10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIMINUTIVAL»
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1
Transactions of the Philological Society: 1862/63
106: 'It can hardly be proved that any language either ancient or modern is in the
habit of attaching more than one diminutival appendage at a time to its radical or
quasi-radical vocables.' So far from acceding to this assertion, I would much ...
Philological Society (London),
1862
2
The philology of the English tongue
The generality of the usage almost kills the diminutival effect. Downwards from
the Alps towards the Northern Sea, the l wanes as the k waxes. In Swabia it
becomes -le; in Franconia there is a meeting and a curious junction of the l and k
forms, ...
3
Language: its origin and development
tum, salirtum, though in itself originally of diminutival power, □was employed as
a collective. The latter idea is closely connected with that of abstraction, which
embraces all the particular cases. A tailor, for example, produces a piece of cloth,
...
4
Proceedings - Philological Society, London
-el, the diminutival suffix, and its representatives in verbs, '55, 6 ; no true English
diminutives in : all borrowed, '57, 107, 108. -el (fe), Eng. diminutival suffix, '62-3,
225 ; -el, S. Genu., diminutival suffix, 226. Elements of language ending in n and
...
5
Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanie ...
The usual suffix is -culo-, i. e. -qo- + -lo- , the second of which is itself diminutival (
§ 76 p. 205 f.). This extension of the suffix dates from proethnic Italic, and in many
words was no doubt intended to revive the diminutival force which at the time ...
6
Transactions of the Philological Society
-el, the diminutival suffix, and its representatives in verbs, '55, 6 ; no true English
diminutives in : all borrowed, '57, 107, 108. -el (le), Eng. diminutival suffix, '62-3,
225 ; -el, S. Germ., diminutival suffix, 226. Elements of language ending in « and
...
Philological Society (Great Britain), Philological Society (Great Britain).,
1884
7
proceedings of the philological society for 1852 and 1853
From the Latin amygdala (G. ApbySaXn, almond ; root ajivaaw, to prick, scarify;
from the little holes in its shell), the Provencal amandola has been formed by an
assimilation to the diminutival form, very natural in a country, and at an epoch, ...
8
A comparative grammar of the Indo-Germanic languages: a ...
The usual suffix is -ado-, i. e. -qo- + -lo- , the second of which is itself diminutival (
§ 76 p. 205 f.). This extension of the suffix dates from proethnic Italic, and in many
words was no doubt intended to revive the diminutival force which at the time ...
9
Proceedings of the Philological Society
The modern French ange stands to the old form ang-el in the same relation that
the words dom, dame, femme, page, lame, &c. do to dam-inns, fwm-ina, pay-ina,
lam-ina, &c. The so-called diminutival terminations -inns, -ina, instinctively ...
Philological Society (London),
1854
10
Transactions of the Philological Society 1857
Latham's assertion, which lays down that let is to be regarded, not only as a
compound, but as a compound of two diminutival terminations. In obedience to
this dictum, I will investigate the process by which such words as streamlet,
ringlet, ...