 The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs,...  Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction - Seite 2von James Clackson - 2007Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demer, Ann K. Farmer, Robert M. Harnish - 2001 - 628 Seiten
...structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin ... yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Edwin Bryant - 2001 - 400 Seiten
...more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Li Jin, Mark Seielstad, Chunjie Xiao - 2001 - 196 Seiten
...copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a strong affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms...examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though... | |
 | Edo Nyland - 2001 - 576 Seiten
...languages, such as Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Celtic and Persian must come from the same source: "a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that nophilologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source,... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 Seiten
...Jones announced that he found Sanskrit to bear a 'stronger affinity' to the Latin and Greek languages 'than could possibly have been produced by accident;...examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source which, perhaps, no longer exists'. Jones also supposed that Gothic,... | |
 | Thomas Burrow - 2001 - 486 Seiten
...refined than either ; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been...strong indeed that no philologer could examine them at all without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists.... | |
 | Aniket Jaaware - 2001 - 576 Seiten
...more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could have been produced by accident; so strong that no philologer could examine all the three without believing... | |
 | Joseph Farrell - 2001 - 170 Seiten
...Discourse to the Asiatic Society of Bengal that the relationship among Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit was "so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."22 He further opined that Gothic,... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, John Algeo, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 676 Seiten
...William Jones announced his realization that Sanskrit bore so strong an "affinity" to Latin and Greek "that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists" (cited by Lehmann). With this... | |
 | Terry Crowley - 2002 - 308 Seiten
...more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and...examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists: there is similar reason, though... | |
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