITERATURE OF THE ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE . The first conscious attempts at the formation of a grammar -older probably than ...
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... , however , the words were spelled out phonetically in this case , the sounds attached to the characters by the Accadians , which had ceased to have any meaning for people who spoke another language ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR . 23 PHONOLOGY.
... , however , the words were spelled out phonetically in this case , the sounds attached to the characters by the Accadians , which had ceased to have any meaning for people who spoke another language ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR . 23 PHONOLOGY.
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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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