An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... short vowel in the second syllable was generally dropped before the case- endings . The accent and the quantity seem to have coincided , as in Arabic , whenever a word possessed a long syllable not further back than the antepenult or ...
... short vowel in the second syllable was generally dropped before the case- endings . The accent and the quantity seem to have coincided , as in Arabic , whenever a word possessed a long syllable not further back than the antepenult or ...
Page 37
Archibald Henry Sayce. word consisted of three short syllables , the second vowel was generally dropped , making the first a closed syllable long by position ; thus măliců becomes malcu . The enclitic threw back the accent upon the ...
Archibald Henry Sayce. word consisted of three short syllables , the second vowel was generally dropped , making the first a closed syllable long by position ; thus măliců becomes malcu . The enclitic threw back the accent upon the ...
Page 38
... short syllables . Yatima , " me here " ( e.g. cima yātima , " like me here " ) , has the demonstrative ma added ( as in suma ) , for which see below . only at the beginning of a sentence , but we find also ikbi yati , " he told me . " I ...
... short syllables . Yatima , " me here " ( e.g. cima yātima , " like me here " ) , has the demonstrative ma added ( as in suma ) , for which see below . only at the beginning of a sentence , but we find also ikbi yati , " he told me . " I ...
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... short ( ă ) ( lengthened in Æthiopic , Hebrew , [ and Arabic ] , though words like Ethiopic yrgyna , " age , " bear witness to an originally short vowel ) , thus distinguishing it from the long vowel of the plural termination in ānu ...
... short ( ă ) ( lengthened in Æthiopic , Hebrew , [ and Arabic ] , though words like Ethiopic yrgyna , " age , " bear witness to an originally short vowel ) , thus distinguishing it from the long vowel of the plural termination in ānu ...
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... short tonic vowel may strengthen itself by an inserted nasal , e.g. zyntu for zytu . 2 This cannot be passive of Pael , as the meaning is against it , and we ought to have yulubbisu . ( " smitten " ) , nikha ( " rested 50 ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR .
... short tonic vowel may strengthen itself by an inserted nasal , e.g. zyntu for zytu . 2 This cannot be passive of Pael , as the meaning is against it , and we ought to have yulubbisu . ( " smitten " ) , nikha ( " rested 50 ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR .
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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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