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On the Etymology of Polish jarmułka
LingVaria, 2013 On the Etymology of Polish ...
Bohdan A. Struminsky
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Typification of three iconic and widely distributed species of Muscari (Asparagaceae)
TAXON, EarlyView.Abstract Many species of Muscari, a genus of Mediterranean geophytes, are plagued by intricate nomenclatural issues, which is characteristic for plants with an extensive horticultural history. Here we typify the names currently applied to three widely distributed and cultivated species: M. armeniacum, M. commutatum, and M. tenuiflorum.
Tim Böhnert +2 more
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Missouri Botanical Garden's cycad collection: A journey through time
Plant Species Biology, EarlyView.This article summarizes the history of the Missouri Botanical Garden's extensive cycad collection. Some of the specimens currently housed in the living collections date back well over 100 years. Cycads continue to face a myriad of threats in the wild, and their conservation in ex situ collections is of critical importance to assist in their survival ...
Benjamin E. Deloso +3 more
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Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019 Proto-Slavic *lzъ lza m. ‛(fallow) field or meadow created where there used to be forest’ is explained as derived from Proto-Indo-European *lo-ós, the o-grade form of *le- with Balto-Slavic lengthening according to Winter’s law.
Simona Klemenčič
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 The etymology of the Germanic stem *paþa- > engl. paþ / pað is taken into consideration and the usual explanation as a Celtic or as an Iranic loan is rejected in favour of a viewpoint that tends to see *paþa- as an original Germanic stem, to be ...
Giovanni Gobber
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THE ETYMOLOGY OF BARTHOLOMEW [PDF]
The Journal of Theological Studies, 1904 n ...
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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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, 2015 The article deals with the languages of origin and sources of English proverbs. The aim of this study is to identify and quantify the rankings (based on the proportion of paremiological units) of languages of origin, personal, functional and stylistic ...
E. Ivanov +3 more
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FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2014 The word 'metagenomic' is one of the most used words in environmental microbiology especially in recent years, yet sometimes it is a little overused. Can studies targeting a single gene be considered 'metagenomic'?
Alfonso Esposito, M. Kirschberg
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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