 | Benjamin Steill - 1844 - 82 pàgines
...entire word and sometimes a part of a word ; as sun, pray, use, and sunflower, praying, and useful. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable; a...dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and one of four or more syllables is called a polysyllable. ETYMOLOGY. Q. Explain more particularly... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1844 - 234 pàgines
...single impulse of the voice; as, at an, ant. A word of one syllable, is termed a Monosyl • lable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of...a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. III. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. Words are of... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pàgines
...General. Words are articulate or jointed sounds, used by common consent, as the signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable. A word of two syllables, a dissylable. A word of three syllables, a trissylable. A word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1845 - 118 pàgines
...The elements of words are syllables and letters. A word of one syllable is called a mmiosyllable ; a word of \ two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisylj lable ; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable. I Every word of more than one... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1846 - 272 pàgines
...voice ; as, ab, id. A word is either a syllable or a union of syllables ; as, mat, mat-ter, mate-ri-al. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ;...word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; a word of fo IT or more syllables, a poly syllable. Words are either underived, derived, or compounded. The first... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pàgines
...idea; thus, the thing which we call hat, a Frenchman calls chapeau. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words were, originally, what are now termed... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pàgines
...and men another. A word is a syllable, or a combination of syllables, used as the sign of some idea. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; of three syllables, a trisyllable ; of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. EXEECISES. Tell which... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 pàgines
...articulate sounds used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. * A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of three syllables a Trysyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. All words are either primitive... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1846 - 354 pàgines
...Syllable is a distinct sound, forming the whole of a word, or so much of it as can be sounded at once. A word of one syllable is called a Monosyllable. A word of two syllables is called a 'Dissyllable. A word of three syllables is called a Trissyllable. A word of many syllables... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...SYLLABLES, WORDS, and SENTENCES. 2. A SYLLABLE is expressed by one emission, or impulse, of the voice. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ;...a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. NOTE. — A distinct syllable can contain but one elemental vowel sound, What organs of the voice are... | |
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A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable, a word of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is... 
