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  2. Cornouaille - Wikipedia

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    The toponym Cornouaille was established in the early Middle Ages in the southwest of the Breton peninsula. [3] Prior to this, following the withdrawal of Rome from Britain, other British migrants from what is now modern Devon had established the region of Domnonea (in Breton) or Domnonée (in French) in the north of the peninsula, taken from the Latin Dumnonia.

  3. Municipality - Wikipedia

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    municipality consists of an urban area (termed a city or town) plus all of its surrounding barrios comprising the municipality. It has a popularly elected administration and a municipal mayor. The seat of the municipal government is located in such urban area and serves the entire municipal jurisdiction. [19] [20] Municipalities of Puerto Rico ...

  4. Cognate object - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a cognate object (also known as a cognate accusative or an internal accusative [1]) is a verb's object which is etymologically related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun form.

  5. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    Habēre, on the other hand, is from PIE *gʰabʰ 'to give, to receive', and hence cognate with English give and German geben. [5] 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-.

  6. Cognate linkage - Wikipedia

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    Animation showing the construction of a geared five-bar cognate linkages from an initial four-bar cognate. A five-bar linkage has two degrees of freedom, and thus there does not exist a five-bar linkage which is capable of acting as a cognate. [Note 1] However, it is possible to generate a 5-bar cognate using gears. Select four-bar linkage of ...

  7. Contrastive linguistics - Wikipedia

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    While traditional linguistic studies had developed comparative methods (comparative linguistics), chiefly to demonstrate family relations between cognate languages, or to illustrate the historical developments of one or more languages, modern contrastive linguistics intends to show in what ways the two respective languages differ, in order to help in the solution of practical problems.

  8. Linguistic distance - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic distance is the measure of how different one language (or dialect) is from another. [1] [2] Although they lack a uniform approach to quantifying linguistic distance between languages, linguists apply the concept to a variety of linguistic contexts, such as second-language acquisition, historical linguistics, language-based conflicts, and the effects of language differences on trade.

  9. Fagne (natural region) - Wikipedia

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    The Fagne or la Fagne (French: fen) is a natural region in southern Belgium and northern France, sometimes grouped with Famenne as Fagne-Famenne. It should not be confused with the High Fens (French: Hautes Fagnes), which are further east and straddle the border of Belgium and Germany.