An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... original texts . The cuneiform has been throughout transliterated into Roman characters , partly because the original type would be at once expensive and cumbrous , and partly to facilitate the comparative studies of Semitic scholars ...
... original texts . The cuneiform has been throughout transliterated into Roman characters , partly because the original type would be at once expensive and cumbrous , and partly to facilitate the comparative studies of Semitic scholars ...
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... original home of the Semitic people was apparently Arabia ( 25 ) , whence the northern branch moved into Palestine , and then into Meso- potamia and Assyria . About B.c. 1270 ( 26 ) , under the name of Assyrian casidi , " conquerors ...
... original home of the Semitic people was apparently Arabia ( 25 ) , whence the northern branch moved into Palestine , and then into Meso- potamia and Assyria . About B.c. 1270 ( 26 ) , under the name of Assyrian casidi , " conquerors ...
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... original than when we compare the substantive suffixes throughout the Semitic dialects , and the absolute form of the first personal pronoun ( Assyrian anacu , where ana is explained by the root ) . For the change of and 7 , conf . ņ ...
... original than when we compare the substantive suffixes throughout the Semitic dialects , and the absolute form of the first personal pronoun ( Assyrian anacu , where ana is explained by the root ) . For the change of and 7 , conf . ņ ...
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... original usage , when it is con- sidered that the dental primitively stood before the root and had a reflexive meaning . 22. I cannot help believing that this was influenced by the neighbour- hood of their Turanian neighbours . The ...
... original usage , when it is con- sidered that the dental primitively stood before the root and had a reflexive meaning . 22. I cannot help believing that this was influenced by the neighbour- hood of their Turanian neighbours . The ...
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... original home of the race . It is the only part of the world which has remained exclusively Semite . The racial characteristics — intensity of faith , ferocity , exclusive- ness , imagination - can best be explained by a desert origin ...
... original home of the race . It is the only part of the world which has remained exclusively Semite . The racial characteristics — intensity of faith , ferocity , exclusive- ness , imagination - can best be explained by a desert origin ...
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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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