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• Philology
  ...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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• Candy
  ...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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• Sanskrit
  ...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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• Chaldean
  ...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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• Dilmun
  ...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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• Archaic
  *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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• Mesopotamia
  ...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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• Womanhood
  ...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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• 77:4 Nodite Centers of Civilization
  ...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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• Humanity
  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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• Intellectual History
  ...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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• Humanities
  ...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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• Garden of Eden
  ...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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• Philistine
  ...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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• History
  ...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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• Motherhood
  * 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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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...[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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• Nazareth
  [[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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• Paper 78 - The Violet Race After the Days of Adam
  ...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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• Translation
  ...," 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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