The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its Vocabulary : with Exercises on Synonyms, Prefixes and Suffixes, Word-analysis and Word Building : a Text-book for High Schools and CollegesMaynard, Merrill, 1893 - 220 sider |
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Side 10
... syllables - two in the first section and one in the second . Anglo - Saxon poetry , hardly thirty thousand lines in all , has been preserved in part in two manuscripts - the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book - the latter found in 1832 ...
... syllables - two in the first section and one in the second . Anglo - Saxon poetry , hardly thirty thousand lines in all , has been preserved in part in two manuscripts - the Exeter Book and the Vercelli Book - the latter found in 1832 ...
Side 19
... syllables had been squeezed into one ; as , French súr , our sure , from original Latin securus ; French règle , our rule , from Latin regula ; French île , English isle , from insula . And sometimes the final and unaccented syllable or ...
... syllables had been squeezed into one ; as , French súr , our sure , from original Latin securus ; French règle , our rule , from Latin regula ; French île , English isle , from insula . And sometimes the final and unaccented syllable or ...
Side 30
... syllable , disappeared from the orthography as well as from pronunciation . At its disappearance , had there been no adoption from the French nor any extension of forms already in Anglo - Saxon , the English noun would be even more ...
... syllable , disappeared from the orthography as well as from pronunciation . At its disappearance , had there been no adoption from the French nor any extension of forms already in Anglo - Saxon , the English noun would be even more ...
Side 33
... syllable to modify its vowel in the direction of i . This variation is called mutation , and shows its striæ in many other English words . The i of the ending disappeared , as the change of vowel it had wrought in the stem was regarded ...
... syllable to modify its vowel in the direction of i . This variation is called mutation , and shows its striæ in many other English words . The i of the ending disappeared , as the change of vowel it had wrought in the stem was regarded ...
Side 36
... syllable to the simple stem of the adjective ; the superlative , by adding a suffix to the comparative . In the Teutonic member of the family , is or os was the suffix added to form the comparative ; to this , ta was attached to form ...
... syllable to the simple stem of the adjective ; the superlative , by adding a suffix to the comparative . In the Teutonic member of the family , is or os was the suffix added to form the comparative ; to this , ta was attached to form ...
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abl+y able able+ness adjective al+ist al+ize al+ly or al+ity ance Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cá tus called Celtic Celts circum Conquest consonants cyrice dative declension denote derivative dropped ed+ly ed+ness ency ending English ent+ly or ence fi+er ficat+ion French ful+ly genitive give grammatical Greek Helps hence i)ous i)ous+ly ibil+ity ibility ible ic+al infinitive inflections ing+ly inter ion or ive ion+al ion+ary ive or ive+ly ive+ness J. S. Mill KELLOGG'S language Latin LESSON ly or ness meaning ment metaphorical metonymy ná tus neuter Norman Norman Conquest noun object one's or+ship ous+ly ous+ness past participle personal pronoun Picts plural prefixes and suffixes preterite Pupil Pupil.-¹ rá tus root root-forms Saxon singular sound speech spoken strong verbs subjunctive suffixes syllable synonyms tense Teutonic things tion tive tongue verb vocabulary vowel