inflectional+etymology

  • 31prefix — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French prefixer, from Latin praefixus Date: 15th century 1. to fix or appoint beforehand 2. [partly from prefix (II)] to place in front; especially to add as a prefix < prefix a syllable&#8230; …

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  • 32Abjad — For the traditional ordering of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, see Abjad numerals. An abjad is a type of writing system in which each symbol always or usually[1] stands for a consonant; the reader must supply the appropriate vowel. It is a&#8230; …

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  • 33Grammatical gender — This article is about noun classes. For uses of language associated with men and women, see Language and gender. For methods of minimizing the use of gendered forms, see Gender neutral language. For other uses, see Gender (disambiguation).&#8230; …

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  • 34Nahuatl — Mexican language redirects here. For Mexican dialect of the Spanish language, see Mexican Spanish. Nahuatl Nāhuatlahtōlli, Māsēwallahtōlli, Mexicano Nahua wo …

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  • 35Cockney — For other uses, see Cockney (disambiguation). St. Mary le Bow The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End.&#8230; …

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  • 36Chocoholism — is a portmanteau of chocolate and alcoholism, referring to an addiction to chocolate. Some connoisseurs of chocolate claim to suffer from this condition and describe themselves as chocoholics.EtymologyA thorough etymology of the word exhibits&#8230; …

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  • 37Exonym and endonym — In ethnolinguistics, an endonym or autonym (from the Greek ἔνδον, éndon, within or αὐτο , auto , self and ὄνομα, ónoma, name ) is a local name for a geographical feature, and an exonym or xenonym (from the Greek: ἔξω, éxō, out or ξένος , xénos,&#8230; …

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  • 38Portuguese orthography — The Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet, and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla, to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes. Accented&#8230; …

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  • 39English language — Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific&#8230; …

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  • 40Nasal infix — The nasal infix is a reconstructed nasal consonant or syllable *⟨n(é)⟩ that was inserted (infixed) into the stem of a word in the Proto Indo European language, that has reflexes in several modern European languages. It served the inflectional&#8230; …

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