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Diachronic derivation: Mari etymologies
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse AjakiriThis article discusses the etymology of four Mari words: Proto-Mari *čükte- ‘light, set fire to’, *poδəla- ‘spoon, slurp’, *pükte- ‘brood (eggs)’, and *püəž- ‘sweat’.
Niklas Metsäranta
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On the Problems of Proto-Ugric *ć and Its Reflexes in Hungarian: Analyzing the Etymologies [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaIn this paper, the problems with the reconstruction of an affricate phoneme *Ä and its reflexes in Hungarian are discussed. Proto-Ugric *Ä is often reconstructed, but its alleged reflexes in Hungarian show unexplained variation (s, z, cs), and many of ...
Sampsa Holopainen
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Two new species of Calea ser. Multiplinerviae (Asteraceae: Neurolaeneae) from Brazil
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Detailed studies of specimens from Rondônia and Mato Grosso do Sul showed that two new species have been misidentified: Calea micropappa resembles Calea pilosa, but differs by leaf apex obtuse to acuminate (versus acute), paleae present (versus paleae absent), disc corolla lobes 1.2–1.3 mm long (versus 0.7–0.8 mm), and pappus scales 0.1–0.25 mm long ...
Vinícius Resende Bueno +2 more
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Is Greenberg’s “Macro-Carib” viable? [PDF]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2007 In his landmark work Language in the Americas, Greenberg (1987) proposed that Macro-Carib was one of the major low-level stocks of South America, which together with Macro-Panoan and Macro-Ge-Bororo were claimed to comprise the putative Ge-Pano-Carib ...
Spike Gildea, Doris Payne
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.A new species, Centaurea baghmalekensis Negaresh (Asteraceae) in C. sect. Microlophus (Cass.) DC., is described and illustrated from the Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran. The new species is morphologically most similar to Centaurea pabotii Wagenitz, a recently described species from the Khuzestan Province.
Kazem Negaresh
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The Etymology of “Whin.” [PDF]
Nature, 1872 THE following is from Jamieson:—“Quhyn, Quhin-Stane, s.i. Green-stone; the name given to basalt, trap, &c.… Isl. hwijna, resonare, hwin, resonans, q. ‘the resounding stone.’” “Whin, whinstane, s. Ragstone or toadstone.”
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Two new endemic species of Portulaca (Portulacaceae) from the Brazilian Pampa grasslands
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Portulaca L. is a monophyletic, cosmopolitan genus of succulent plants comprising ca 153 species, with particularly high diversity in xerophytic ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions. Based on morphological evidence, we describe and illustrate two new species from the Brazilian Pampa, Portulaca guaritensis and Portulaca guenoa.
José Roberto Ferraz +3 more
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Mže a hydronyma jejího povodí ve světle etymologie
Acta Universitatis Carolinae PhilologicaIn the article the name of the West Bohemian river Mže and its tributaries are analyzed in etymological perspective. In the first plan their Slavic etymologies are analyzed. In the second plan, possibilities of their pre-Slavic origin are verified.
Václav Blažek
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Agro‐pastoralist communities in Karamoja, Uganda, face food insecurity driven by climate variability, declining livestock numbers and crop failures. In this context, local ethnobotanical knowledge systems play a central role in subsistence and adaptation.
Emiel De Meyer +8 more
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