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The word was loaned in Mozarabic and even in Arab pargha/bargha and from here to Spanish alpargata (Trask 2008, 74). abertzale / aberzale "Basque patriot, Basque nationalist" (cf. Basque abertzale). Recent loanword as it is a Basque neologism from the 19th century. agur "goodbye" (from Basque agur with the same meaning) (DRAE).
Nigel Richards is a Scrabble phenomenon! The New Zealand native claimed the recent Spanish World Scrabble Championships, despite not speaking the language. Richards, 57, battled more than 150 ...
Arkano (born 1994), Spanish freestyle musician and rapper; Arleta (1945–2017), Greek musician, author and book illustrator; Arletty (1898–1992), French model, singer and actress; Armand (1946–2015), Dutch singer; Aron (born 1993), American media personality, singer and rapper; Arrow (1949–2010), West Indian singer-songwriter
Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi (1883). He called it "a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get": We picked up one excellent word—a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word—"lagniappe." They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish—so they said.
The word is believed to have originated from one of the Romance languages or Latin and its direct descendants. The feminine word is zamba (not to be confused with the Argentine Zamba folk dance.) In some parts of colonial Spanish America, the term zambo applied to the children of one African and one Amerindian parent, or the children of two ...
Turkish grammar is highly agglutinative, enabling the construction of words by stringing together various morphemes.It is theoretically possible for some words to be inflected an infinite number of times because certain suffixes generate words of the same type as the stem word, such that the new word can be modified again with the same suffix(es).
Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry was published in 1963 and became a best-selling children's book. Scarry had been illustrating children's books since 1950, but this was his first as both author and illustrator. The book also marked the beginning of the author's work on the "Best Ever" series.
Music & the Spoken Word is a religious radio and television series. Broadcast weekly from the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City , Utah , the program primarily features performances of music by Tabernacle Choir (Choir)—often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and the Orchestra at Temple Square .