A Hand-book of Anglo-Saxon Derivatives: On the Basis of the Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Root-words. In Three Parts. First Part. Materials of Anglo-Saxon Derivatives. Second Part. Studies in Anglo-Saxon Derivatives. Third Part. The Beginning of Words ...D. Appleton & Company, 1854 - 285 pàgines |
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Anglo-Saxon derivatives ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE Anglo-Saxon words animal BEGINNING OF WORDS bird body breathing child cloth color consonant cover dawn derivative words diphthong draw early Saxons earth English language EXERCISE II fasten female firm fish flowing gather Give an instance Give instances grain grass Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon hands head heavens hood household iness INSTRUCTION instrument kind land less lessly letters lifted light lips lives male materials of Anglo-Saxon mind move NAMES OF ACTIONS NAMES OF QUALITIES NAMES OF THINGS ness EXERCISE ness EXERCISE III old Saxon organ of speech orthography plant plough prefix Repeat root-word sense sheep ship shoot shrub skin sleep soft soul sound spelling spoken ster strain stretch strike STUDY suffix syllables TERMINATIONS THAT MARK thread thrust TOOLS tree vowel wheel wind wings wood
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Pàgina 277 - Graham's English Synonymes, Classified and Explained. With practical Exercises, designed for Schools and Private Tuition ; with an Introduction and illustrative authorities. By HENHY P.EED, LL.D.
Pàgina 277 - Advanced Course" views it as a whole, no less than with reference to the individual words composing it ; shows how it compares with other tongues, modern and ancient; points out its beauties; indicates how they may best be made available ; and, in a word, teaches the student the most philosophical method of digesting and arranging his thoughts, as well as the most correct and effective mode of expressing them.
Pàgina 36 - Rule II. The final consonant of a monosyllable, if preceded by a single vowel, is doubled before a suffix beginning with a vowel ; as, hat, hatter.
Pàgina 41 - A termination is a letter or letters added to the end of a word to vary its meaning.
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