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In spoken Tamil sometimes an epenthetic vowel u is added to words ending in consonants, e.g. nil > nillu, āḷ > āḷu, nāḷ > nāḷu (nā in some dialects), vayal > vayalu etc. If another word is joined at the end, it is deleted. [9] Colloquially, the high short vowels /i/, /u/ are lowered to [e] and [o] when next to a short consonant and ...
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. ... It ends with the letter "A" 7 Across: Ending point for a walk down the ... Overly tough — HINT: It starts with the ...
-pie for words ending in -m: boom (tree) → boompie (little tree)-kie for words ending in -ing: koning (king) → koninkie (little king)-′tjie for words ending in -i, -o, or -u (usually borrowed from other languages): impi → impi′tjie-jie for words ending in -d or -t: hoed (hat) → hoedjie (little hat)
Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
h is used: when cognate words have the letter g , ż or z , e.g.: wahadło – waga druh – drużyna błahy – błazen; when the same letter is used in the language from which the word was borrowed, e.g. Greek prefixes hekto-, hetero-, homo-, hipo-, hiper-, hydro-, also honor, historia, herbata, etc. ch is used:
que is used for final /k/ in some English words of French origin, such as macaque, oblique, opaque, and torque. quh is used for /k/ in several English names of Scots origin, such as Sanquhar, Farquhar, and Urquhart or /h/, as in Colquhoun. qxʼ is used for the affricate /qχʼ/ in the practical orthography of Taa.