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cwm in Welsh and cum in Cumbric; borrowed into old English as suffix coombe. dal [5] SG, I meadow, low-lying area by river Dalry, Dalmellington: prefix Cognate with and probably influenced by P Dol: dale [10] OE/ON valley OE, allotment OE Airedale i.e. valley of the River Aire, Rochdale, Weardale, Nidderdale: suffix Cognate with Tal (Ger ...
A Middle Irish cognate is given when the Old Irish form is unknown, and Gaulish, Cornish and/or Breton (modern) cognates may occasionally be given in place of or in addition to Welsh. For the Baltic languages, Lithuanian (modern) and Old Prussian cognates are given when possible. (Both Lithuanian and Old Prussian are included because Lithuanian ...
Likewise, English much and Spanish mucho look similar and have a similar meaning, but are not cognates: much is from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz < PIE *meǵ-and mucho is from Latin multum < PIE *mel-. A true cognate of much is the archaic Spanish maño 'big'.
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base , the facility is officially called Homey Airport ( ICAO : KXTA , FAA LID : XTA ) [ 2 ] or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield).
The Origins of a Mystery. The beginning of Area 51 is directly related to the development of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.After World War II, the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain around ...
Both Georgiev and Duridanov use the comparative linguistic method to decipher ancient Thracian and Dacian names, respectively.. Georgiev argues that one can reliably decipher the meaning of an ancient place-name in an unknown language by comparing it to its successor-names and to cognate place-names and words in other IE languages, both ancient and modern.
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.
Articles relating to Area 51, a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport (ICAO: KXTA, FAA LID: XTA) or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield). Details of its ...