enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Latinisation of names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinisation_of_names

    Latinisation (or Latinization) [1] of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation (or onomastic Latinization), is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style. [1] It is commonly found with historical proper names , including personal names and toponyms , and in the standard binomial nomenclature of the life sciences.

  3. Linguistic monogenesis and polygenesis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_monogenesis_and...

    According to this hypothesis, languages evolved as several lineages independent of one another. [16] Modern investigation about creole languages demonstrated that with an appropriate linguistic input or pidgin, children develop a language with stable and defined grammar in one generation. [17] Creole languages descend from pidgins.

  4. Talk:List of Greek and Latin roots in English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Greek_and...

    One might consider breaking the page into two, one kind of root going on one page, another on another. My apologies for a lack of Greek examples. I am slightly less familiar with Greek than with Latin. Lewis, Charlton T., Ph. D. Oxford Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford University Press; New York. 1889.

  5. Linguistic homeland - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_homeland

    A proto-language is the reconstructed or historically-attested parent language of a group of languages that are genetically related. Depending on the age of the language family under consideration, its homeland may be known with near-certainty (in the case of historical or near-historical migrations) or it may be very uncertain (in the case of ...

  6. Onomastics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics

    An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians. Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.

  7. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs

    For informal communication, only the first name is used: Иван Ivan. Even more informally, diminutives (several can be formed from one name) are often used. In rural areas, the patronymic name alone (Петрович Petrovich, Ивановна Ivanovna) is used by old people among themselves, but young people sometimes use the form for ...

  8. These are the pedophile symbols you need to know to protect ...

    www.aol.com/news/2016-04-26-these-are-the...

    One logo depicts a small heart surrounded by a larger heart, symbolizing a relationship between an pedophile and minor girl. Another logo resembles a butterfly and represents non-preferential ...

  9. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by...

    Lists of English words of Celtic origin; List of English words of Chinese origin; List of English words of Czech origin; List of English words of Dravidian origin (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) List of English words of Dutch origin. List of English words of Afrikaans origin; List of South African slang words; List of place names of Dutch ...