A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic LanguagesMadden and Malcolm, 1845 - 1462 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviation ablative according accus adjective bases adverbs analogy Anquetil answers Anusvâra appears arisen aspirates become belongs bhis Burnouf comp compounds connected corresponds Crit dative declension derived dialect diphthong Dobrowsky dual end of words euphonic example express feminine bases final vowel formation frequently gender genitive Gothic Gramm Grammar Greek Grimm Guna guttural hence identical Indian inflection instance Instr instrumental kindred languages labial Latin lengthening letter LITHUAN Lithuanian locative masc masculine medials Middle High German nasal neuter nominative and accusative nouns occurs Old High German Old Sclavonic original person plural Prakrit preceding preposition preserved preterite pronominal base pronoun recognise regard relation remains remarked root Sansc Sanscrit and Zend scrit semi-vowel shews sibilant signifies singular sonant sound stands substantive suffix superlative suppressed syllable termination theme tion tive uninflected unorganic Vêda Vend Vendidad verb vocative Vriddhi weakened whence
Passagens conhecidas
Página 101 - On pourrait les appeler les langues organiques, parce qu'elles renferment un principe vivant de développement et d'accroissement, et qu'elles ont seules, si je puis m'exprimer ainsi, une végétation abondante et féconde.
Página 101 - Schlegel, who treats the formative syllables, producing such numerous and important modifications of the meaning of words, as in themselves destitute of signification. Speaking of the family of languages with inflections, he observes — 'Le merveilleux artifice de ces langues est, de former une immense variete...
Página ix - we are unwilling to receive the Zend as a mere dialect of the Sanscrit, and to which we are compelled to ascribe an independent existence, resembling that of the Latin as compared with the Greek, or the old Northern with the Gothic. It in many respects reaches beyond, and is an improvement on. the Sanscrit.
Página 102 - On compose des mots de plusieurs racines pour exprimer les idées complexes. Ensuite on décline les substantifs, les adjectifs et les pronoms, par genres, par nombres et par cas ; on conjugue les verbes par voix, par modes, par temps, par nombres et par personnes, en employant de même des désinences et quelquefois des augments, qui séparément ne signifient rien.
Página 96 - ... pronounced by means of a simple vowel, and probably (as we may infer from the monosyllabic forms 2*!?, 7?, '-^ more allied in sense to the noun than to the verb. We may say, to a certain extent, of the primitive Semitic roots, what Bopp has affirmed of one class of Sanscrit roots, that from them " spring verbs and nouns (substantives and adjectives), which stand in fraternal connection with the verbs, not in the relation of descent from them, not begotten by them, but sprung from the same shoot...
Página 168 - ... aman(t)s. In general, in Latin, in consonant bases, the perception of the distinction of gender is very much blunted, as, contrary to the principle followed by the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, and Gothic, the feminine is no longer distinguished from the masculine. 153. In Gothic substantives, as well neuter as masculine, the case sign m is wanting, and hence neuter bases in a stand on the same footing with the i, u, and consonant bases of the kindred languages, in that, in the nominative and accusative,...
Página vii - ... languages is not less universal, but in most of its bearings of a quality infinitely more refined. " The members of this race inherited, from the period of their earliest youth, endowments of exceeding richness, and with a system of unlimited composition and agglutination. Possessing much, they are...
Página vi - East, which should accompany, part passu, nay, sometimes surpass, the Greek in all those perfections of form which have been hitherto considered the exclusive property of the latter, and be adapted throughout to adjust the perennial strife between the Greek dialects, by enabling us to determine where each of them has preserved the purest and the oldest forms ? The relations of the ancient Indian languages to their European kindred are, in part, so palpable as to be obvious to every one who casts...
Página v - I shall leave untouched, the secret of the roots, or the foundation of the nomenclature of the primary ideas. I shall not investigate, for example, why the root / signifies " go " and not " stand " ; why the combination of sounds STHA or STA signifies " stand" and not