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Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency: An Exploratory Questionnaire Study
Languages, 2018 This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-frequency ...
Malte Rosemeyer
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On the Etymology of Polish jarmułka
LingVaria, 2013 On the Etymology of Polish ...
Bohdan A. Struminsky
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AN ESSAY ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE LEXEME “YOGURT”
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2017 The etymology of the lexeme yogurt which has been borrowed by world languages from Turkish lies in the phrase “to put milk to sleep”, which lives along with yogurt.
Gökçen DURUKOĞLU
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THE ETYMOLOGY OF BARTHOLOMEW [PDF]
The Journal of Theological Studies, 1904 n ...
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Lydutvikling i og normering av nokre stadnamn
Namn og NemneEtymology has traditionally been an important part of place-name research, not least in Norway. From the outset of Norwegian onomastics, this was combined with standardisation issues and how place names should be spelled.
Ivar Berg
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 The paper discusses some problems that searcher must face when he investigates the etymology of a word. After a short discussion of general problems, I present some etymologies of Armenian words: erivar ‘horse’ (from *roi-bho, originally ‘[animal] brown’,
Moreno Morani
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The etymology of the Turkic ev, eb, üj etc. ‘house’
Studia Linguistica Universitatis CracoviensisThis paper collates and reviews previously proposed etymologies of the Turkic word ev, eb, üj etc. ‘house’.
Jakub Łukasik
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About a fashion-related Estonian-Swedish loanword krunn
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012 The word krunn in the meaning of a certain hairdo first occurs in lexicographic sources as late as 1960. It had no etymology proposed until now. A source for this word is proposed – the Estonian-Swedish krún‘a crown; a cockscomb’.
Sven-Erik Soosaar
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Proto-Slavic *kŭrkŭ: Semantics and Etymology
Slovene, 2021 The article is devoted to the semantics of the Proto-Slavic word *kъrkъ, whose descendants have a wide range of meanings from ‘throat’ to ‘back’. The analysis presented shows that the Proto-Slavic word can be most probably reconstructed to mean ‘vertebra
Mikhail N. Saenko
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