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Excerpt from On the Formation of English Words by Means of Ablaut: A Grammatical Essay
The category of words, therefore, in which, already a priori, we may expect to meet with Ablaut, are those expressive of sound, which, only from the occurrence of Ablaut, may be supposed to belong to the oldest elements of language. That, in fact, they are so, is proved by the history of language.
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