They have chosen forty-seven signs from the many thousands employed by the Chinese, and they use them phonetically only; that is to say, as true sound-carrying letters.
Such, I am inclined to believe, is the origin of the symbol which, when used to indicate anything else than earth, is used phonetically or ikonomatically.
If not a simple ideogram, this prefix is most probably used in some sense phonetically with reference chiefly to the k sound.
The object of the trip was to restore one Fox text phonetically and to obtain some new texts, in the current syllabic script, on Fox ceremonials, in both of which projects he was successful.
He restored phonetically the material extracted from Petter, with the result that it is now possible to formulate the transforming phonetic shifts with greater nicety.
The Felire na Naomh Nerennach (so spelt, more phonetically than correctly) is an invaluable early "Chronicle of Irish Saints.
It is still a moot point as to whether in narration, Gaelic names should be given as they are, or be anglicised--or Gaelic exclamations to phrases in their original spelling, or more phonetically to an English ear.
Frontenac's secretary spelled phonetically like so many of his contemporaries--a source of embarrassment to historians.
Although the call is phonetically similar, the context is so unlike, that a correspondence with Fletcher's word for chief or king is improbable.
It is possible to explain these differently stated meanings of these phonetically similar phrases as owing to incorrect inductions of meaning under specific circumstances.
It may be that if Hioghe were exactly similar phonetically to Hioh, there would not be a terminal e in Hioghe.
Over and over again in plays using dialect certain speeches are passed over by the author in his final revision which neither phonetically nor in the words and phrases chosen comport with the context.
Today we try not only phonetically to represent the ways in which words are spoken by the people of a particular locality, but by the use of words and phrases heard among such people to make the characterization vivid and convincing.
Phonetically pronounced, they call the Sun Then-ka.
The name of their Redeemer, phonetically rendered, is Kerm-Cher.
The semi-colon between two forms denotes that the two forms are phonetically equivalent, and that the preceding one is directly derived from, and is historically connected with the one following this symbol; for instance, s.
This sequence is not used in the body of the grammar, rather the less phonetically accurate ia, ie, etc.
Collado here and in the Dictionarium uses what appears to be the less phoneticallyaccurate transcription.
The form qq which would be phonetically equivalent to cq is not recorded.
The forms in eô at the foot of the chart represent sequences that are phonetically identical to the forms above them, but which are transcribed differently to reflect morphological considerations; e.
Each term thus acquires five distinct meanings, and in fact represents five different words, which were phonetically distinct dissyllables, or even polysyllables in the primitive language.
Phonetically the two words would be one and the same.
But the first question that has to be answered is, whether this is phonetically possible, and how.
It might be defended phonetically and etymologically, though I cannot think of any analogous passive derivatives of a root ending in s.
The natives, eager or obliged to learn the words so essential to their salvation but so new to their ear, aided their memory by writing phonetically in a rude way the strange words.
Hrothgar is or is notphonetically the exact equivalent of Hroarr].
This Pekko is plainly a personification of the barley; the form corresponding phonetically in Runic Norse would be *beggw- (from which comes Old Norse bygg).
The chee of extreme anxiety is a loud emphatic buzz, phonetically ZZ-ZZ-ZZ-ZZ.
Another sound which is peculiar to this species I think is used as a kind of salutation or expression of friendship, which phonetically is quite unlike the corresponding sound in any other dialect that I have studied.
It is very much the same phonetically as that sound which he utters in case of great and sudden alarm, but uttered with much less energy.
It has been ascertained experimentally that those who have been taught to read and to write a language phonetically become quite as efficient spellers as those not so trained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phonetically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
