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  2. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/D - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples da-, dida-[1] (ΔΑ)learn: Greek: δάω: autodidact, Didache, didact, didactic, didacticism: dacry-[2]

  3. Da'at - Wikipedia

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    Moshe Cordovero lists Keter as the first sephirah and excludes Da'at, while Isaac Luria excludes Keter as being too transcendent to consider as the first cause of Creation, while substituting Da'at instead. [18] Where Keter is the hidden soul root of the intellectual sephirot, Da'at is the hidden soul root of the emotions that emerge subsequently.

  4. Da (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Da (𑂠) is a consonant of the Kaithi abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , via the Siddhaṃ letter Da . Like in other Indic scripts, Kaithi consonants have the inherent vowel "a", and take one of several modifying vowel signs to represent syllables with another vowel or no vowel at all.

  5. Silva - Wikipedia

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    Silva, da Silva, and de Silva are surnames of Portuguese or Galician origin which are widespread in the Portuguese-speaking countries [1] [2] [3] including Brazil. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The name is derived from Latin silva ("forest" or "woodland").

  6. Names of China - Wikipedia

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    The traditional etymology, proposed in the 17th century by Martin Martini and supported by later scholars such as Paul Pelliot and Berthold Laufer, is that the word "China" and its related terms are ultimately derived from the polity known as Qin that unified China to form the Qin dynasty (Old Chinese: *dzin) in the 3rd century BC, but existed ...

  7. Uff da - Wikipedia

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    Uff da (/ ˈ ʊ f d ə / ⓘ; sometimes also spelled oof-da, oofda, oofala, oof-dah, oofdah, huffda, uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, ufda, ufdah, or uf daa [citation needed]) is an American Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay, typically upon hearing bad news.

  8. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The appearance of islands named "Bracile", "Hy-Brazil", or "Ilha da Brasil" on maps as early as the c. 1330 portolan chart of Angelino Dulcert [112] sometimes leads etymologists to question the standard etymology.

  9. Dative case - Wikipedia

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    "Dative" comes from Latin cāsus datīvus ("case for giving"), a translation of Greek δοτικὴ πτῶσις, dotikē ptôsis ("inflection for giving"). [2] Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar also refers to it as epistaltikḗ "for sending (a letter)", [3] from the verb epistéllō "send to", a word from the same root as epistle.