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  2. Thalia (Grace) - Wikipedia

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    The Greek word thalia is an adjective applied to banquets, meaning rich, plentiful, luxuriant and abundant. Family. Typically, ...

  3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  4. Large (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Large is an English surname, with variants including Lardge and Lurge.Its meaning is variable, though it may derive from the Norman French adjective, large (meaning "generous" or "big" [as in, "that's big of you", meaning generous, as well as large in size]), as it is found in the surname "le Large" in English records dating back as far as the 13th century.

  5. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.

  6. Band society - Wikipedia

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    The term 'horde', formed on the basis of a Turkish/Tatar word úrdú (meaning 'camp'), [3] [4] was inducted from its use in the works of J. F. McLennan by Alfred William Howitt and Lorimer Fison in the mid-1880s to describe a geographically or locally defined division within a larger tribal aggregation, the latter being defined in terms of ...

  7. Young Wisconsin students describe terror of Abundant Life ...

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    Abundant Life is a nondenominational Christian school — prekindergarten through high school — with approximately 420 students in Madison, the state capital.

  8. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ab-, a-, abs-, au-[1]away from, down, off: Latin: ab: abdication, abduction, aberrant ...

  9. Family of choice - Wikipedia

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    A family of choice refers to a group of people bound by intentional and chosen relationships, with a focus on mutual love, trust, and commitment. This is in contrast to a " family of origin ", the biological or adoptive family into which a person is born or raised.