How To Use Etymon In A Sentence
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In fact, I'm starting to get the strong notion that the real reason why some Indoeuropeanists like Julius Pokorny had included Sanskrit kapr̥t- 'penis' into his cognate series under the 'goat' etymon was just to make it look less like a substratal loanword restricted to Western Europe and more like a fully attested IE root in order to fill out his 1959 book Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch.
Archive 2010-09-01
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The establishment of etymon and the coding scheme for Chinese character.
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Notice, reader, how Proto-Japanese *mi 'three' is claimed to come from *ñi and that the attachment of *[ñ] to the Proto-Manchu-Tungus etymon is unexplained and ad hoc, together with the fact that a change of [ɲ] to [m] neighbouring a front high vowel is absurd and completely unmotivated from the perspective of rational notions of phonology.
How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese
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My view is that etymon not only can vanish but also can be achieved in the course of the development of the language, and achieving etymon is an important way in which alien words are nationalized.
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My view is that etymon not only can vanish but also can be achieved in the course of the development of the language, and achieving etymon is an important way in which alien words are nationalized.
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(as, for instance, "equable," "gratitudes," and many others), and by twisting or translation of its classical equivalents and etymons give it some quite new sense in English.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Of the etymon of ‘pamphlet’ I know nothing; but that the word is far more ancient than is commonly believed.
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The blogauthor of Bradshaw of the Future noted that the American Heritage Dictionary combined 'to die' and 'to rub away' into a single etymon, something that makes perfect sense to me because it would suggest that 'to wear away' is the original sense from which 'to die' is to be derived through metaphor.
Rubbing away the shine (1)
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I think maybe the key here is that while people will go in with degree's in relevant stubjects, others, such as etymon maybe, will go in with just the poor and simple smarts!!
New Media Medicine
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But then, instead of calling the etymon "Hindi-Urdu cakor" or "Hindustani cakor," they invented a completely spurious distinction between what look to the untutored eye like two different preforms, apparently because their transcription system for Hindi uses c for the unaspirated \ch\ (presumably using ch for the aspirated consonant), whereas the one for Urdu uses ch for the same phoneme (and presumably chh for the aspirated one).
Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
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This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics.
Archive 2010-07-01
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Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning
Do Bianchi
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The introduction section begins with a brief etymon of the test and a real image thereof in the context of American copyright arena.
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But etymonline offers two other possibilities, a slang expression "fire a slug" that used to mean take a drink, or from Irish slog that meant swallow.
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This thesis discusses briefly some questions concerning etymon, such as etymon's position in the language system and etymon of alien words.
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The name bgas-fcola is undoubtedly the etymon of the French bouffole and Italian boffola, which Furetiere derives from buxula,
Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
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The probable etymon of each Gaelic word is given too, and when no information to the contrary follows later it may be understood that its sense matches closely that of the Gaelic word.
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Old English cwene, akin to the etymon of queen]. rig [Middle English riggen, of uncertain derivation] dialectal English; cf. riggish ` sluttish, 'as in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, where Enobarbus speaks thus of Cleopatra:
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 3
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This has got me thinking hard and long because while there appears to be a relationship between the above words, finding a common etymon behind them all is tricky.
A Minoan word for red dye
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Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning
Do Bianchi
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However, if we follow instead Hesychius' testimony, the irregular Celtic reflexes can be perfectly explained through borrowing from the implied Etruscan etymon *capra with its unaspirated k-.
Manly goats
