This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... Ablaut is. to be sought in the Indo-European accent. In general the strongly accented.syllables have developed fuller vowels, whilst the less accented syllables ha(rgTjIej), nd. shorter vawels. In order to avoid needless repetition, we refer the student for the details of the laws of Ablaut to the chapter on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... Ablaut is. to be sought in the Indo-European accent. In general the strongly accented.syllables have developed fuller vowels, whilst the less accented syllables ha(rgTjIej), nd. shorter vawels. In order to avoid needless repetition, we refer the student for the details of the laws of Ablaut to the chapter on verbal inflexions. If we compare German substantives and adjectives with their etymological equivalents in Latin, e.g. Halm--calamus, Wind--ventus, Fisch--piscis, Haut, Mhg. h&t--cutis, Joch, Got. juk--jugum, Hals--collum (from colsum), Horn--cornu, we are struck by the want of endings of the GerTPff1 mjrl This was not their original condition; but after the Teutonic had split up into its different language stocks, there was an early tendency, before the time of the earliest literary records, to weaken the unaccented final syllables. After the dropping of the final s or _TO, n?oLof the.vowels. w.ere suppressed. We saw above (see p. 18) that the transition from Old High German to Middle High German is marked by a weakening of the fuller final syllables. A similar process took place in the 7 development of Middle High_Grjnan_j.New.High German. We may say des Tages or Tags, dem Tage or Tag, des'Wefkes or Werks, dem Werke or Werk, but as a rule des Landtags, dem Landtag, des Handwerks, dem Handwerk, not Landtages or Landtage; similarly, des Konigs, dem Konig, not Koniges, Konige. Again, beside Friede, Heide we have the derivatives friedlioh, heidnisch, and from nieder, Himmel we have niedrig, himmlisch. In each case an original e has dropped away, and these words are almost always so constructed that the syllable which has the principal accent (Hochton) is either followed first by a syllable with the secondary accent (Tiefton)...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Red clothbound octavo hardback, with gilt lettering on spine. Faint decorative red speckling on page edges. Pages in good, clean condition overall. Text clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: