"Genitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him in his translation of the eighteenth ode of the Second Book rendering salis avarus by de sal avariento—the second person singular of the present indicative of the verb salire being mistaken for the genitive of the substantive sal[271]—we may perhaps conclude that a boyish exercise has ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... not to have liked a too frequent repetition of this letter, for it is omitted often when a following syllable contains it; as pejero for perjero; and grammarians have noticed that the genitive plural of the future participle is of rare occurrence. In the colloquial and provincial Latin, r is often dulled into l. Thus on one of the walls at Pompeii a part of the first line of the ...
— Latin Pronunciation - A Short Exposition of the Roman Method • Harry Thurston Peck
... names in the north during the surname period. In Hankin and Hancock this Han would naturally coalesce with the Flemish Hanke. This would also explain the names Hand for Rand, and Hands, Hance for Rands, Rance. Mobbs is the same as Mabbs (cf. Moggy for Maggy), and Mabbs is the genitive of Mab, i.e. Mabel, for Amabel. We have the diminutive in Mappin and the patronymic in Mapleson. [Footnote: Maple and Mapple, generally tree names (Chapter XII), are in some cases for Mabel. Maplethorpe is from Mablethorpe (Line.), thorp of Madalbert (Maethelbeorht).] ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley
... whole passage has a grammatical double entendre whose application is palpable. Harf al-Jarra particle governing the noun in the genitive or a mode of ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... phonetic changes as the Cornish, we actually find kleuz and kloz for tomb or inclosure. (See Le Gonidec, "Dict. Breton-Francais," s. v.) The en might either be the Cornish preposition yn, or it may have been intended for the article in the genitive, an. The old rock in the tomb, i.e. in tumba, or the old rock of the tomb, Cornish carag goz an cloz, would be intelligible and natural renderings of the ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller |
