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  • 31List of English words of Etruscan origin — This is a list of English words that may be of Etruscan origin, and were borrowed through Latin, often via French. The Etruscan origin of many of these words is disputed, and some may be of Indo European or other origin. ; antenna : ; arena :… …

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  • 32List of English words of Portuguese origin — This is a list of English words potentially borrowed or derived from Portuguese (or Galician Portuguese language: zebra was actually an extinct striped wild horse that lived south of Pontevedra, Galicia and the name was given by explorers because …

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  • 33Too Marvelous for Words — Infobox Standard title = Too Marvelous for Words english title = comment = Featured in the 1937 Warner Brothers film Ready, Willing and Able image size = caption = writer = composer = Richard Whiting lyricist = Johnny Mercer published = 1937… …

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  • 34List of English words from Latin verb forms — A very large number of English words are derived from Latin verbs in one way or another. Many of these are derived directly from the stem of the Latin verb, such as English evoke from Latin ēvoc ō call out . Others are derived from the stem of… …

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  • 35foreign words and phrases — 1. Fowler (1926), in an article entitled ‘foreign danger’, warned that ‘those who use words or phrases belonging to languages with which they have little or no acquaintance do so at their peril’. He was thinking primarily of so called ‘non… …

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  • 36List of English words of Italian origin — Many words of Italian origin have entered other languages. A large part of musical terminology is Italian, as are popular foods from Italian cuisine. Art and Architecture;Albarello :from albarello ;Amoretto, Cupid :from amoretto , diminutive of… …

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  • 37HEBREW LANGUAGE — This entry is arranged according to the following scheme: pre biblical biblical the dead sea scrolls mishnaic medieval modern period A detailed table of contents precedes each section. PRE BIBLICAL nature of the evidence the sources phonology… …

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  • 38Loanword — A loanword (or loan word ) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the… …

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  • 39Arabic language — Arabic redirects here. For other uses, see Arabic (disambiguation). For the literary standard, see Modern Standard Arabic. For vernaculars, see varieties of Arabic. For others, see Arabic languages. Arabic العربية/عربي/عربى al ʿarabiyyah/ʿarabī …

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  • 40HEBREW GRAMMAR — The following entry is divided into two sections: an Introduction for the non specialist and (II) a detailed survey. [i] HEBREW GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION There are four main phases in the history of the Hebrew language: the biblical or classical,… …

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