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4 hours ago · As he mentioned in the previously quoted introduction, Humboldt collected multiple dictionaries to give them to his brother. Reportedly, he took twelve books in different languages (Quechua, Otomi, Mixteca, and Caribe among them) back to Europe and made further use of these volumes for his wide-ranging project researching anthropological ...
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4 hours ago · Spring term at Oxford University (6) 25A: 8 letters: Port on Tokyo Bay in south-east Honshu (8) 27A: 7 letters: Integer that is an exact divisor (7) 28A: 8 letters: Goodbye, a Japanese interjection (8) 29A: 7 letters: Father of James and John in the New Testament (7) 2D: 8 letters: Bird feeding on the parasites of large grazing animals (8) 3D ...
4 hours ago · According to the Bosniak entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, the first preserved use of "Bosniak" in English was by English diplomat and historian Paul Rycaut in 1680 as Bosnack, cognate with post-classical Latin Bosniacus (1682 or earlier), French Bosniaque (1695 or earlier) or German Bosniak (1737 or earlier).[26]
1 day ago · According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition (2006) the English word pilaf, which is the later and North American English form, is a borrowing from Turkish, its etymon, or linguistic ancestor, the Turkish pilav, whose etymon is the Persian pilāv; "pilaf" is found more commonly in North American dictionaries than pilau,All from the ...
