"Digammated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... final ing, which signifies separation, particularity, and individual property, from ingle, a hearth, or one man's place or seat: [Greek: —] oi'xo?, vicus, denoted an aggregation of ingles. The alteration of the c and k of the root into the v was evidently the work of the digammate power, and hence we find the icus and ivus indifferently as finals in Latin. The precise difference of the etymologies is apparent in these phrases:—- The lamb is sportive; that is, has a nature or habit of sporting: ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge |
