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  2. Furillen - Wikipedia

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    The old name "Furilden", is said to date to the Middle Ages, when fire ravaged the forests of northern Gotland, [a] including those on Furillen. [2] Another interpretation is that the prefix "Fur" simply refers to the pines on the island as one of the Swedish words for "pine" is fur or fura, [b] making the meaning "island with the pine forest".

  3. Fur language - Wikipedia

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    There are two underlying tonemes, L (low) and H (high); phonetically, L, H, mid, HL, and LH are all found. Metathesis is an extremely common and regular grammatical phenomenon in Fur: when a consonant pronoun prefix is prefixed to a verb that begins with a consonant, either the verb's first consonant is deleted or it changes places with the following vowel; e.g.:

  4. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O; Greek and Latin roots from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are listed in the List of medical roots, suffixes and ...

  6. Prefix - Wikipedia

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    A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. [1] Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative , because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed.

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  8. Nilo-Saharan languages - Wikipedia

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    By 2015, [20] and again in 2017, [21] Blench had refined the subclassification of this model, linking Maban with Fur, Kadu with Eastern Sudanic, and Kuliak with the node that contained them, and added a tentative, extinct branch he names "Plateau" as to explain a possible Nilo-Saharan substrate in the Malian Dogon and Bangime languages, for the ...

  9. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    Search for titles containing the word or using the prefix: dactyl-, dactylo-G δάκτυλος (dáktulos) finger or toe: black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla; Pterodactylus: All pages with titles beginning with Dactyl: deca-, deka-G δέκα (déka) ten: alfonsino, Beryx decadactylus: All pages with titles beginning with Deca: decem: L: ten