![]() ![]() ![]() What man of culture who has learned languages such as the Greek, Latin, or French has not at times wondered that objects which have no possible connection with the natural gender of animals appear constantly in the language as male or female? In German, for example, it is der fuss, but die hand der geist, but die seele in Latin, hīc hortus, hīc animus, hīc amor, but haec planta, haec anima, haec felicitas in Greek, ὁ πλοῦτος, ὁ οἶκος, but ἡ πενία, ἡ οἰκία.Now that mainstream Monospace Typefaces have support for ligatures-typefaces such as Pragmata Pro, Hasklig, & Fira Code-it now seems worthwhile to add Ligature support to iTerm2 when previously that probably couldn’t be justiable. This question is of interest to others besides philologists. I refer to the problem, how the Indo-European people came to assign gender to nouns, to distinguish between masculine, feminine, and neuter. On the basis of this principle we look to-day at a much-discussed problem of Indo-European philology with views very different from the views held by the founders of Comparative Philology and their immediate successors. The factors that produced changes in human speech five thousand or ten thousand years ago cannot have been essentially different from those which are now operating to transform living languages. In explaining the prehistoric phenomena of language we must assume no other factors than those which we are able to observe and estimate in the historical period of language development. 00B0 DEGREE SIGN So 0 ET N Ġ0B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN Sm 0 ET N PLUS-OR-MINUS SIGN Ġ0B2 SUPERSCRIPT TWO No 0 EN 0032 2 2 N SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO Ġ0B3 SUPERSCRIPT THREE No 0 EN 0033 3 3 N SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT THREE Ġ0B4 ACUTE ACCENT Sk 0 ON 0020 0301 N SPACING ACUTE Ġ0B5 MICRO SIGN Ll 0 L 03BC N 039C 039CĠ0B6 PILCROW SIGN Po 0 ON N PARAGRAPH SIGN Ġ0B7 MIDDLE DOT Po 0 ON N Ġ0B8 CEDILLA Sk 0 ON 0020 0327 N SPACING CEDILLA Ġ0B9 SUPERSCRIPT ONE No 0 EN 0031 1 1 N SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE Ġ0BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR Lo 0 L 006F N Ġ0BB RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK Pf 0 ON Y RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET Ġ0BC VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER No 0 ON 0031 2044 0034 1/4 N FRACTION ONE QUARTER Ġ0BD VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF No 0 ON 0031 2044 0032 1/2 N FRACTION ONE HALF Ġ0BE VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS No 0 ON 0033 2044 0034 3/4 N FRACTION THREE QUARTERS Ġ0BF INVERTED QUESTION MARK Po 0 ON N Ġ0C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE Lu 0 L 0041 0300 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A GRAVE 00E0 Ġ0C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE Lu 0 L 0041 0301 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A ACUTE 00E1 Ġ0C2 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX Lu 0 L 0041 0302 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A CIRCUMFLEX 00E2 Ġ0C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE Lu 0 L 0041 0303 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A TILDE 00E3 Ġ0C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS Lu 0 L 0041 0308 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A DIAERESIS 00E4 Ġ0C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE Lu 0 L 0041 030A N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A RING 00E5 Ġ0C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE Lu 0 L N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A E 00E6 Ġ0C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA Lu 0 L 0043 0327 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C CEDILLA 00E7 Ġ0C8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE Lu 0 L 0045 0300 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E GRAVE 00E8 Ġ0C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE Lu 0 L 0045 0301 N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E ACUTE 00E9 ĪMONG the many valuable contributions of William Dwight Whitney to linguistic science is one especially important and fundamental principle. ![]()
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