Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... imitative sounds have to conform , thus becoming conventionalized into articulate words with further loss of imitative accuracy . No class of words have a more perfect imitative origin than those which simply profess to be vocal ...
... imitative sounds have to conform , thus becoming conventionalized into articulate words with further loss of imitative accuracy . No class of words have a more perfect imitative origin than those which simply profess to be vocal ...
Page 205
... imitative nature more plainly than kshu ' to sneeze ; ' the following analogous forms are from South America : -Chilian , echiun ; Quichua , achhini ; and from various languages of Brazilian tribes , techa - ai , haitschu , atchian ...
... imitative nature more plainly than kshu ' to sneeze ; ' the following analogous forms are from South America : -Chilian , echiun ; Quichua , achhini ; and from various languages of Brazilian tribes , techa - ai , haitschu , atchian ...
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... imitative and symbolic changes it must be , like this , directly imitative in its origin . What , for instance , could sound more imitative than the name of that old - fashioned cannon for throwing grape - shot , the patterero ? Yet the ...
... imitative and symbolic changes it must be , like this , directly imitative in its origin . What , for instance , could sound more imitative than the name of that old - fashioned cannon for throwing grape - shot , the patterero ? Yet the ...
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