The corresponding Southern verbal inflexion -eth never occurs; while the Midland -en is only occasionally met with in the third person plural present, and has been introduced by a later copyist.
It suggests caution in the comparison of vocabularies; since, by mistaking an inflexion or an affix for a part of the root, we may overlook really existing similarities.
On the other hand, two or more such languages agree in the negative fact of having a small and scanty vocabulary, and an inflexional system equally limited; whilst, again, the scantiness of inflexion may arise from one of two causes.
That an oblique form of the pronoun should appear in the personal inflexion of verbs is no more than what the researches of the late Mr. Garnett, with which we are all so familiar, have taught us to expect.
Müller, in his Dorians, points out the inflexion of the Armenian verb-substantive.
The words themselves have neither form nor inflexion which indicates it.
It is but a small page out of their vocabulary, but it may, perhaps, serve to draw attention to the great powers of modulation and inflexion which these birds possess.
As far as we have been able to see at present, the inflexion presents itself as something added on to the significant word to give it a varied meaning.
The girl's inflexion was droll; it made him change colour.
Mrs. Rooth asked with an inflexion that called back to him comically--the source of the sound was so different--the very vibrations he had heard the day before from Lady Agnes.
All I can say is that I listened to her conscientiously, and I didn't perceive in what she did a single nuance, a single inflexion or intention.
Miss Kezia said, with a strong inflexion of sarcasm in her tone.
A good instance of the characteristic double negative of Kachari, or, rather, of the fact that the inflexion khuise is only used with the negative verb.
Similarly -au is the inflexionmarking the locative case.
These terminations are derived in part from the inflexion of the verb to be, and from certain prepositions, which are added at the ends of words, and which, according to the genius of the American idioms, are incorporated with them.
They are devoid of that rapid movement, that interior life, to which the inflexion of the root is favourable, and which impart such charms to works of imagination.
ROOTS Egyptian roots consist of consonants and semi-consonants only, the inflexion being effected by internal vowel-change and the addition of consonants or vowels at the beginning or end.
Yet it was humiliating to be treated almost as a child, and I knew from the inflexion of his voice that he spoke to me then as one would speak to a school-lad who had played truant.
He asked the question with such a gentle inflexion of the voice that I felt a softer chord was touched, and in response I shook hands with him.
On the last words, there was certainly an inflexion of sarcasm.
Perhaps there was the faintest sarcastic inflexion in the first few words of her reply, but it needed a sharper ear to detect it than either her husband or daughter owned.
The want of inflexion simplifies their syntax equally with that of the substantives.
The change, in both languages, is a change from one kind of inflexion to another.
As for the inflexion -n, it only occurs in slon and shon, and of this very word the plural in n is to be met with even in Northern writers.
And by an ingenious code system which depended upon a mere vocal inflexion of certain common words she could reveal her identity, no matter what her disguise, to those who were in her secret.
Charetier raised his eyebrows when he caught the slight inflexion that instantly revealed to him Yvette's identity.
Peter spoke quietly, but there was an inflexion in his singularly clear voice, which had more command in it than a much louder tone in others.
The Achæan name, again, attains with Homer to a greater variety of use and inflexion than the Danaan or Argeian names.
The inflexion of the present is the same in both classes.
But with Accius (see below) begins a third stage, in which the Greek inflexionis frequently preserved, e.
That the force of the inflexion was lost is shown by the early wrong analysis no skynnes, al skynnes, &c.
Logically the genitive inflexion should be added to both of two substantives in apposition, as in OE.
The genitive inflexion is confined to the noun immediately preceding mersy, while the two following nouns, which are logically genitives with exactly the same construction as Crystes, remain uninflected.
Unaccented final -e is treated as in Chaucer, having its full value in the verse when it represents an inflexion or final vowel in Old English or Old French, e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflexion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
