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Rask   /ræsk/   Listen
Rask

noun
1.
Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).  Synonym: Rasmus Christian Rask.





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"Rask" Quotes from Famous Books



... a decisive answer from Emmanuel Rask, one of the most gifted minds in the new school of philology, who had the honor of being a precursor of both Grimm and Burnouf. He showed that the list of the Jehangiri referred to an epoch later than that to which Zend must have belonged, ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... RASK, RASMUS CHRISTIAN, Danish philologist, born near Odense; studied first the primitive languages of the North, chiefly Icelandic, and then those of the East, and published the results of his researches both by his writings and as professor of Oriental Languages ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Rask" :   philologist, Rasmus Christian Rask, philologue


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