Last essays. First series, Essays on language, folklore, and other subjects / by the Right Hon. Professor F. Max Müller.

  • Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
1901
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    Whatever ]an«eag%we take, and gift, te ’ , , jn to wit in witness, formal elements are er and t. in.to , and in wittingly, we easily see the Pemanent ^ foj element, wit, used in t e se“Je d These lowed by such formal elements as and it material elements are generally called 10 ■ “ to reason that in modern languages t is otten u-ffienlTto discover the true roots. There have very difficult to cuscoye rder to dis. been so many phone ic c ang > ot we must cover the The always go back t _ ^ in English in such same root, wit ior instance, exists ^ ^ ^ words also as f‘lsk'‘J- w from Rome and Greece that this word cam nresence of the root wit would he able to discover the Pysf “ 0 we know . i ■ j. o, Tn flrpek we know it, Decaux d before t is changed to s, thus givi of vid-tar, the Sanskrit vet-tar. Now this is one thing which the Science arhieved It has discovered the material gUage has achieve . Indo.Eur0pean languages. «TetLX achtevlmit belongs J the nineteenth But while this ae to the fifth century b. 0. century w! ’ the earliest grammarians asked m India, In 1 sked kut lately, namely, the question, which w ' found, as we have what is language or found, that it conslS^n°/0f formal elements, roots, and of a certa . „ This was a called suffixes, prefixes, and infixes.