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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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This article analyzes etymology as the study of the roots and history of words and how their meaning altered over time.
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On the Etymology of the Ethnonym Katukina
The present paper proposes an etymology for the troublesome ethnonym , used, for over a century, to designate a series of western Amazonian indigenous groups.
F. Carvalho
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
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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The Trichoptera of Panama XIV. New species of microcaddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park [PDF]
. In 2017, a new project was begun to assess the biodiversity of national parks and forest reserves in the Republic of Panama. Designated “Proyecto Sistema de Producción Sostenible Conservación de la Biodiversidad (PSPSCB)”, this project is managed by ...
Armitage, Brian J., Harris, Steven C.
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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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Escape from Etymology? A Corpus Study of Polish Adjectival Intensifiers
Using the Polish National Corpus (NKJP), the author discusses 31 Polish reinforcing adverbs to determine the degree of their semantic specificity and freedom of connection with adjectives. Empowering adverbs express the person’s judgement, attitudes, and
Katarzyna Dziwirek
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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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Semantics And Etymology Of English Astionyms In The Aspect Of Linguistic Geography
The article summarizes the results of the research into semantics and etymology of English astionyms in the aspect of linguistic geography. The study presents an English astionyms card index, which provides the description of semantic properties and ...
E. Khomutnikova
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Taxonomic revision of the genus Lactarius (Russulales, Basidiomycota) in Korea [PDF]
The genus Lactarius Pers. (Russulales) is a cosmopolitan group of Basidiomycota that forms ectomycorrhizal relationships primarily with both deciduous and coniferous trees.
Eimes, John+5 more
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