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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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The Etymology of “Chincough” [PDF]
Nature, 1915 I THINK your correspondent, “M. D.” (NATURE, October 28), is wrong when he says that the Dutch word kinken means to cough. There is a Dutch verb kinken, at least I find it in the list of Dutch words of de Vries and te Winkel, but I never heard it, nor do I know its meaning. Hoest is the Dutch for cough (German husten); the verb is hoesten. Kinkhoest is
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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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Permeating etymology– remarks on Permic etymology
Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja, 2023 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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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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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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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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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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Etymology of the Serbian language: With a glance at the past and a look into the future [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017 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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