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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
<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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Permeating etymology– remarks on Permic etymology
This article discusses five Permic words or group of words including *ki̮ri̮m ‘handful, bunch’, *kun ‘lye’, *li̮a ‘sand’, *mi̮r- ‘to take by force, exert effort’ and *vi̮ŋ ‘strength, might’. The words typically have an existing etymology, which in most cases is a Uralic comparison.
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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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On the Origins of “Pickawillany”
“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 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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ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF ‘CATCH’. [PDF]
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More on the Origin of the Ethnonym udmurt; 90-97 [PDF]
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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Etymology of the Serbian language: With a glance at the past and a look into the future [PDF]
After an introductory overview of previous achievements in the field, abroad and at home, during the 19th and 20th centuries, this paper deals with the present state of Serbian etymology (i.e.
Vlajić-Popović Jasna B.
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