Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1929 - Animism |
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... sound - meaning is lost , may be seen in the English word tabor , which we might not recognize as a sound - word at all , did we not notice that it is French tabour , a word which in the form tambour ob- viously belongs to a group of ...
... sound - meaning is lost , may be seen in the English word tabor , which we might not recognize as a sound - word at all , did we not notice that it is French tabour , a word which in the form tambour ob- viously belongs to a group of ...
Page 211
... sound tubdjeda , that is , ' to say tub . ' In the same language , tuma is ' to beat , ' whence tumtu , ' a workman , especially one who beats , a smith . ' With the aid of another imitative word , bufa ' to blow , ' the Gallas can ...
... sound tubdjeda , that is , ' to say tub . ' In the same language , tuma is ' to beat , ' whence tumtu , ' a workman , especially one who beats , a smith . ' With the aid of another imitative word , bufa ' to blow , ' the Gallas can ...
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... sound , of force , of duration , of size , an imitative group more or less connected with the last will show - crick , creak , crack , crash , crush , crunch , craunch , scrunch , scraunch . It does not at all follow that because a word ...
... sound , of force , of duration , of size , an imitative group more or less connected with the last will show - crick , creak , crack , crash , crush , crunch , craunch , scrunch , scraunch . It does not at all follow that because a word ...
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