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- ...h as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns, although in prose the Romans tended to favor a SOV wo Although now generally considered a dead language, of few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin is still used by the Cath3 KB (463 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
- .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] [[language]] [[origin]] is usually said to be a root dap-, which appears in [[Latin]]2 KB (260 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...hough the original [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_root proto-Indo-European] [[root]] is unclear. According to the ''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', the Indo-European root is '''''ser''' ''[[meaning]] "to protect". Accord3 KB (517 words) - 23:57, 12 December 2020
- ...o understand a language, philology seeks to understand the origins of that language, and so it is often defined as "the study of ancient [[writing|text]]s and ...thors, and [[critical theory|critical traditions]] associated with a given language.8 KB (1,166 words) - 02:36, 13 December 2020
- ...people speaking a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic#Languages Semitic language] ..., [[translated]] as "name", Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a [[language]] family of largely [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Middle Easte5 KB (661 words) - 02:36, 13 December 2020
- ...[[sex]] or age. This is the old usage of "Man" in English. It derives from Proto-Indo-European *mánu- 'man, human', cognate to [[Sanskrit]] manu, Old Church Slavonic mǫ # queen - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Bartleby.com7 KB (1,115 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
- ...ns have a highly developed [[brain]], capable of abstract [[reasoning]], [[language]], [[inner life|introspection]], and problem solving. This mental capabilit6 KB (822 words) - 00:00, 13 December 2020
- ...2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] and were not borrowed from another [[language]]. Some now reserve the term woodland for an area with more open space betw4 KB (673 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
- A '''word''' is a unit of [[language]] that represents a [[concepts|concept]] which can be expressively [[commun ...m and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. A word consisting of two or more s10 KB (1,544 words) - 02:44, 13 December 2020
- ...le who spoke the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language Sumerian language] (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc., as evid ...rate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the [[hunter]] and fisher peoples, who lived in the7 KB (1,027 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...ages. Germanic, in turn, is a branch of the [[Indo-European]] family of [[language]]s. Subsequent to the establishment of English in "Englalond" (i.e., the la *ca. 3000 B.C. (or 6000 B.C?) Proto-Indo-European spoken in Baltic area.(or Anatolia?)14 KB (2,202 words) - 00:57, 13 December 2020
- ...s been suggested for a handful of known Philistine words (See [[Philistine language]]). The name "[[Palestine]]" comes, via [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Latin]], from the Philistines; see [[History of Palestine]].16 KB (2,335 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...p?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English] [[language]] term bless likely derives from the 1225 term blessen, which developed fro2 KB (292 words) - 23:40, 12 December 2020
- ...n 'kind', 'type', or 'sort'. They derive ultimately from a widely attested Proto-Indo-European root ''g<sup>e</sup>n-'', ...Indo-European Roots', to ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', Fourth Edition17 KB (2,536 words) - 00:07, 13 December 2020
- ...used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language. (Celtic Culture : A Historical Encyclopedia ISBN 978-1851094400) The term The earliest direct attestation of a Celtic language are the [[Lepontic]] inscriptions, beginning from the 6th century BC. Conti7 KB (978 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...''skilled'''". (Ultimately derived from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root ''gnō-'', "to know".[https://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE177.html] As with many words in the [[English]] [[language]], ''narration'' has more than one [[meaning]]. In its broadest context, n13 KB (1,917 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...kespeare]] as "The Bard", recognizing him as a [[paragon]] writer of the [[language]]. Finally, claims to preference or [[authority]] can be refuted: the Briti ...atin nomen, and Greek ὄνομα (onoma), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE): *nomn-.[2]10 KB (1,587 words) - 01:20, 13 December 2020
- ...eived of as a counterpart to humans. In the reconstructed and hypothetical Proto-Indo-European, humans were described as ''chthonian'' ("earthly") as opposed to the deiti ...[monotheistic]] and assert the existence of a unique deity. In the English language, the [[common noun]] ''god'' is equivalent to ''deity'', while ''[[God]]''11 KB (1,761 words) - 22:16, 12 December 2020
- Complex [[language]]s had started to emerge, which both deepened relationships4 KB (558 words) - 22:40, 12 December 2020
- ...overed and revived with the [[Renaissance]], and came into the [[English]] language in the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th century]. [ht6 KB (840 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...rACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=wrACAAA ...rd "estoire" was coined by Brigitte Gasson. The word entered the [[English language]] in [[1390]] with the meaning of "relation of incidents, story". In [[Mid19 KB (2,778 words) - 00:09, 13 December 2020
- ...orm ''*Ubilaz'', comparable to the Hittite ''huwapp-'' ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form ''*wap-'' and suffixed zero-grade form ''*up-elo-''. Other later Germa ...off our feelings towards the person we are harming. He cites the use of [[language]] in Nazi Germany as being a key to how the German people were able to do t26 KB (4,272 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
- ...nt will be compared. Next, brief considerations on a minimal definition of language will be followed by a look at the suddenness and revelatory aspects of its hypothesis per se—that human language, and with it, humanity itself, came into being in an event—has a higher l55 KB (8,507 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...the Proto-Germanic *''ǥuđan''. Most linguists agree that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form *ǵhu-tó-m was based on the root *ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to In the [[English]] language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheisti33 KB (4,925 words) - 23:57, 12 December 2020
- ...ems to have become the label of romantic fictions because of the "Romance" language in which early (11th and twelfth century) works of this genre were composed ...Verse allowed the culture of oral traditions to live on, yet it became the language of authors who carefully composed their texts — texts to be spread in wri50 KB (8,118 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...ia, however, Dante contradicts this by saying that God was called I in the language of Adam, and only named El in later Hebrew, but before the confusion of ton27 KB (4,610 words) - 00:36, 13 December 2020
- ...mastery, self-reproach, and self-sacrifice — are no longer in fashion. The language most in favor is that which exalts the self — self-expression, self-asser ...f-esteem; self-respect" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000. Online at https://www.bartleby.com/61/58/S0245800.ht29 KB (3,995 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ...competent to serve in the king's palace, and to teach them the letters and language of the Chalde'ans. ...cept their own God. [29] Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego sh61 KB (11,372 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- # The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000. ...ictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future", Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2001), pp. 25–47 (30f.)22 KB (3,093 words) - 12:48, 2 August 2009
- ...[heterochrony]]), allowing for an extended period of social learning and [[language acquisition]] in juvenile humans. [[Physical anthropology|Physical anthropo ...ception]], [[learning]], [[problem solving]], [[memory]], [[attention]], [[language]] and [[emotion]] are all well-researched areas as well. Cognitive psycholo56 KB (8,237 words) - 00:50, 13 December 2020
- ...lien obsessions that populate today’s ‘technological unconscious’. The [[language]] and [[ideas]] of the [[information]] [[society]] have slipped into ...e mestizoshamans of the Amazon region. Ayahuasca derives from the Quechua language: huasca meaning ‘vine’ and aya meaning ‘dead people’. Thus the57 KB (8,688 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020