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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2021 Meaning and etymology: on Greek χρεών and εἵλωτες, and on a rediscovered Euripidian form, διχαστήρ or διχαστής (Ion, 1156). We examine three difficult cases where semantics, etymology and text establishment are implicated and where thorough analysis in ...
Alain Blanc
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Bibliographical Materials for Afrikaans Etymological Lexicography
Lexikos, 2011 <p>Abstract: Afrikaans etymological lexicography has yet to see an analytic dictionary along the lines of Sigmund Feist's Gotisches etymologisches Wörterbuch or Anatoly Liberman's An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology.
Jeremy Bergerson
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The decisive clue for an etymology is often found by chance. This paper presents four cases which come from the author’s personal experience.
Alessandro Parenti
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The wolf in sheep's clothing: Camouflaged borrowing in Modern German [PDF]
, 2008 This article addresses a phenomenon of language contact that has not received much attention in mainstream contact linguistics, namely borrowing via a mechanism Zuckermann (2003) calls MULTISOURCED NEOLOGISATION.
Busse Ulrich +7 more
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On the Origins of “Pickawillany”
Names, 2014 “Pickawillany” is the usual English name of a colonial-era Miami village located in western Ohio on the Great Miami River, near the site of present-day Piqua, in Miami County, Ohio. There have been many attempts to explain the etymology of “Pickawillany”
David J. Costa
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The early Middle English reflexes of Germanic *ik ‘I’: unpacking the changes [PDF]
, 2013 The phonological shape of the PDE first-person nominative singular pronoun ‘I’ is assumed to have a simple history. The final consonant of WGmc *ik ‘palatalises’ (i.e.
Laing, Margaret, Lass, Roger
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British Dental Journal, 2007 Many of us can remember how much our vocabulary grew as undergraduates and indeed has continued to grow as dental professionals. For many of us not trained in Latin and Greek we have often been too busy learning what the word means to understand why it means what it does. This article aims to clarify things a little. It explains where words relating to
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Educação Química en Punto de Vista, 2019 The presence of etymology of scientific concepts in books of natural sciences that the Ministry of Education of Chile gives to the municipal schools of the country was investigated.
Luis Miño González, Diana Abril Milán
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More on the Origin of the Ethnonym udmurt; 90-97 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 A new etymology is presented for the ethnonym udmurt, arguing that both its components are loans from Iranian languages. The first component ud corresponds to the Ossetian word ud, in dialects also od 'soul; life', cf.
M. G. Atamanov
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic +7 more
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