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Specific developments in Kiili place names
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012 Place names have changed with the rest of the vocabulary during the development of the Estonian language. However, with place names characteristic developments have occurred that differ from the general vocabulary. Irregular shortening, group transition,
Tiina Laansalu
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Mäetagused, 2014 The paper discusses the origins of the Estonian word jumal (‘God’). First, it summarises the versions proposed by previous treatises, and thereafter the linguistic material of Estonian runo songs is analysed in order to detect variations in its usage ...
Ene Vainik
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On the Origins of Some English Idioms and the Adequacy of Their Definitions in the Georgian Dictionaries (II Part) [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this article is to fill the informative gap and to overcome those difficulties which arise in case of not having the adequate interpetation or exact definition of the English idioms in the Georgian dictionaries.This paper investigates some ...
Dvalidze, N. (Nino)
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Rola etymologii w rekonstrukcji językowego obrazu świata
LingVaria, 2013 The role of etymology in the reconstruction of the linguistic world view The author assumes that etymological analyses are “ethnolinguistically relevant” because by reconstructing the motivation of names, etymology allows one to reach the methods of ...
Jerzy Bartmiński
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Results of Onomastics in Geolinguistics: Expedition Experience
Respectus Philologicus, 2012 This paper summarises the research material of the ongoing global grant project, “Modern Research of Geolinguistics in Lithuania: Optimisation of Network of Points and Interactive Spread of Dialectal Information.” The project aims to collect the most ...
Ilona Mickienė, Rita Baranauskienė
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The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]
, 2019 The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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Toponyms with the base *baz [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2015 During the research, it has been considered which toponyms on the Balkan Peninsula are named after the plant elder (Proto-Slavic base *baz). Using etymology dictionaries, as well as the list of settlements of the Republic of Serbia, we have found twenty ...
Nikić Biljana V.
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, 1989 In my forthcoming book on onomastics, What\u27s in a Name? from Genealogical Publishers of Baltimore. I discuss the folk etymologies of United States placenames -- among all other aspects of names -- such as ore or no go for Oronogo and all Benny ...
Ashley, Leonard R. N.
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TAXON, EarlyView.Abstract As presently circumscribed, the Paleotropical genus Tarenna, belonging to the tribe Pavetteae (Rubiaceae), comprises about 200 species and has its centres of diversity in tropical Asia and Africa. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies of the tribe revealed the polyphyly of Tarenna, suggesting that the genus needs to be recircumscribed ...
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On the Etymology of Adel [PDF]
, 2009 A light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela (‘filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water’ and possibly even ‘sewer, privy’) in favour ...
Hall, Alaric
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