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Word Etymology as Native Language Interference
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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Long Trails of Etymology [PDF]
Sometimes, though we scarcely ever notice it, words give clear evidence of where they came from: arrive makes it obvious that Frenchmen reached the river in this way, while Greek helps one to see that harmony came from making a joint, making things fit ...
Ashley, Leonard R. N.
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The BHZB herbarium was founded in 1993 with about 16 787 registers – a number that has to be considered as small when compared to larger herbaria in Brazil. In the BHZB, 97.5% of the vouchers are from the Minas Gerais state (ca 16 372 specimens), with Asteraceae being the best represented family.
Vinícius Resende Bueno+5 more
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Taxonomic etymology – in search of inspiration
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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The loss of *g before *m in Proto-Slavic [PDF]
This paper proposes a new sound rule for Proto-Slavic, according to which *g (from PIE *g, *gw, *gh, and *gwh) was lost before *m. This development was posterior to Winter’s law and the merger of voiced and aspirated stop in Slavic.
Matasović, Ranko
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We re‐examined the taxonomic status of a plant previously identified as Sedum formosanum subsp. formosanum from four islands in the Satsunan Islands, Japan. To clarify its taxonomic identity, we conducted morphological and phenological comparisons and performed molecular phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and three
Takuro Ito+5 more
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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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Etytree: A Graphical and Interactive Etymology Dictionary based on Wiktionary
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
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Hyptidinae (Lamiaceae), with 19 genera and approximately 400 species, is a major component of the Brazilian Cerrado, with many novelties recently published. Two new additions to the subtribe are proposed here: Hyptis raymondii, currently endemic to the municipality of Cavalcante, Goiás State, and Hypenia filicifolia, endemic to the Federal District ...
Guilherme Medeiros Antar+3 more
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