"Genitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not happy in his explanation of this word, Porlanda or Porland, which he endeavours to derive from Fara-land; precisely the same with Fris-land from Faras-land, only dropping the genitive s. Porland seems used as a general name of the earldom, perhaps connected with the strange name Pomona, still used for mainland, the largest of the Orkney islands. Frisland the particular Fara islands, or one ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... in this last example, the genitive relation is indicated by the possessive pronoun, as it sometimes was in English, "John, his book;" but the Maya is "his book John," ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... says Kuehner, "have wonderfully exercised the abilities of commentators." The simplest mode of interpretation, he then observes, is to take [Greek: pros] in the sense of versus, "towards," comparing iv. 3. 26; ii. 2. 4; but he inclines, on the whole, to make the genitive [Greek: Hellenon] depend on [Greek: toutous] understood: [Greek: ekpheugei ton Hellenon pros (toutous) hoi etychon, k. t. l.], though he acknowledges that this construction is extremely forced, and that he can nowhere find anything similar to it. Brodaeus suggested [Greek: ...
— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon
... transferred to the sultans of Roum, the Greek princes of Constantinople (Sherefeddin, l. v. c. 54) were confounded with the Christian lords of Gallipoli, Thessalonica, &c. under the title of Tekkur, which is derived by corruption from the genitive tou kuriou, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon
... other classes of words. Every independent word can perform the function of a verb, and every verbal form can in its turn be used as a noun or adjective." [107] And of the Dravidian languages he says: "The genitive of ordinary nouns is in reality an adjective, and the difference between nouns and adjectives is of no great importance ... Many cases are both nouns and verbs. Nouns of agency are very commonly used as verbs." ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... pertaining to sexual intercourse: venereal excess—excess in sexual intercourse; venereal disease—a disease acquired from sexual intercourse with an infected person. The word is derived from Venus (genitive—veneris), the Roman goddess ...
— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson
... 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
... of the word "news," on which you have recently had some notes, is a case in illustration of the importance of this point. I have never had the least doubt that this word is derived immediately from the German. It is, in fact, "das Neue" in the genitive case; the German phrase "Was giebt's Neues?" giving the exact sense of our "What is the news?" This will appear {429} even stronger if we go back to the date of the first use of the word in England. Possibly about the same time, or not much earlier, we find in his same collection of Clara ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 27. Saturday, May 4, 1850 • Various
... at hand to refer to, undertook, good man that he was, proprio Marte to force a meaning into the manifestly corrupted text of the copy before him: and he did it by affixing to [Greek: eudokia] the sign of the genitive case ([Greek: s]). Unhappy effort of misplaced skill! That copy [or those copies] became the immediate progenitor [or progenitors] of a large family,—from which all the Latin copies are descended; whereby it comes to pass that Latin Christendom sings the Hymn 'Gloria ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon
... somewhat lacking in polish, are remarkably faithful and vigorous. But when we find 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 ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... Terminations. But let us ask them, what they think of these Words, God's Word, Man's Wisdom, the Smith's Forge, and innumerable Instances more. For in God's Word, &c. is not the Termination s a plain Indication of a Genitive Case, wherein the Saxon e is omitted? For example, *Godes Word*, *Mannes Wisdom*, *Smi[dh]es Heor[dh]*. Some will say, that were better supplied by his, or hers, as Man his Thought, the Smith his Forge; but this Mistake is justly exploded. Yet if these Gentlemen will not ...
— An Apology For The Study of Northern Antiquities • Elizabeth Elstob
... a bearded man is unlike his former childish self. A few examples will show the likeness and the difference. "The noble queen" would in Anglo-Saxon be seo aeethele cwen; "the noble queen's," ethaere aeethelan cwene. Seo is the nominative feminine singular, ethaere the genitive, of the definite article. The adjective and the noun also change their forms with the varying cases. In its inflections, Anglo-Saxon resembles its sister language, ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... taught with exactness what the king desired,—and that was little enough: French, a certain amount of history, and the necessary accomplishments of a soldier. Against the will of his father (the great King had never surmounted the difficulties of the genitive and dative) he acquired some knowledge of the Latin declensions. To the boy, who was easily led and in the king's presence looked shy and defiant, the women imparted his first interest in French literature. He himself later gave his sister the credit for it, but his governess too was ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... Some of the manuscripts divide the poem into sections, each one of which is called an aventiure, or 'adventure.' 2: M.H.G. lp, modern Leib, meant 'body,' 'person,' 'self.' With a genitive it is often pleonastic and untranslatable. Eines guten Ritters Leib einen guten Ritter. 3: Archaic for Weibern for the sake of the medial rime with bleiben. Now and then a stanza has medial as ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... or at least what appears to the moderns fanciful, arrangement of the cases amongst grammarians, may be dispensed with for the present. The idea, that the nominative is a direct, upright case, and that the genitive declines with the smallest obliquity from it; the dative, accusative, and ablative, falling further and further from the perpendicularity of speech, is a species of metaphysics not very edifying to a child. Into ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth
... to place [Greek: Aioon], whose genitive is [Greek: Aioonos], in the same category with the derivatives from [Greek: oon], the participle present of [Greek: Eimi], whose genitive is [Greek: ontos]; and as, secondly, this derivation places the word out of the range of the collective nouns so declined, which ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 • Various
... peri], with the genitive, "follows verbs meaning to speak or know about a person," but only in the Odyssey. What preposition follows such ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... these patronymics Lane (Mod. Egypt, chaps. iv.) has a strange remark that "Abu Daud i' not the Father of Daud or Abu Ali the Father of Ali, but whose Father is (or was) Daud or Ali." Here, however, he simply confounds Abu father of (followed by a genitive), with Abu-h (for Abu-hu) ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... only non-Melanesian characteristic which appears is the preceding of the substantive by the genitive, but in the vocabularies a ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... the Saxons had, for their substantives, at least three; viz., the nominative, dative, genitive. With the pronouns and adjectives there was a true accusative form; and with a few especial words an ablative or instrumental one. Smidh, a smith; smidhe, to a smith; smidhes, of a smith. Plural, smidhas, smiths; smidhum, to smiths; smidha, ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... now.) So, having the shilling—having i' fact a lot— And pence and halfpence, ever so many o' them, I purchased, as I think I said before, The pebble (lapis, lapidis, di, dem, de— What nouns 'crease short i' the genitive, Fatchops, eh?) O the boy, a bare-legg'd beggarly son of a gun, For one-and-fourpence. Here we are again. Now Law steps in, biwigged, voluminous-jaw'd; Investigates and re-investigates. Was the transaction illegal? Law shakes head. Perpend, sir, all ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... under the caves, Where the shadowy waves Are as green as the forest's [Footnote: The intended place of the apostrophe is not clear.] night:— Outspeeding the shark, And the sword fish dark, Under the Ocean foam, [Footnote: MS. Ocean' foam as if a genitive was meant; but cf. Ocean foam in the Song of Apollo (Midas).] And up through the rifts Of the mountain clifts, They passed ...
— Proserpine and Midas • Mary Shelley
... English a large number of words had in the genitive case singular the ending -es; in Middle English still more words took this ending: for example, in Chaucer, "From every schires ende," "Full worthi was he in his lordes werre [war]," "at his beddes syde," "mannes ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell |
