Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April, & May, 1863. Second series / by Max Müller.

  • Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900.
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1864
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Credit: Lectures on the science of language : delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February, March, April, & May, 1863. Second series / by Max Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TOO words had originally a material meaning, 340 Tooth, the word in the various Aryan dialects, 261 Tour sans venin, la, modern mytho- logy respecting, 368 Trachea, office of the, 111 Transliteration, on, 153 Tree, the word, in other Aryan dia- lects, 219 Trevelyan, Sir Charles, his exertions in the Anglo-Indian alphabet, 156 Tribulation, origin of the word, 342 Trills, the letters called, 136 the sounds of, how produced, 137 Triones, probable meaning of, 365 True, origin of the word, 343 Trump, trump card, origin of the terms, 270 Truth, origin of the word, 343 Tu, the Sanskrit root, in Greek, Gothic, Latin, and German, 210 211 Tuesday, origin of the word, 456 Tuisco, the German god, connected by Grimm with the Anglo-Saxon Tiw, 456 Turkish language, number of con- sonants in the, 166 Two, the word, in other Aryan dia- lects, 218 Tyr, the German sun-god, 379 ■ worshipped as the chief deity by the Germans, 456 names of places and things in England containing the name of Tyr, 456 T] KUHLONIPA, the Kafir custom U called, 37 its effect on the Kafir language, — Mr. Appleyard’s work on the Kafir language, 37 note Umbrian language, Prof. F.W. New- man’s essay on the, 3, 4 note Universal language, of Leibniz and Bishop Wilkins, 45-62 Uranos, his type, the Vedic god Va- runa, 431 Urvocal vowel, the, 124 Ushasi, Urvast, Ahand, Saranyu, the \edic god Dawn, meaning of the name, 373, 411 — myth of, 468 — compared to a horse, 485 VVOIt Ythe sound of, how produced, 134 > Van,in Armenia, rock inscrip- tions at, 4 Varuna, a Vedic deity, meaning of the name, 411 — the prototype of the Greek Ura- nos, 431 \ayu or Vata, a Vedic god, meaning of the name, 411 Veda, the Dawn of the, 462 — correlative deities, 486 — the Asvins, 489 Vejovis, an old Italian divinity, 452 Velum pendulum, its agency in sound 124 ’ — Prof. Czermak’s experiments on the, 124 Vid, the root, 297 I oler, to steal, derivation of the word 289 ’ Voltaire, his definition of etymology, 23S Vowels, what they are made of, 116 positions of the organs of speech in pronouncing the different vowels, 119, et seg. — the urvocal vowel, 122 — nasal vowels, 125 Vrishakapayi, the Vedic goddess, 492 5 and W, the sounds of, how pro- duced, 135 Wallachian, peculiarities of modern 182 Walnut, derivation of the word, 367 Walsch, original meaning of the German word, 367 Weird sisters, origin of the term, 562 What, the word, in other Aryan dia- lects, 220 Wheat, the Aryan names for, 65, 66 Whittington and his cat, origin of the story, 552 Who, the word, in other Aryan lan- guages, 220 Wilkins, Bishop, his scheme for a uni- versal language, analysed, 47-62 Window, origin of the word, 285 Woden, remarks of the early Christian missionaries on the god, 398 Women, influence of, over language, 37, 38 — the languages of the Caribe men and women, 39 Words, modern abuse of, 526 — hollow words, 527 — vague words, 528