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Moniker: Etymology and Lexicographical History
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2013 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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Diachronic Corpora as a Tool for Tracing Etymological Information of Indonesian-Malay Lexicon
Register Journal, 2020 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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An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.This historical study investigates ancient Roman surgical techniques for treating ozena as described by Celsus, with a focus on its historical and etymological context. Independent translation and archaeological evidence contextualize two ancient procedures: closed nasal cauterization using a heated probe and an open approach involving dissection and ...
Perry Hammond +2 more
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Taxonomic corrections and new records for vascular plants of Kyrgyzstan, 6
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.A series of notes on taxonomy, nomenclature, morphology and distributions of native species of vascular plants in Kyrgyzstan is presented. Anaphalis roseoalba is treated as a synonym of A. virgata; Hippolytia herderi and H. megacephala are new synonyms of H. senecionis; Hippolytia darvasica and H. schugnanica are new synonyms of H. tomentosa; Campanula
Alexander N. Sennikov +4 more
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Romance Etymology: Tendencies and Prospects
Научный диалог, 2019 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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Word Etymology as Native Language Interference
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017 We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language – in this particular case English.
Vivi Nastase, C. Strapparava
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New species and new records in Agarista (Ericaceae) from the Peruvian Andes
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Agarista (Ericaceae) is currently represented in Peru by three species. Here, we update this number to five, adding new taxa based on the recognition of a taxonomic novelty and new records. The new species Agarista eugeniifolia differs from all congeneric species by an abaxially sulcate midvein.
Claudenice Hilda Dalastra +3 more
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Taxonomic etymology – in search of inspiration
ZooKeys, 2015 We present a review of the etymology of zoological taxonomic names with emphasis on the most unusual examples. The names were divided into several categories, starting from the most common – given after morphological features – through inspiration from ...
Piotr Jóźwiak +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.The new species Boswellia oropedionis Thulin and M.H.Weber is described, illustrated by photographs and mapped. This tree is only known from a small population growing on level limestone on the Qatariyah plateau in southern Socotra and is the twelfth endemic species of Boswellia from the Socotra archipelago. It differs from B.
Mats Thulin +2 more
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