10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LABIALISM»
Discover the use of
labialism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
labialism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Early Age of Greece
and the Celts of the Alpine regions, with whom also labialism was a characteristic
feature. Thus the Gauls called a, four- wheeled waggon petor-ritum ; but petor
closely resembles the Welsh pedwar, pedair, the Boeotian irerrapes, and the ...
2
Hausa Grammar with Exercises, Readings, and Vocabularies
1 In the Indo-European languages this labialism has resulted in a change of the k
or g into another consonant, - e.g. Sanskrit gaus, Gr. floi's, O.H.G. chuo. In Hausa,
however, this labialism is still in_an initial stage, and the after-sound causes ...
3
A Companion to Latin Studies
But Latin, like Greek, shows sporadic instances of complete labialism, e.g. lupus
instead of lucus (cf. Greek Xvkck). As hirpus, the Samnite and Sabine name for
the wolf, shows labialism, it has naturally been inferred that such forms as lupus ...
4
An Etymology Of Latin And Greek
... than the original one which had thus sufi'ered. Indistinct articulation appears
under the following forms: I. Labialz'sm; II. Dentalz'sm; III. Parasitic Sound; IV.
Aspiratzkm. I. LABIALISM. This is a change from k to 1r and p, or from g to ,B and
b.
3) The Labialism by which at and 1) represent Pr. k, prevailed in Umbrian and
Oscan. U. pctzrrpursus: quadrupedibus ; O. glitgiz'i=quidquid. Hence (from
Opetom, four) come the names Petreius, Pettonjus: and (from O.jmm-t-zs=
quinque) ...
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The Early Age of Greece
But Latin, like Greek, shows sporadic instances of complete labialism, e.g. lupus
instead of lucus (cf. Gk \vko<;, Skr. vrikas). But as hirpus, the Sabine and Samnite
name for the wolf, shows labialism, it has naturally been inferred that such forms
...
Sir William Ridgeway, Andrew S. F. Gow, Donald Struan Robertson, 1931
7
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, ...
The tendency to labialism is, however, less in Irish than in Latin, e.g., Latin
septem, seven, Irish techt ; and perhaps even than in Sanskrit, for Irish drops
initial p, e.g., iasg, fish, Welsh pysg, or changes it into 6, e.g., Welsh pen, Irish ben
.
Thomas Spencer Baynes, 1833
8
Principles of Greek etymology, tr. by A.S. Wilkins and E.B. ...
First we will examine the change of gutturals into labials, which may be aptly
called Labialism. 1) Labialism. One of the earliest observations of comparative
grammar was to the effect that several languages frequently show a p for a h
which is ...
As the labialism which appears in Latin is due to the influence of tribes who had
substituted P for original If, so alsoin Greece the sporadic tendency to labialism
can only have been due to the direct influence of a people who had that phonetic
...
10
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
672 -3) that a certain phase of labialism in Greek was due to the intrusion of a
people from central Europe, who represented original Indo- Germanic q by p, as
in Oscan, TJmbrian, Gaulish, Welsh and Cornish, whilst Sanskr. represents it by k
, ...
Cambridge Philological Society, 1904
