 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1841 - 202 pàgines
...voice, and constituting a word or part of a word ; as, a, an, ant. Л word of one syllable is called n. Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable...Trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent as signs of our ideas. Words are... | |
 | Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pàgines
...proper letters. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used, by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable ;...dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced... | |
 | 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...Trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. III. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas.... | |
 | Benjamin Steill - 1844 - 82 pàgines
...of a word ; as sun, pray, use, and sunflower, praying, and useful. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pàgines
...different words to express the same idea; thus, the thing which we call hat, a Frenchman calls chapeau. A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable ;...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Allen Fisk - 1846 - 180 pàgines
...propor letters. WORDS. Words are articulate sounds used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. * A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ;...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... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1846 - 272 pàgines
...a syllable or a union of syllables ; as, mat, mat-ter, mate-ri-al. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...A SYLLABLE is expressed by one emission, or impulse, of the voice. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable...trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. NOTE. — A distinct syllable can contain but one elemental vowel sound, What organs... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1848 - 270 pàgines
...a syllable or a union of syllables; as, mat, mat-ter, mate-ri-al. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable...trisyllable ; a word of four or more syllables, a poly syllable. Words are either underived, derived, or compounded. The first are called radical or... | |
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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... 
