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The article deals with the problems of perception and presentation of the etymological heritage that has accumulated in the Russian historical studies of the Russian language since the introduction of the comparative historical method into the research ...
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Diachronic Corpora as a Tool for Tracing Etymological Information of Indonesian-Malay Lexicon
Indonesian lexicon comprises numerous loanwords which some of them already exist since the 7th century. The large number of loanwords is the reason why many dictionaries of Indonesian etymology available today contain merely the origin of the words ...
Kamal Yusuf, Dewi Puspita
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Moniker: Etymology and Lexicographical History
Popular language presents special difficulties for the lexicographer and etymologist, professional and amateur. Moniker ‘nickname, alias’ has found numerous explanations, none convincing. The term is traced to Old Irish ainm ‘name’, subsequently adopted,
William Sayers
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the Ukrainian nominations due to the internal form of the word. The names of literary language and vernacular on the basis of ethnolinguistic phenomena – folk etymology and taboos are involved in the analysis ...
Natalia RUSNAK
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The Etymology of “Chincough” [PDF]
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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Romance Etymology: Tendencies and Prospects
The article is devoted to the methodology, theory and practice of etymological research in Romance linguistics. The paper presents general regularities of the construction of the Romance etymological dictionaries and the main directions in the modern ...
I. I. Chelysheva
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‘(Ne) Khukhry-Mukhry’: One Russian Idiom of Mongolian Origin Revisited
The paper examines the etymology of the idiom ‘(ne) khukhry-mukhry’ which in its form fully corresponds to the so-called pair words widely used in Turkic, Mongolic and some Finno-Ugric languages.
Alexey A. Burykin
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Proto-Indo-European verb and Slavic etymology [PDF]
In Balto-Slavic, the large scope of stem variation within the verbal system inherited from Proto-Indo-European was reduced, on the paradigmatic level, to few apophonic verbs, reduplicated and nasal presents, but the former variety left traces in the ...
Loma Aleksandar
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MISCELLANEOUS ETYMOLOGIES. [PDF]
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