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  2. Toast (honor) - Wikipedia

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    The general theme of a toast is "good luck" or "good health". At formal meals in certain countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, the first toast to be proposed is traditionally the Loyal Toast ("The King"). This may be adapted in other countries to give a loyal toast to the appropriate head of state. [15] Selected examples of toasts worldwide:

  3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  4. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    The etymology is disputed: two possible sources are an Algonquian word for "counsel", 'cau´-cau-as´u'; or the Algonquian cawaassough, meaning an advisor, talker, or orator. [11] Chinkapin (definition) From Powhatan chechinquamins, [12] reconstituted as */t͡ʃiːht͡ʃiːnkweːmins/, the plural form. [13] Chipmunk (definition)

  5. Loyal toast - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the Commonwealth realms, the loyal toast is most commonly composed solely of the words "The Queen" [3] or "The King" (as appropriate), though this may be elaborated with mention of the monarch's position as head of a particular state, such as in Canada, where the Canadian Armed Forces codifies the loyal toast as "Ladies and gentlemen, the King of Canada". [4]

  6. English etymology - Wikipedia

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    English etymology is the study of where English words came from. It may refer to: History of the English language; English words of Greek origin; List of Greek morphemes used in English; List of Greek and Latin roots in English; Latin influence in English; List of Latin words with English derivatives; Lists of English words by country or ...

  7. Encomium - Wikipedia

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    A figure of speech praising a person or thing, but occurring on a smaller scale than an entire speech; The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series; A literary genre that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue [citation needed]

  8. List of French words of Germanic origin (A-B) - Wikipedia

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    The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).

  9. Toast - Wikipedia

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    Toast, a 1999 play by Richard Bean; Toast, a memoir by Nigel Slater "A Toast" (anthem) ("Zdravljica"), a poem by France Prešeren and the Slovenian national anthem "A Toast", the title recorded in law for the North Carolina State Toast; Toast: And Other Rusted Futures, a collection of short fiction by Charles Stross