An Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative PurposesTrübner, 1872 - 188 pages |
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... usual preformative of the imperfect , with the intensive particle lu prefixed . This has been united with the verb , causing the elision of the person - determinative , and in Syriac has been corrupted into n . 12. Broken plurals are a ...
... usual preformative of the imperfect , with the intensive particle lu prefixed . This has been united with the verb , causing the elision of the person - determinative , and in Syriac has been corrupted into n . 12. Broken plurals are a ...
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... usual in Aramaic and Mendaite . This is the word pulunge , " regions , " once used by Sargon ; which is , moreover , an Aramaic use of the usual palgu , a canal " ( but found also in Phoenician ) . 66 This unlikeness of Assyrian to the ...
... usual in Aramaic and Mendaite . This is the word pulunge , " regions , " once used by Sargon ; which is , moreover , an Aramaic use of the usual palgu , a canal " ( but found also in Phoenician ) . 66 This unlikeness of Assyrian to the ...
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... usual loss of emphatic N in the status constructus like the loss of the case- endings in Assyrian , and the circumscription of the genitive by the relative pronoun ( as in Ethiopic za ) , which is , however , sa ( not Aramaic or ...
... usual loss of emphatic N in the status constructus like the loss of the case- endings in Assyrian , and the circumscription of the genitive by the relative pronoun ( as in Ethiopic za ) , which is , however , sa ( not Aramaic or ...
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... . Cities were a product of Accadian civilization ; and the Assyrians retained in their usual term for " a city " alu ( = ) a remembrance of their original tent - life . with the accusative pronouns ; e.g. , attu - a 14 ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR .
... . Cities were a product of Accadian civilization ; and the Assyrians retained in their usual term for " a city " alu ( = ) a remembrance of their original tent - life . with the accusative pronouns ; e.g. , attu - a 14 ASSYRIAN GRAMMAR .
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... usual form . Niphal has acquired a passive signification . The cases of the noun which are accurately distinguished in the earliest inscriptions tend to be more and more improperly used until in the Persian period even -u has ceased to ...
... usual form . Niphal has acquired a passive signification . The cases of the noun which are accurately distinguished in the earliest inscriptions tend to be more and more improperly used until in the Persian period even -u has ceased to ...
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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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