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21 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
1 day ago · Ethnic groups in Europe. Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups may be defined by common ancestry, common language, common faith, etc. The total number of national minority populations in Europe is estimated at 105 million people ...
21 hours ago · For example, in Karok (a language isolate of California), an infix <eg> inserted after the onset of the first syllable of the base creates the intensive form of the verb (5a), and in Hua, a Trans-New Guinean language, an infix <’a> inserted before the last syllable of the base forms a negative (5b): (5)
21 hours ago · Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in ...
1 day ago · It's like the Germanic "fahren" and not the Romance language "fare." Fares better means goes better, not does better. I think I started to realize I was wrong when I considered that "fares" is an old, almost archaic word, so it would probably derive from and Old English root, not from the newcomer interloper of Old French, which only started ...
