enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Loanword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword

    A loanword (also a loan word, ... Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws: ...

  3. Marathi grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_grammar

    The grammar of the Marathi language shares similarities with other modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Odia, Gujarati or Punjabi. The first modern book exclusively about the grammar of Marathi was printed in 1805 by Willam Carey. [1] [2] The principal word order in Marathi is SOV (subject–object–verb). [3]

  4. Marathi language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language

    Marathi (/ m ə ˈ r ɑː t i /; [15] मराठी, Marāṭhī, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ⓘ) is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in other states like in Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman ...

  5. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    Meaning widened from chess to general sense of "adverse event, sudden stoppage" and by c.1700 to (from Persian 'chek' (چك)"a token used to check against loss or theft" (surviving in hat check) and "a check against forgery or alteration," which gave the modern financial use of "bank check, money draft" (first recorded 1798), probably ...

  6. Credit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit

    The term came "from Middle French crédit (15c.) "belief, trust," from Italian credito, from Latin creditum "a loan, thing entrusted to another," from past participle of credere "to trust, entrust, believe". The commercial meaning of "credit" "was the original one in English (creditor is [from] mid-15c.)"

  7. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the numbers 1-10. However, this list is strictly of the ...

  8. Moreshwar Ramachandra Walambe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreshwar_Ramachandra_Walambe

    Moreshwar Ramachandra Walimbe (Devanagari: मोरेश्वर रामचंद्र वाळंबे or मो.रा. वाळंबे; 30 June 1912 – 21 March 1992) was an educator and a grammarian of the Marathi language. He wrote style guides and textbooks on the grammar of Marathi.

  9. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_loanwords_in_other...

    There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages.The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi.