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  2. List of English words of Arabic origin (G–J) - Wikipedia

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    Other propositions involving other Arabic source-words for the French gaze have also been aired. [7] In the West the word has had varying sense over time, something it has in common with a number of other fabric names. [8] A common explanation is that the word is derived from the city Gaza. [9] gazelle غزال ghazāl [ɣazaːl] (listen ...

  3. Hard and soft G - Wikipedia

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    In some words of Germanic origin (e.g. get, give), loan words from other languages (e.g. geisha, pierogi), and irregular Greco-Latinate words (e.g. gynecology), the hard pronunciation may occur before e i y as well. The orthography of soft g is fairly consistent: a soft g is almost always followed by e i y .

  4. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced /ʎiʎan/. Ljudevit Gaj first used the digraph lj in 1830; he devised it by analogy with a Cyrillic digraph, which developed into the ligature љ . In Swedish, it represents /j/ in initial position e.g. ljus.

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G - 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 A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . 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 .

  6. Palatalization in the Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    In French, the outcomes of /dj ɡj/ appear consistent with an early merger into [j] in all positions followed by fortition of [j] word-initially or after /r/, yielding modern French [ʒ]. Examples include DIURNUM > jour [ʒuʀ] and HORDEUM > orge [ɔʀʒ]. [43] (Note however that this is different from the usual outcome of original /rj/ in French.)

  7. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the symbol ɛ does not stand specifically for the open-mid front unrounded vowel in our system but any vowel that can be identified as the vowel in let's, depending on the accent. This is also why we use the simple symbol r for the second sound in grapes. Other words may have different vowels depending on the speaker.

  8. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    /ɔː/ when followed by an /l/ plus either a consonant or the end of a word, as in small, walk, etc. (In the case of walk, talk, chalk, etc. the /l/ has dropped out, but this is not indicated here. Words like rally, shallow and swallow are not covered here because the /l/ is followed by a vowel; instead

  9. Gh (digraph) - Wikipedia

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    Such as the word "pack" (a group of animals) in Ukrainian would be Romanized as zghraia (Ukrainian: зграя) rather than zhraia, which could be misconstrued to intend * жрая. The Ukrainian transliteration standard DSTU 9112:2021 (based on ISO 9:1995 ) uses gh to represent common Ukrainian letter г (the voiced glottal fricative /ɦ/ ).