An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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Page ix
... radical misconceptions - of an emphatic state , of the want of a Perfect ( or Permansive ) and 1 Thus tadāni Arb ' - il - khirat , " the giving up of A. " appears in the Phoenician legend as ; pan Mannuci - Arb ' - il , “ in the ...
... radical misconceptions - of an emphatic state , of the want of a Perfect ( or Permansive ) and 1 Thus tadāni Arb ' - il - khirat , " the giving up of A. " appears in the Phoenician legend as ; pan Mannuci - Arb ' - il , “ in the ...
Page xv
... radicals Nouns from defective verbs . Nouns formed by the Prefix m- By the affix -ānu ( -inu ) By t affixed ( to build abstracts ) By t prefixed . · • • • 102 104 · 105 • 107 108 109 • • 109 110 110 111 111 112 113 • 114 By a prefixed ...
... radicals Nouns from defective verbs . Nouns formed by the Prefix m- By the affix -ānu ( -inu ) By t affixed ( to build abstracts ) By t prefixed . · • • • 102 104 · 105 • 107 108 109 • • 109 110 110 111 111 112 113 • 114 By a prefixed ...
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... radicals common to the Semitic tongues were originally foreign . A curious example of this may be found in khirat , khirtu , " woman , " a Semitic feminine formation from the Accadian kharra , " man " ( ? , Syriac khira ) . Some roots ...
... radicals common to the Semitic tongues were originally foreign . A curious example of this may be found in khirat , khirtu , " woman , " a Semitic feminine formation from the Accadian kharra , " man " ( ? , Syriac khira ) . Some roots ...
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... radical , e.g. ah - a - bid , " I perish , " u - h - a - bid , from 78 , u - sa - h - lid , ah - al - du from ( 2 ) . 1 This is an instance of the tendency of the Assyrians to corrupt their language by breaking down the syllables . In ...
... radical , e.g. ah - a - bid , " I perish , " u - h - a - bid , from 78 , u - sa - h - lid , ah - al - du from ( 2 ) . 1 This is an instance of the tendency of the Assyrians to corrupt their language by breaking down the syllables . In ...
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... radical . This is the rule with verbs , though we meet with inandin for inaddin ( " it is given " ) . Contrary , however , to Hebrew , n is assimilated ( regularly ) before t and 8 ; e.g. limuttu for limuntu ( “ injured " ) , libittu ...
... radical . This is the rule with verbs , though we meet with inandin for inaddin ( " it is given " ) . Contrary , however , to Hebrew , n is assimilated ( regularly ) before t and 8 ; e.g. limuttu for limuntu ( “ injured " ) , libittu ...
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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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