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  • ...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.
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  • ...sugre candy'', part [[translation]] of Middle French ''sucre candi'', from Old French ''sucre'' sugar + Arabic ''qandī'' candied. ...ing into [[English]] from the Old French çucre candi, derived in turn from Persian Qand (=قند) and Qandi (=قندی), "cane sugar". In North America, cand
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  • ...skrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil which have already been given the classical-language status.'' and one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and [[Buddha|Budd ...age]], and one of the earliest attested members of the [[Indo-European]] [[language]] family.
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  • ...Semitic [[language]] of the Chaldeans, Aramaic being used as an auxiliary language. ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version_of_the_Bible KJV] [[Old Testament]], was a marshy land located in Southern [https://en.wikipedia.or
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  • ...f its [[power]] controlled the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] trading routes. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerians Sumerian ...believes that the Garden of Eden was situated in Dilmun at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his rese
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  • *1: having the characteristics of the [[language]] of the [[past]] and [[surviving]] chiefly in specialized uses <an archaic In [[language]], an '''archaism''' (from the [[Greek]]: ἀρχαϊκός, archaïkós, 'old-fashioned, antiquated', ultimately ἀρχαῖος, archaîos, 'from the b
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  • ...nt Armenian՝ Միջագետք(Mijagetq), Arabic: بلاد الرافدين‎ bilād ar-rāfidayn; Persian: میان‌رودان‎‎ miyān rodān; Syriac: Beth Nahrain "land of r ...an control. In AD 226, it fell to the Sassanid Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_o
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  • ...rom Proto-Indo-European *mánu- 'man, human', cognate to [[Sanskrit]] manu, Old Church Slavonic mǫžĭ, 'man', 'husband'. ...male human". ("Wif" also evolved into the word "wife".) "Man" carries this old sense of "Human" however, resulting in an [[asymmetry]] criticized as sexis
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  • ...n]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing Sumerian language], though virtually lost to the world, was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik ...ement which was located on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] near the earlier [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun Di
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  • From Middle French humaine, from Latin humanus, from Persian humana, from Avestan vohu mana (good mind) ...uage are sometimes considered to be part of the arts, for example as the [[language arts]].
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  • ...struction]], destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources [[Jean-François Lyotard|Lyotard]], [[Jacques ..., is characterized by different interactions with the [[Ancient philosophy|Old Iranian philosophy]], the [[Greek philosophy]] and with the development of
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  • ...tudy of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself (grammar, vocabulary, etc.). ...n of wealth. The noun ''law'' derives from the late [[Old English language|Old English]] ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed. see [https://www.
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  • ...aters]] of the Tigris and Euphrates, in [[Mesopotamia]], Africa, and the [[Persian Gulf]], among others. ...ge|Akkadian]] word ''[[edinu]]'', which itself derives from the [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] term <small>E.DIN</small>. The Sumerian term means steppe, plain
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  • ...s been suggested for a handful of known Philistine words (See [[Philistine language]]). The etymology of the word into English is from Old French ''Philistin'', from Late Latin ''Philistinus'', from Late Greek ''Ph
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  • ...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 [[Mid
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  • * 82% of women aged 40 to 44 years old are mothers. ...in nearly every language on earth, countering the natural localization of language.
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  • ...[Mesopotamia]]n, [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], [[Semitic]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Phoenicia]]n, [[Carthage|Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[T ...a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white sea". In Arabic, it is ''Al-Baħr
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  • [[Image:Nazareth_ofold_1.jpg|right|frame|<center>"Old Nazareth"</center>]] ...rchaeological evidence from [[Assyrian]], [[Babylonian]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Hellenist]]ic or Early [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] times have been found. (
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  • ...ndex.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] of [[Urantia]]. Only among the old settlements of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wi ...ia, and the upper stretches of the Mesopotamian plains. This [[ancient]] [[language]] gave the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] tongues all
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  • ...," and the language that it is to be translated into is called the "target language"; the final product is sometimes called the "target text." ...aught with the potential for "spilling over" of idioms and usages from one language into the other, since both languages coexist within the translator's [[mind
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  • ...possibility- in [[Gurdwara]] (Sikh place of worship); in community centre; old people's homes; care centres; major world disasters, etc ...ame of God, [[Ahura Mazda]] ("Divine Wisdom"). A modern [[Persian Language|Persian]] form is ''Behdin'' ("Good Religion/Law," see below for the role of ''daen
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  • ...a general massacre in one day of all the Jews in the kingdom. Following a Persian custom, Aman determined by lot (pûr, pl. pûrîm), that the massacre shoul ...nguage, that every man be lord in his own house and speak according to the language of his people.
