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Les problèmes méthodologiques de l’étymologie d’origine gauloise en français [PDF]
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2014 It is a well-known fact that the etymology of the French lexicon is mostly Latin. But this apparently obvious consideration hides a signifi cant amount of unsure, if not biased, etymologies.
Gilles Quentel
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The Vernal Pool, 2019 Why should I bother--the words, lying ona blanket of still snowlike tree ...
Gutierrez, Wendolin
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Märkusi talunimede vanusest Audru näitel
Keel ja Kirjandus, 2023 The article looks at Estonian farm names, using examples from Audru Parish. Farm names are considered younger than village names, although historians believe that the farm is older than the village as a settlement unit.
Marja Kallasmaa
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THE INTENSIVE CONTROVERSY ON CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY: REFUTATION OF THE LIQUID MEDIAL FOR DIVISION-2 IN OLD CHINESE [PDF]
Trames, 2021 The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive controversy by the Sino-linguistsâ side and the descriptivistsâ side, the ...
Jingyi Gao
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PIE *peh2ur ’fire’. Two Slavic etymologies
Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2023 This study investigates two traditional Proto-Slavic etyma. (1.a) PS *netopyŕĭ, *netŭpyŕĭ ‘bat’. The former has widespread descendants in East and West Slavic and Western South Slavic; the latter, attested in Middle Russian, has no known modern reflexes.
Henning Andersen
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Prasamodijskaja leksika material'noj kul'tury [Lexicon of Samoyed Material Culture]; pp. 44-53 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 The article addresses the lexicon specific to Proto-Samoyed material culture, and its origin. In addition to the analysis of the available etymologies some new ones are also suggested.
A. V. Dybo, J. V. Normanskaja
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’Sister’, ’Daughter’ and ’Brother’ — Etymological Discussion of a Few Borrowed Uralic Kinship Terms [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 In this article, three Indo-European loan etymologies for Uralic kinship terms meaning âsisterâ, âdaughterâ and âbrotherâ are discussed and a thorough etymological analysis of the words is given based on the latest research.
Niklas Metsäranta
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On etymology of Finnic term for 'sky' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified five Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies. These five etymologies form a rhyme correspondence. This regular sound change validates the etymological connection between Sinitic and Uralic.
Gao, J.
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Improving Reliability of Onomastic Etymology (with Reference to the Southeastern Lake Onega Region)
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper addresses the problem of improving reliability of onomastic etymologies using the example of historical and modern personal and place names of southeastern Lake Onega region.
Anton I. Sobolev
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British Dental Journal, 2008 Our vocabulary grows as undergraduates, and continues to develop as we continue to grow as dental professionals. For many of us not learned in Latin or Greek, we are too busy learning what words mean rather than appreciating why a word means what it does.
N, Cooper, L, Cascarini
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