I consider that it is securely based, and that we may safely say that in proper names, at least, a kind of picture writing was used which was not phonetic.
To this the reply is that polytheism does not wait thus deferentially on the evolution of proper names.
When he is there he may receive a name which has lost all meaning, as proper names at the present day have generally done; or one which has a meaning.
There was a period in the evolution of the human race when men neither had proper names of their own nor knew their fellows by proper names; and yet they doubted not their personality.
We think that we are distinctly warranted by the analogy of the language to treat the books of the Old and New Testaments as proper names, and prefix a to them; as in the following examples, kei a Kenehi, kei a Roma.
Milton's use of proper names is a measure of his poetic genius.
As the reading from E shows, this is a possessive of a type usually confined to proper names.
That the differences are due to the scribes is indicated by their occurrence even in proper names where E is, on the whole, much more accurate than C.
Im appears as an element in proper names, the reading Addu is vouched for, and this form has been justly brought into connection with a very famous solar deity of Syria,--Hadad.
The most conspicuous example of this is afforded by proper names of persons, which conceivably enough must have very different psychic values for different people.
It is in regard to the writing of proper names, especially in the Old Testament.
Which is the safer to follow on such points as the pronunciation of proper names--the Hebrew or the Greek?
Whether it occur in Hebrew at all is still a matter of controversy; Ewald, § 27, denies that it occurs in proper names also.
This usus loquendi, according to the supposition formerly very current, occurs in Hebrew very frequently, especially in proper names, e.
Business Documents of Murashû Sons,” and the list of proper names attached to Professor Hilprecht’s edition sufficiently illustrates the point.
He gave a useful glossary, but no list of proper names.
Proper names used to be printed in italics; and generally, the use of italics was much greater than at present.
I might fill a page with other instances, but I shall only mention another similar corruption in proper names, where after dropping the Mac the c is retained, in cases where the patronymic begins with a vowel.
The prefixed s is the sign of the reiterative form, and when joined to proper names is regarded as a token of nobility,--like the French de, or the German von.
Proper names, as is well known, when they become mere appellatives, discharged of significance, are much more likely to vary than the words of ordinary speech.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proper names" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
