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De Saussure

noun

Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913). Synonyms: Ferdinand de Saussure, Saussure.

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... which it was impossible to look at with the naked eye or through a strong lens, and doubt for a moment that they had almost all undergone much attrition. I speak thus after having examined small water-worn pebbles, formed from Roman bricks, which M. Henri de Saussure had the kindness to send me, and which he had extracted from sand and gravel beds, deposited on the shores of the Lake of Geneva, at a former period when the water stood at about two metres above its present level. The smallest of these water-worn pebbles of brick from Geneva resembled closely many ...

— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin

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Words linked to "De Saussure" : linguist, linguistic scientist