| Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 420 páginas
...reason as the manifestation of the light within us, there we see the true genesis of language. Analyse any word you like, and you will find that it expresses...begetter. What is the meaning of earth? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pa'su, the Latin pecus, which means feeders.... | |
| 1862 - 486 páginas
...question (on any theory but that of their divine origin) the meaning assigned to these various roots. " What is the meaning of moon ? — the measurer. What...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pa'su, the Latin pecus, which means feeders."... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1862 - 454 páginas
...reason as the manifestation of the light within us, there we see the true genesis of language. Analyze any word you like, and you will find that it expresses...to the individual to which the name belongs. What O is the meaning of moon? — the measurer. What is the meaning of sun ? — the begetter. What is... | |
| 1862 - 520 páginas
...question (on any theory but that of their divine origin) the meaning assigned to these " various roots. "What is the meaning of moon? — the measurer. What...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pa'su, the Latin pecus, which means feeders."... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 páginas
...reason as the manifestation of the light within us, there we see the true genesis of language. Analyse any word you like, and you will find that it expresses...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pasu, the Latin pecus, which means feeders.... | |
| 1863 - 490 páginas
...omitted altogether. His doctrine as to the origin of roots is somewhat strange. " Analyse any word yon like, and you will find that it expresses a general...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pdsu, the Latin pectin, which means feeders.... | |
| 1863 - 552 páginas
...Analyse any word yon like, and yon will find that it expresses a general idea peculiar to the individnal to which the name belongs. What is the meaning of...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ? — the ploughed. The old name given to animals, such as cows and sheep, was pdyn, the Latin pecus, which meaus feeders.... | |
| Anthropological Society of London - 1866 - 802 páginas
...derived from general ideas,'' the general being the first thing really known, and that every word " expresses a general idea peculiar to the individual to which the name belongs." If, by this, is meant that we actually have and recognise in our own minds general ideas, before we... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 382 páginas
...the roots he has identified were the original forms taken by language signs. " Analyze,"* he says, "any word you like, and you will find that it expresses...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ?— the ploughed." Here we have the general ideas preexisting in the mind embodied in the form of words, as the naming... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1868 - 364 páginas
...original forms taken by language signs. " Analyze,"* he says, " any word you like, and you will fir.d that it expresses a general idea peculiar to the individual...begetter. What is the meaning of earth ?— the ploughed." Here we have the general ideas preexisting in the mind embodied in the form of words, as the naming... | |
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