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• Latin
  ...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
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• Condemn
  .../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]]
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• Hero
  ...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
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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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• Semitic
  ...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
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• Womanhood
  ...[[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
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• Human
  ...ns have a highly developed [[brain]], capable of abstract [[reasoning]], [[language]], [[inner life|introspection]], and problem solving. This mental capabilit
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• Forest
  ...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
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• Words
  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
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• Sumer
  ...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
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• English
  ...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?)
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• Philistine
  ...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]].
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• Blessing
  ...p?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English] [[language]] term bless likely derives from the 1225 term blessen, which developed fro
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• Gender
  ...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
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• Celt
  ...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
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• Narrative
  ...''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
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• Names
  ...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]
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• Deity
  ...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]]''
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• The Helianx Proposition/page 65
  Complex [[language]]s had started to emerge, which both deepened relationships
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• Philanthropy
  ...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
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