An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... objects of study , and the results of which were at once startling and revo- lutionary , while the decipherers were not always distinguished by scholarship or caution , the method of interpretation has at last won its way to general ...
... objects of study , and the results of which were at once startling and revo- lutionary , while the decipherers were not always distinguished by scholarship or caution , the method of interpretation has at last won its way to general ...
Page viii
... object denoted by the same hieroglyphic , and when the latter came to be used as a phonetic character , the various names became so many phonetic sounds . Every character , however , continued to be employed as an ideograph as well as ...
... object denoted by the same hieroglyphic , and when the latter came to be used as a phonetic character , the various names became so many phonetic sounds . Every character , however , continued to be employed as an ideograph as well as ...
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... object or notion , sometimes more than one , as in Egyptian and Chinese . Different sounds , consequently , were attached to the same character , either because the object or idea admitted of different names , or because the various ...
... object or notion , sometimes more than one , as in Egyptian and Chinese . Different sounds , consequently , were attached to the same character , either because the object or idea admitted of different names , or because the various ...
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... object , as in ( ? ) , 77 , Æthiopic zycu ( “ that ” ) . As the word , however , does not make its appearance until the Achæmenian period , perhaps it is best to regard it as of foreign origin.1 In classical Assyrian three ...
... object , as in ( ? ) , 77 , Æthiopic zycu ( “ that ” ) . As the word , however , does not make its appearance until the Achæmenian period , perhaps it is best to regard it as of foreign origin.1 In classical Assyrian three ...
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... it either stands in a conditional sentence or has its object following it , so that the action of the verb is moved forward to the noun . I have not found it used as a cohortative , a sense which arises from ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR . 55.
... it either stands in a conditional sentence or has its object following it , so that the action of the verb is moved forward to the noun . I have not found it used as a cohortative , a sense which arises from ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR . 55.
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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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