THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE FOUNDED ON LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION IN 1861 AND 1863

accent Agni alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon Aryan languages aspirates assibilating Asvins Barnacle Barnacle goose breath bright called consonantal consonants corruption Curtius Dawn deity derived dialects distinct divine doubt earth English etymology explained expressed father French German glottis gods Gothic Grammar Grammatik Greek Grimm Grimm's Law guage guttural heaven hence Homer horse hymn idea Indra instance Italian Kafir Kuhn's Zeitschrift labial labialised Latin letters likewise meaning meant originally metaphor mind modern mother mythology nature never noun Old High-German Old Norse palate participle passage philosophers phonetic poets pronounced pronunciation Rigveda Romans root Sanskrit Saramâ Saranyû Savitar Saxon scholars Science of Language sense sonant sound speak speech spiritus asper spoken supposed surd syllable tenuis Teutonic things thought tongue traced twins Varuna Veda verb vibrations Vivasvat voice vowels words Yama Zeus δὲ καὶ τῶν