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  2. Antoni Gaudí - Wikipedia

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    Gaudí's family originated in the Auvergne region in southern France. One of his ancestors, Joan Gaudí, a hawker, moved to Catalonia in the 17th century; possible origins of Gaudí's family name include Gaudy or Gaudin. [12]: 13 El Mas de la Calderera, home of the Gaudí family in Riudoms

  3. Gaudy - Wikipedia

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    The Lord Peter Wimsey mystery Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers, is partly set at such a reunion at a fictional women's college at Oxford. Sayers also uses "Gaudy" as the name of one of the bells in The Nine Tailors. The Gaudy (1974), set in an unnamed Oxford college, is the first novel in the A Staircase in Surrey quintet by J. I. M. Stewart.

  4. Word family - Wikipedia

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    A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes [1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work(ed)"). [2]

  5. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -aj (pronounced AY; meaning “of the" ) It denotes the name of the family, which mostly comes from the male founder of the family, but also from a place, as in, Lash-aj (from the village Lashaj of Kastrat, MM, Shkodër). It is likely that its ancient form, still found in MM, was an [i] in front of the last name, as in ‘Déda i Lékajve ...

  6. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".

  7. John Gawdy - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Gawdy, 2nd Baronet (4 October 1639 –1699) was a Norfolk baronet and portrait miniaturist.. Sir John Gawdy, 2nd Baronet self portrait. John Gawdy was son to Sir William Gawdy (24 September 1612 – 18 August 1669), created 1st Baronet in 1663, of West Harling, Norfolk, [1] and his wife Elizabeth, née Duffield (died 1653), daughter to John Duffield of East Wretham.

  8. History of the family - Wikipedia

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    Gender history: the family in the perspective of gender. Immigration: the study of the family and nationalities. Legal history: the study of the law of the family. Modern history: the study of the modern family. Migration: the study of the family pattern of global movement. People's history: the family from the perspective of common people.

  9. Gauci - Wikipedia

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    This origin would classify Italian holders of the surname as descendants of Maltese immigrants, rather than vice versa. Bearers of the surname Gauci belong to one of the most ancient and noble families of Malta. The family hold the title of Marquis of Ghajn Qajjed, first granted to Dr. Gerolamo Delicata by Grant Master Emanuel de Rohan-Polduc.