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Our Feathered Friends [PDF]

, 1985
This is a test of your ability to perceive wholes within larger wholes - to recognize linguistic structures embedded within greater linguistic structures.
Borgmann, Dmitri A.
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*Kerh2- and *ker- Roots in Ancient Celtic Onomastics Against the Indo-European Background

Вопросы ономастики
It is well known that the root *ker- ‘upper (body) part, horn’ and its secondary variant *kerh2- ‘head’ have enjoyed high productivity in all Indo-European languages, at least in the field of common names which was thoroughly surveyed in the past century
Marcos Medrano Duque
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Missing Words [PDF]

, 1970
If we wish to refer to the quantity midway between the numbers one and two, we say ONE AND A HALF. Elementary as the concept is, it has taken us four words to express it.
Borgmann, Dmitri A.
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The Turkmen people’s traditions associated with the golden eagle

Историческая этнология
The article takes up the issue of the system of relationships between man and nature. The author turns to the analysis of Turkmen folk traditions that engage with the fauna and birds of prey.
Toyly B. Hommyyev
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Way/Words: Etymological Deviance [PDF]

, 1976
The word etymology, taken from the Greek words etumos, meaning true, and logia, meaning one who speaks -- the two words together referring to the study of the true sense of a word ...
Welch, Dennis M.
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Purgailis – putns, augs vai pārpratums?

Baltistica, 2012
Purgailis – A BIRD, A PLANT OR A MISUNDERSTANDING?SummaryPurgailis is a quite common Latvian surname, Purgaiļi is a frequently used place-name (mostly a name of a farmstead). The names are widely associated with Latv. purvs ‘a marsh’ and gailis ‘a cock’,
Ojārs Bušs, Renāte Siliņa-Piņķe
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Temiar Bird Names - three lists

, 2022
The Temiars carry intrinsic knowledge of tropical montane birds and there are many species which find pertinent place in their beliefs and daily existence, deep in the forest of the Malayan Peninsula. I give three lists of bird names in Temiar: 1. Revised list, first published by Lim et al, Malayan Nature Journal, 2017. 2.
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Українське шули(я)к: трансформація семантики лексичного архаїзму

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej
The Ukrainian shulу(a)k: Transformation of the Semantics of a Lexical Archaism This article explores the semantic field of the lexeme shulу(a)k, which in Ukrainian dialects is known with the meanings ‘bird of prey from the hawk family’, ‘ceremonial ...
Інна [Inna] Гороф’янюк [Horofianiuk]
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Cake Walk [PDF]

, 2008
Image of tin and accompanying text about the Cake walk, a traditional dance historically attributed to African Americans in the 19th ...
Green, John
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“TO BE HIS AQUILINE DOVE”: BIRD IMAGES IN M. TSVETAEVA’S BOOK OF POEMS “REMESLO”

Филологический класс, 2019
The article considers the semantics and functions of bird images and ornithological motifs in M. Tsvetaeva’s book of poems “Remeslo” (Handicraft).
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