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uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English. It is often used as a reference to the divine being in the context of the Christian faith in Xhosa-speaking communities in South Africa. The term is often used to refer to the supreme deity in Christian theology.
Xhosa (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə / KAW-sə or / ˈ k oʊ s ə / ⓘ KOH-sə, [5] [6] [7] Xhosa: [ᵏǁʰôːsa] ⓘ), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. [8]
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. [38] [39] Originally coined to become a candidate for the longest word in English, the term eventually developed some independent use in medicine. [40] It is referred to as "P45" by researchers. [41]
But, Parade is here to tell you the longest word, accompanied by the 20 longest words in English and their meanings. The English language is vast, eclectic and a little bit complicated.
The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil. Typed words The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades , aftercataracts , dereverberated , dereverberates [ 33 ] and the more common but ...
A short word list was collected by James King in 1778. 1823: Xhosa: John Bennie's Xhosa reading sheet: Complete Bible translation 1859 c. 1833: Vai: Vai syllabary created by Momolu Duwalu Bukele. 1833: Sotho: reduced to writing by French missionaries Casalis and Arbousset: First grammar book 1841 and complete Bible translation 1881 1837: Zulu
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.