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11 words match “PHILOLOGIST”

PHILOLOGIST n.
One versed in philology.
SYPHILOLOGIST n.
One skilled in syphilology.
CHASE v.
aking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.
GLOTTOLOGIST n.
A linguist; a philologist.
GRAMMARIAN n.
One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
LAW n.
ee under Ecclesiastical. -- Grimm's law (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants, so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the Teutonic languages.…
NEOGRAMMARIAN n.
One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.
PHILOLOGER n.
A philologist. Burton.
PHILOLOGIAN n.
A philologist. [R.]
PHILOLOGUE n.
A philologist. [R.] Carlyle.
VERNER'S LAW n.
A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the prec…