A System Of Greek Prosody And Metre For The Use Of Schools And Colleges Together With The Choral S

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... who should doubt whether the roots just mentioned be really so or not, would doubt, in like manner, whether the syllables cad in cmdo, car in caro, cap in capio, mar in mare, Kvx in KvXiu, elX in elXeu, be radicals, and would end by withholding his assent from the clearest and most positive principles.2 V. A similar error is sometimes committed even by those who investigate the Sanscrit language. Thus, in many of the elementary works published by them, we find such roots as bri or bhri, djna, kram, grip, stou, tri, trip, trou, &c. Now these are, in fact, only lengthened forms, including a contracted root, or one that has lost its vowel. The root of bri is bar, ber, &c., and the contraction has given bri. This radical may be traced in the Greek (pcp-u, the Latin fer-o, and the English " to bear." The root of djna is ken or ghen, the consonant g being pronounced like dj, as in many English words; and this root may be traced in the Greek yiv-uoku and in the English ken. The root of kram is kar, lengthened into karam, and then contracted into kram. The root of srip is sar, ser, &c, preserved in the Latin serp-o, the Greek fpir-w, and the Latin rep-o, 1. Mithridates, vol. i., p. 301, seq. 2. Mirian, p. 10. Compare Klaproth sur let Ratines dee Langues Semitiquet, appended to Merian's work. belonging to the same source. The root of stou is sat, sot, sout, &c., whence the Persian soutou or south-ou, and the Latin suad-eo. And so, in like manner, of the rest.1 in. OF ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT. I. The numerous points of resemblance that exist between different languages would be rendered still more apparent and striking, were we not often arrested in our inquiries by the change of consonants belonging to the same series, ...