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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



... erelong to give an account, brings to the story of English verse far more extensive research than had hitherto been bestowed upon it; and that special scholarship which was needed—the Anglo-Saxon language, learned in the new continental school of Rask and Grimm. His examination of our subject merges in a general history of the Language, viewed as a metrical element or material; and hence his exposition, which we rapidly collect seriatim, is plainly different ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various



Words linked to "Rask" :   philologist, philologue



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