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  • ...antagonist]]s by the [[sheriff]] or [[marshal]] in 20th century [[American Old West]]ern [[movies]] * Language acquisition modules
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  • ...antagonist]]s by the [[sheriff]] or [[marshal]] in 20th century [[American Old West]]ern [[movies]] * Language acquisition modules
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  • According to the [[Old Testament]] book of [[Joshua]], a form of meditation is to meditate on scri ...he [[Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi]] Sufi order. Tamarkoz is a [[Persian language|Persian]] term that means ‘concentration,’ referring to the “concentration of
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  • ...l'', ''ufel'' Old Frisian ''evel'' (adjective & noun), Old Saxon ''ubil'', Old High German ''ubil'', and Gothic ''ubils''. The root meaning is of obscure In the originally Persian religion of [[Zoroastrianism]], the world is a battle ground between the Go
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  • ...elieved to communicate their will through [[oracle]]s, that is, in human [[language]] through the mouth of an inspired person. The behavior of these divine spo ...rote down their oracles, and the prophetic writings of the Hebrew Bible ([[Old Testament]]) contain, in part, a modest literary residue of this extensive
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  • ...habbah/Ma'rifah (fear/love/knowledge, Sufism/Egypt), fana (Sufism/Arab and Persian), [[enlightenment]], the way, transcendence, the [[Fourth Way]] ([[G. I. Gu ...ma]]/Creator, baqa' (Sufism), the perfect goodness, ultimate reality, hal (Persian sufism), a universal presence, force or divine principle. The ultimate unif
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  • "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real adv ...definition of a term sometimes differs substantially from their [[natural language]] usage. For example, [[mass]] and [[weight]] overlap in meaning in common
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  • ...s of men and they bore to them, their [[children]] were the `mighty men of old,' the `men of renown.' "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Boo ...n]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Language_and_writing Sumerian language], though virtually lost to the world, was not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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  • ...ape from, this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamian] or Persian peninsula except to the north, and that was repeatedly cut off by the south ...nearly lost their lives on numerous occasions before they were eight years old. As it was, they were rather well scarred up by the time they were twelve.
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  • ...i'ada the son of Pase'ah and Meshul'lam the son of Besodei'ah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. ...e heads of fathers' houses; also the priests until the reign of Darius the Persian.
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  • ...[[Sahelanthropus tchadensis]]'', is approximately seven million&nbsp;years old, which may indicate an earlier divergence. [https://www.nature.com/nature/j ...[heterochrony]]), allowing for an extended period of social learning and [[language acquisition]] in juvenile humans. [[Physical anthropology|Physical anthropo
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  • ...[[science]], [[intellectual]] endeavor, and new [[technology]] as well as old. As a result, when the most empowering tool of the century came along—per ...ry]] experience, captured however dimly in [[symbols]] supplied by human [[language]] or by whatever artistic [[expression]], however often repeated through th
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  • .../Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] and Ruth. Ruth was then nearly fifteen years old, and this was [[Jesus]]' first [[opportunity]] to have long talks with her ...me]] that [[Jesus]] had provided. Joseph and his [[family]] moved into the old [[Nazareth]] [[home]].
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  • ....jpg|thumb|26th century BC [[Sumerian]] [[cuneiform script]] in [[Sumerian language]], listing gifts to the high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her e ...ral Asia]] and [[Indian Ocean]] sea routes linking the [[Roman Empire]], [[Persian Empire]], [[India]], and [[China]], were well established 2000 years ago, w
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  • ...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 sh
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  • ...dan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andites] of old, these [[warriors]] proclaimed the [[existence]] of "[[Monotheism|one God i ...the Sumerian [[cities]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf] and was venturing on the waters of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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  • ...onflict]] must result in either decided [[victory]] for the new or for the old or in some [[degree]] of [[compromise]]. [[History]] shows that the [[strug ...ctices]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_religions#Antiquity Persian mystery].
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  • and exegete of Koranic scripture. He was born in Persian Bukhara, the capital of Arabic – and the large Persian encyclopedia, The Book of Knowledge (Dänishnämeh).
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