Definition of Rasmus Christian Rask

1. Noun. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).

Exact synonyms: Rask
Generic synonyms: Philologist, Philologue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rasmus Christian Rask

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Rarotongan
Rarotongans
Ras Algethi
Ras Tafari
Ras Tafari Makonnen
Rascolnik
Rascolniks
Rashomon effect
Rasht
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Rask
Raskolnik
Raskolnikov
Raskolniks
Rasmus Christian Rask (current term)
Rasmussen
Rasmussen's aneurysm
Rasputin
Rasputinesque
Rasta
Rastafari
Rastafarian
Rastafarianism
Rastafarians
Rastaman
Rastamen
Rastas
Rastelli's operation
Rastus

Literary usage of Rasmus Christian Rask

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"The first of these was a Dane by birth, Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832). He was distinguished as a comparative philologist in the Indo-European languages ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) was one of the most original and gifted linguists of his age. His grammars of Old Frisian, Icelandic, and Anglo-Saxon were ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) is one of the greatest philologists of the present century. He also wrote »n the antiquities of Iceland and on the age and ..."

4. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1874)
"In 1826, Rasmus Christian Rask, of Copenhagen, by a more thorough knowledge of the Zend, was enabled to add two letters to ..."

5. Islandica by Cornell University Libraries (1919)
"A complete change was finally brought about by a young Dane, Rasmus Christian Rask, who while a pupil in the Odense Cathedral School had become interested ..."

6. Islandica by Cornell University Libraries (1918)
"*A complete change was finally brought about by a young Dane, Rasmus Christian Rask, who while a pupil in the Odense Cathedral School had become interested ..."

7. Language and Languages: Being "Chapters on Language" and "Families of Speech" by Frederic William Farrar (1878)
"Rasmus Christian Rask, a young Dane, in his zeal to understand something of this branch of philology, made himself master of no less than twenty-five ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) was one of the most original and gifted linguists of his age. His grammars of Old Frisian, Icelandic, and Anglo-Saxon were ..."

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