 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...grammatical analysis, are of two kinds, namely, Roots predicative and Roots demonstrative. We call root or radical, whatever, in the words of any language...be reduced to a simpler or more original form. It may be well to illustrate this by a few examples. But, instead of taking a number of words in Sanskrit,... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...word ; as clb, the root of club, modified to cbnp, in clump. Max Miiller,1 however, says : we call root or radical, whatever, in the words of any language...cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form. Roots are either predicative or demonstrative. They are monosyllabic, and always contain a vowel. In... | |
 | Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...a word ; as clb, the root of club, modified to clmp, in clump. Max Miiller,1 however, says: we call root or radical, whatever, in the words of any language...cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form. Roots are either predicative or demonstrative. They are monosyllabic, and always contain a vowel. In... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...a word ; as clb, the root of club, modified to clmp, in clump. Max Miiller,1 however, says: we call root or radical, whatever, in the words of any language or family of languiges, cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form. Roots are either predicative or demonstrative.... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1865 - 634 pages
...It was for that reason that I gave a negative rather than a positive definition of roots, stating l that, for my own immediate purposes, I called root...true, that, from one point of view, a root may be considered as a mere abstraction. A root is a cause, and every cause, in the logical acceptation of... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...would make is, that proper names are not roots. A root or radical is defined by Max Miiller to be, " whatever, in the words of any language or family of...cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form."* By another learned philologist it is called "a primary sound, conveying some simple idea, which appears... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...would make is, that proper names are not roots. A root or radical is defined by Max Miiller to be, "whatever, in the words of any language or family...cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form."* By another learned philologist it is called "a primary sound, conveying some simple idea, which appears... | |
 | William Hugh Ferrar - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1869 - 362 pages
...ordinary signification as representing that portion of the * Max Miiller (Lectures, &c., 11., p. 81) calls "root or radical whatever, in the words of any language...family of languages, cannot be reduced to a simpler or a more original form." The Indian Grammarians called a root dhatu from dha (to nourish); dhdtu means... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1869 - 430 pages
...namely, Roots predicative and Hoots demonstrative. We call root or radical, whatever, in the words t€ any language or family of languages, cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form. It may be well to illustrate this by a few examples. But, instead of taking a number of words in Sanskrit,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 pages
...attempted to divide roots like the Sk. c/ti, to collect, or the Chinese tchi, many, into tch and f, we should find that we had left the precincts of language,...true, that, from one point of view, a root may be considered as a mere abstraction. A root is a cause, and every cause, in the logical acceptation of... | |
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I called root or radical whatever, in the words of any language or family of languages, cannot be reduced to a simpler or more original form. It has been pointed out, however, with great logical acuteness, that, if this definition were true, roots would... 
