Greg, Robert Philips 1826 1906 (1 results)
Published by London: 1893., Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1893
- Hardcover
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.Alec R. Allenson, Inc.
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. lxxii, [1], 355 p.; 29 cm. Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Vocabularies, for Egyptian, Accadian, Chinese, African and American words; interchangeable letters; Accado-Chinese agreements -- II. Aryan, Semitic, African and American; analogies: Chinese and English verbal, Chinese and American, Basque and Gael…ic, ancient Mexican and Aryan, Aryan and Egyptian; Accadian, Chinese and Egyptian ba and pa sounds; Egyptian ankh words; general words for horse, ass; Greek and Latin accordances, with Chinese and Mongol (Edkins) -- III. Turanian, Ugro-Altaic, East Tartar (Mongol), African and American (Accadian and Egyptian, etc.); analogies for Asiatic, Turanian and Egyptian; Esthonian and American conparisons -- IV. Libyan and Berber, Basque, Caucasian, American and sundry -- V. Indo-Chinese (E. Himalaic), Tibetan (W. Himalaic), aboriginal Chinese, African and sundry -- VI. Dravidian, Malay, Oceanic, Polynesian, Papuan and Australian, African and American -- Appendices i-lvi: comparative tables, etc., for special words and their cognates, i. Polynesian grammar, examples of N. and C. American grammar; ii. Algonkin grammar; iii. (Tinneh ditto), affinities between Othomi and Chinese; iv. plural formations, new and old worlds; v. instances of similar words having similar meanings for North, central and South America; vi. a general list of American words for water; vii. sundry agreements for Aryan and Central America (Hyde Clarke); viii. and liii. American calendar and zodiacal signs [etc., etc.] Near fine royal 8vo olive cloth. School bookplate, o/w unmarked.