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12 hours ago · James Macpherson (1736–96), the nephew of Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation.Claiming to have collected poetry by the demigod Ossian from the Fenian Cycle of Celtic mythology, Macpherson published translations from Scottish Gaelic that he proclaimed were an equivalent to the Classical epics of Homer and Virgil and which immediately ...
12 hours ago · merger of Old English (earun, earon) and Old Norse (er) cognates auk A type of Arctic seabird. awe. agi ("=terror") English provenance = c 1205 AD (as aȝe, an early form of the word resulting from the influence of Old Norse on an existing Anglo-Saxon form, eȝe) awesome From the same Norse root as "awe". awful From the same Norse root as "awe".
12 hours ago · A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound.
12 hours ago · Latin ( lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio ), the lower Tiber area around Rome. [1] Through the expansion of the Roman ...
12 hours ago · The English word kraken (in the sense of sea monster) derives from Norwegian kraken or krakjen, which are the definite forms of krake ("the krake"). According to a Norwegian dictionary, the root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree". It originates from Old Norse kraki, which is etymologically related to Old Norse krókr, lit.
12 hours ago · Etymology and other names Main article: Shiva Sahasranama According to the Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary, the word "śiva" means "auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly". The root words of śiva in folk etymology are śī which means "in whom all things lie, pervasiveness" and va which means "embodiment of grace". The word Shiva is used as an adjective in ...
12 hours ago · African-American Vernacular English [a] ( AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more ...
