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Etytree: A Graphical and Interactive Etymology Dictionary based on Wiktionary

open access: yesThe Web Conference, 2017
We present etytree (from etymology + family tree): a new on-line multilingual tool to extract and visualize etymological relationships between words from the English Wiktionary. A first version of etytree is available at http://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/.
Ester Pantaleo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Amidst the remnants of the Atlantic Forest, a new species and a new record of Dalechampia (Euphorbiaceae) were found in Pernambuco, Brazil

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Dalechampia microcalyx is described as new to science and Dalechampia viridissima is recorded for the first time for the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Both species occur in remnants of the Atlantic Forest in the state, found in the municipalities of Vicência and São Lourenço da Mata, respectively.
Jone Clebson Ribeiro Mendes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘(Ne) Khukhry-Mukhry’: One Russian Idiom of Mongolian Origin Revisited

open access: yesМонголоведение, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Passiflora quimiana, a new species from the Cordillera del Cóndor: Ecuador's far‐flung frontier

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
A new species of Passiflora subgenus Decaloba, supersect. Decaloba, from the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador, is described and illustrated, with its morphological similarities to other species being discussed in this paper. Passiflora quimiana exhibits the unique combination of narrow ovate to long‐oval leaves and small foliaceous bracts ...
J. R. Kuethe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A brief history of Etymology

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013
The etymological studies never were independent of the linguistic ones, although they have their own method, which will be shown in this paper in a historiographical way.
Mário Eduardo Viaro
doaj   +1 more source

The etymology of “Islamic extremism”: A misunderstood term?

open access: yes, 2018
Dealing with Islamic extremism without considering the meaning and context of the term itself leads to a narrow understanding of the phenomenon and its implications.
Barend Prinsloo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom plant genera are named. Our open shared dataset serves to make women honoured in plant genera more discoverable, resulting in further impact by allowing ...
Sabine von Mering   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogeny and new sectional classification for the Cape Clade of the genus Indigofera (Fabaceae: Indigofereae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract The genus Indigofera in the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) comprises a diverse assortment of species. Almost 90% of the region's Indigofera species belong to the Cape Clade, while the remaining species are scattered among the other three globally distributed Indigofera clades.
Brian du Preez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

O sposobach tworzenia nazw miejscowości w świetle etymologii ludowej

open access: yesLingVaria, 2015
On creation of place names in the light of folk etymology The paper discusses the ways in which Polish place names were created, in the light of their folk etymologies.
Ewa Rogowska-Cybulska
doaj   +1 more source

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