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  2. Lists of etymologies - Wikipedia

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    List of river name etymologies; List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin; List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin; List of indigenous names of Eastern Caribbean islands; Origins of names of cities and towns in Hong Kong; Lists of North American place name etymologies; List of place names of French origin in the United States

  3. Lists of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; ... a non-profit organization.

  4. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Emoji: These pictographic characters are often mistakenly believed to be a simplified form of the word emoticon, itself a portmanteau of "emotion icon". [63] [64] However, emoji is a Japanese term composed from "e" (image) and "moji" (character). [65]

  5. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  6. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...

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

  8. List of English words of Brittonic origin - Wikipedia

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    See List of English words of Welsh origin a list which includes Cornish (e.g. coracle; crag; corgi (type of dog), likely flannel; likely gull (type of bird), iron, lawn, wrasse (type of fish)) See Gaelic (e.g. keening, bog, bother, hubbub, glen, clan) See Breton (chiefly local terms in archaeology: dolmen, menhir)

  9. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    Some stock characters incorporate more than one stock character; for example, a bard may also be a wisecracking jester. Some of the stock characters in this list may be considered offensive due to their use of racial stereotyping , homophobia , or other prejudice.