Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...of the inflectional endings in the Aryan tongues. The most striking instance is the s the genitive singular, which was once common to them all, and persists to this day in several of the family (for example, Ger. voters, Eng. father's). The m of am is the sole relic in English of an element once universal in the first person singular of the verb (Sansc. asmi, Gr. eimi, Lat. sum). It is more easy to make the radical sameness of the individual words apparent. In judging of this sameness, we are no longer guided by mere similarity of sound: on the contrary, identity of sound is generally a presumption that a proposed etymology is wrong. Words, as we have seen, are constantly undergoing change, and each language follows its own fashion in making those changes. Corresponding words, therefore, in allied tongues must, as a rule, differ, and the differences follow certain laws which it is possible to ascertain; and unless a proposed identification accord yith those laws, it is inadmissible. We are not at liberty to suppose any arbitrary omission of a letter, or substitution of one letter for another, as was the fashion in the old guessing school of etymology. Thus, it would be inadmissible to assume Old Irish athir to be identical with Latin pater, unless it be proved to be the habit of the Irish to drop the initial p of the original word; but this is seen to be the case by such additional instances as iasg, Old Irish isc = Lat. pisc(is), a fish; Ian = Lat. plenus) full. GRIMM'S LAW. 48. Of the laws of interchange of sounds in the IndoEuropean family, the most important is that known as Grimm's Law, so called after the famous German philologist who investigated it. It is of extensive application, affecting Jhe whole consonantal structure of the Aryan tongues, and i...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...of the inflectional endings in the Aryan tongues. The most striking instance is the s the genitive singular, which was once common to them all, and persists to this day in several of the family (for example, Ger. voters, Eng. father's). The m of am is the sole relic in English of an element once universal in the first person singular of the verb (Sansc. asmi, Gr. eimi, Lat. sum). It is more easy to make the radical sameness of the individual words apparent. In judging of this sameness, we are no longer guided by mere similarity of sound: on the contrary, identity of sound is generally a presumption that a proposed etymology is wrong. Words, as we have seen, are constantly undergoing change, and each language follows its own fashion in making those changes. Corresponding words, therefore, in allied tongues must, as a rule, differ, and the differences follow certain laws which it is possible to ascertain; and unless a proposed identification accord yith those laws, it is inadmissible. We are not at liberty to suppose any arbitrary omission of a letter, or substitution of one letter for another, as was the fashion in the old guessing school of etymology. Thus, it would be inadmissible to assume Old Irish athir to be identical with Latin pater, unless it be proved to be the habit of the Irish to drop the initial p of the original word; but this is seen to be the case by such additional instances as iasg, Old Irish isc = Lat. pisc(is), a fish; Ian = Lat. plenus) full. GRIMM'S LAW. 48. Of the laws of interchange of sounds in the IndoEuropean family, the most important is that known as Grimm's Law, so called after the famous German philologist who investigated it. It is of extensive application, affecting Jhe whole consonantal structure of the Aryan tongues, and i...
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