Volume 5

The works of Sir William Jones / with the life of the author by Lord Teignmouth.

  • William Jones
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works of Sir William Jones / with the life of the author by Lord Teignmouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man ; ‘fo the Perfians, when they embraced the religion of Mahomet, adopted the characters in which .the Alcoran was written, and incorpo- rated into their language a multitude of Arabick words and phrafes. ° The Perfian verbs that form their impera~ tives, and confequently their aorifts, from ob- folete infinitives, may be diftributed into the. following .claffes: the old infinitives may be found by adding (j)OY eeden to the imperatives, _ and the aorifts by adding to them the perfonal terminations. . I. _ Irregulars that form their imperatives by re- jeGting «Od or Ey Infin. Imper. ~ Aorift. eT Ho draw a Jabre a ‘ca (Os! to fow together mt. ol WOT zo rebuke late et : Emagsl to embrace Oxss! aw gh, Epreadl to cut. Ome! eiasl (yO ysl to |peak tdly Las! eJussl (OULAS! to /prinkle bss! ails] (yO yas to prefs peel eyes ws Me throw o SI : G (y= al down.