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Europe is properly supposed to be a Tyrian or Phoenician word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , * signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the ...
Europe is properly supposed to be a Tyrian or Phoenician word , meaning vespera , the West ; and Asia , a Greek word , * signifying aurora , the East . Names of places and persons can only proceed from the dominant language of the ...
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The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd conjectures , only tempt ...
The satisfactory " etymons " supposed to decide everything , are nowhere more deceptive than in those names . Whilst crude theories , imperfect research - which is generally worse than no research - and absurd conjectures , only tempt ...
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Between the northern slope of the Himalaya and the Caspian Sea , is supposed with much probability to have been the native soil of the Indo - European stock . From that diverging point , like swarms from a hive , went the races ( so ...
Between the northern slope of the Himalaya and the Caspian Sea , is supposed with much probability to have been the native soil of the Indo - European stock . From that diverging point , like swarms from a hive , went the races ( so ...
Side 12
Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but the Gothic ancestors of the present Danes . His principal , if not only , reason for this is , that the Bronze age lasted into the eighth century .
Worsaae cannot bring himself to suppose that they were anything but the Gothic ancestors of the present Danes . His principal , if not only , reason for this is , that the Bronze age lasted into the eighth century .
Side 13
That they should leave unexplored the shores of Denmark , is what we cannot reasonably suppose , seeing that they held possessions in Gaul , Spain , Italy and the Low Countries . In the south we find them in contact with , and a terror ...
That they should leave unexplored the shores of Denmark , is what we cannot reasonably suppose , seeing that they held possessions in Gaul , Spain , Italy and the Low Countries . In the south we find them in contact with , and a terror ...
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Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and Customs |
| Forfatter | Jeremiah Sullivan |
| Udgiver | Whittaker and Company, 1857 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Det bayerske statsbibliotek |
| Digitaliseret | 8. sep 2009 |
| Længde | 171 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |