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  2. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    and wife Usually used instead of naming a man's wife as a party in a case. / ˌ ɛ t ˈ ʌ k s ɔːr / et vir: and husband Usually used instead of naming a woman's husband as a party in a case. / ˌ ɛ t ˈ v ɜːr / ex aequo et bono: of equity and [the] good Usually defined as "what is right and good."

  3. Primogeniture - Wikipedia

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    But usually the husband of the heiress became the real lord, ruling in right of his wife (jure uxoris), though on her death the title would not remain with him but pass to her heir. In more complex medieval cases, the sometimes conflicting principles of proximity of blood and primogeniture competed, and outcomes were at times unpredictable ...

  4. Agni - Wikipedia

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    Agni ( Sanskrit: अग्नि, Sanskrit pronunciation: [ˈɐgni]) is the Hindu god of fire. [4] [5] [6] As the guardian deity of the southeast direction, he is typically found in southeast corners of Hindu temples. [7] In the classical cosmology of Hinduism, fire ( Agni) is one of the five inert impermanent elements ( Pañcabhūtá) along ...

  5. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  6. Korean honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The Korean language has a system of honorifics that recognizes and reflects the hierarchical social status of participants with respect to the subject and/or the object and/or the audience. Speakers use honorifics to indicate their social relationship with the addressee and/or subject of the conversation, concerning their age, social status ...

  7. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh , the infinitive is given.

  8. Ghatotkacha - Wikipedia

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    Ghatotkacha was the son of the Pandava Bhima and the demoness Hidimbi, and thus a half-human, half-demon hybrid. He is the father of Anjanparva, Barbarika and Meghavarna. As the head of one akshauhini army, he was an important fighter from the Pandava side in the Kurukshetra war and caused a great deal of destruction to the Kaurava army.

  9. Yashoda - Wikipedia

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    Yashoda ( Sanskrit: यशोदा, IAST: Yaśodā) is the foster-mother of Krishna and the wife of Nanda. She is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the wife of Nanda, the chieftain of Gokulam, and the sister of Rohini. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna was born to Devaki, but Krishna's father, Vasudeva, brought the newborn ...