An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... termination of the Aorist in -i • PAGE 48 49 49 52 51 32 52 • • 54 The Four Moods : Precative , Subjunctive , Imperative , and Infinitive The Participle · • The Persons ( Singular , Plural , and Dual ) Origin of the Person - endings ...
... termination of the Aorist in -i • PAGE 48 49 49 52 51 32 52 • • 54 The Four Moods : Precative , Subjunctive , Imperative , and Infinitive The Participle · • The Persons ( Singular , Plural , and Dual ) Origin of the Person - endings ...
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... termination o , the Aramaic postfixed vowel , and such words as bar , " son " ) , or the Siniatic inscriptions ( which have bar and di for the relative pronoun ) . The vocabulary , again , is strikingly non - Aramaic ( note 6 ) . Thus ...
... termination o , the Aramaic postfixed vowel , and such words as bar , " son " ) , or the Siniatic inscriptions ( which have bar and di for the relative pronoun ) . The vocabulary , again , is strikingly non - Aramaic ( note 6 ) . Thus ...
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Archibald Henry Sayce. of the emphatic termination ( the postfixed article ) , the formation of the passive by vowel - mutation , the want of compound tenses ( in which Arabic agrees with Aramaic ) , the use of isu ( ) instead of Л , and ...
Archibald Henry Sayce. of the emphatic termination ( the postfixed article ) , the formation of the passive by vowel - mutation , the want of compound tenses ( in which Arabic agrees with Aramaic ) , the use of isu ( ) instead of Л , and ...
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... termination of the status constructus ) . According to Pal- grave , the three terminations are still to be heard in central Arabia ; further south and east a stands for i , and nearer the coast all three have entirely disappeared ...
... termination of the status constructus ) . According to Pal- grave , the three terminations are still to be heard in central Arabia ; further south and east a stands for i , and nearer the coast all three have entirely disappeared ...
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... termination . Thus ideographs came to take the place of the Hebrew literæ dilatabiles . Ordinarily , however , the words were spelled out phonetically in this case , the sounds attached to the characters by the Accadians , which had ...
... termination . Thus ideographs came to take the place of the Hebrew literæ dilatabiles . Ordinarily , however , the words were spelled out phonetically in this case , the sounds attached to the characters by the Accadians , which had ...
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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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