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  2. Phoenician language - Wikipedia

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    The letter Y used for words such as 𐤀𐤔 /ʔəʃ/ ys/υς "which" and 𐤀𐤕 /ʔət/ yth/υθ (definite accusative marker) in Greek and Latin alphabet inscriptions can be interpreted as denoting a reduced schwa vowel [20] that occurred in pre-stress syllables in verbs and two syllables before stress in nouns and adjectives, [31] while ...

  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. Subordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The word in bold in each case is dependent on the other word, which is its head. Subordination in this sense should be compared with coordination. Two units or more are coordinate to each other if there is no hierarchical relation between them and they have equal functional status, e.g. [black] and [brown] dog with [love] and [patience]

  5. Clan - Wikipedia

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    The English word "clan" is derived from old English word clann [1] meaning "children", "offspring", "progeny" or "descendants". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "clan" was introduced into English in around 1406, as a descriptive label for the organization of society in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

  6. Ampersand - Wikipedia

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    SGML derived the use from IBM Generalized Markup Language, which was one of many IBM-mainframe languages to use the ampersand to signal a text substitution, eventually going back to System/360 macro assembly language. In the plain TeX markup language, the ampersand is used to mark tabstops. The ampersand itself can be applied in TeX with \&.

  7. Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia

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    vocative: used for a word that identifies an addressee. A vocative expression is one of direct address where the identity of the party spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence. For example, in the sentence, "I don't know, John", John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed.

  8. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    In other words, it is the source of related words in different languages. For example, the etymon of both Welsh ceffyl and Irish capall is the Proto-Celtic * kaballos (all meaning horse ). Descendants are words inherited across a language barrier, coming from a particular etymon in an ancestor language.

  9. Descendant - Wikipedia

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    The Descendants, an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi; Descendants, a Disney Channel television film franchise Descendants, the television film that started the above franchise; Descendants (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the television film; Descendant, Netflix documentary