Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 sider |
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... and attention of those who listened to them in the belief that there are plenty of students ready to apply sound principles and cautious analysis to a branch of archæology and philology at present in a very backward state.
... and attention of those who listened to them in the belief that there are plenty of students ready to apply sound principles and cautious analysis to a branch of archæology and philology at present in a very backward state.
Side vii
... sound - The significance of stress - Its movement with the qualitative in compounds — In- fluence of railways on pronunciation - Popular and map - makers ' blunders - Exaggeration - Deceptive forms , PAGE 1 LECTURE II . THE LANGUAGES OF ...
... sound - The significance of stress - Its movement with the qualitative in compounds — In- fluence of railways on pronunciation - Popular and map - makers ' blunders - Exaggeration - Deceptive forms , PAGE 1 LECTURE II . THE LANGUAGES OF ...
Side 1
... SOUND - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STRESS - ITS MOVE- MENT WITH THE QUALITATIVE IN COMPOUNDS - INFLUENCE OF RAILWAYS ON PRONUNCIATION - POPULAR AND MAP - MAKERS ' BLUNDERS - EXAGGERATION - DECEPTIVE FORMS . to be en- NQUIRY into the origin and ...
... SOUND - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STRESS - ITS MOVE- MENT WITH THE QUALITATIVE IN COMPOUNDS - INFLUENCE OF RAILWAYS ON PRONUNCIATION - POPULAR AND MAP - MAKERS ' BLUNDERS - EXAGGERATION - DECEPTIVE FORMS . to be en- NQUIRY into the origin and ...
Side 2
... sound- signs to designate a locality : every place - name , in whatever language , is a business - like definition de- rived from some peculiarity or leading feature , as we might say the Green Hill , the White House , the Oak - wood ...
... sound- signs to designate a locality : every place - name , in whatever language , is a business - like definition de- rived from some peculiarity or leading feature , as we might say the Green Hill , the White House , the Oak - wood ...
Side 4
... transferred to writing : it must , therefore , be borne in mind that letters - alphabetical characters -are not visible speech ; that spelling is but the mechanical means of representing vocal sounds by a series of 4 Scottish Land - Names .
... transferred to writing : it must , therefore , be borne in mind that letters - alphabetical characters -are not visible speech ; that spelling is but the mechanical means of representing vocal sounds by a series of 4 Scottish Land - Names .
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Aberdeenshire achadh amhuinn Anglo-Saxon Argyleshire aspiration Author Ayrshire baile barr beinn Blackwood and Sons blár bólstaðr called Celtic Celts century Cheap Edition church cill cloth cnoc coill consonants crag creag croft Crown 8vo dabhach dalr Demy 8vo district druim dubh Dumfriesshire Edinburgh English Engravings farm Fcap field Fife French morocco Gael Gaelic names Galloway genitive Glasgow gleann glen Highlands hill hill-top History Illustrations Ireland Irish island Isle Iverian Kirkcudbright land language Latin Lectures LL.D Loch Manann Maps meaning modern Gaelic mór Nennius Norse names Norsemen OLIPHANT origin Orkney parish Perthshire Pictish Pictish Chronicle Picts plural Poems Portrait Post 8vo prefix probably Professor pronunciation Revised ridge river Ross-shire Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish place-names Second Edition Selkirkshire shire Skene sloping speech Stirlingshire Strathclyde stream suffix syllable Third Edition tiobar tion tír Translated tún vols Welsh Wigtownshire William Blackwood wood word written wudu
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