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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 Cath

.../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]]

...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". Accord

...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.

...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 Easte

...[[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.com

...ns have a highly developed [[brain]], capable of abstract [[reasoning]], [[language]], [[inner life|introspection]], and problem solving. This mental capabilit

...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 betw

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 s

...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 the

...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?)

...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]].

...p?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English] [[language]] term bless likely derives from the 1225 term blessen, which developed fro

...n 'kind', 'type', or 'sort'. They derive ultimately from a widely attested Proto-Indo-European root ''g^en-'', ...Indo-European Roots', to ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', Fourth Edition

...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. Conti

...''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, n

...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]

...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]]''

Complex [[language]]s had started to emerge, which both deepened relationships

...overed and revived with the [[Renaissance]], and came into the [[English]] language in the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th century]. [ht

...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

...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 t

...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 l

...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 monotheisti

...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 wri

...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 ton

...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.ht

...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

# 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.)

...[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 psycholo

...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 the