 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1880 - 470 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti, "sun;" nntnay, "love;" and vcypiil, "great"—resemble... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1880 - 470 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti, "sun;" inutiay, "love;" and veypul, "great"—resemble... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1880 - 468 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti, "sun;" Mutiay, "love;" and veypul, "great"—resemble... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1880 - 496 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Q uichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—lull, “sun;” munay, “love ;“ and veypul,... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1883 - 486 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti, "sun;" tnunay, "love;" and veypul, "great"—resemble... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1890 - 486 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...belong to languages which have nothing in common. In the Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti, "sun;" munay, "love;" and veypul, "great"—resemble... | |
 | Archibald Henry Sayce - Comparative linguistics - 1900 - 494 pages
...languages we have first to compare their grammars, not their vocabularies. The reason of this is obvious. It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that...each other in both sound and sense, and yet belong ta languages which have nothing in common. In the' Quichua, or dialect of the Incas, three words—inti,... | |
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It is in the sentence, not in the isolated word, that languages agree or differ, and grammar deals with the relations that the several parts of the sentence bear to one another. Single words may accidentally resemble each other in both sound and sense,... 