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Dermatophagia. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit. skin and φαγεία lit. eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit. biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica.
This list excludes words that come from French, but were introduced into the English language via a language other than French, which include commodore, domineer, filibuster, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer . English words of French origin can also be distinguished from ...
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
I have exactly the same calluses on my knuckles from nervous chewing of my fingers - and I understand that to be dermatophagia. Perhaps that photograph could be added to this page in order to show the diversity of dermatophagia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.199.51 12:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
The Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (DEAF) is an etymological dictionary of Old French. The lexicographic project was born in the mid-sixties of the 20th century and has been in progress ever since with its headquarters at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany). Known and valued amongst linguists ...
Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The D'Antin Manuscript ( Mother Goose Rhymes ), published in 1967 by Luis d'Antin van Rooten, is purportedly a collection of poems written in archaic French with learned glosses. In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory ...
Chant du départ. "Le Chant du départ" ( lit. 'The Song of Departure') is a revolutionary and war song written by Étienne Méhul (music) and Marie-Joseph Chénier (words) in 1794. It was the official anthem of the French Empire, [2] and it is currently the unofficial regional anthem of French Guiana and the presidential anthem of France. [3]
Corgis are renowned for their intelligence, and one precious Corgi named Eowyn proved just how smart they can be. Eowyn amazed her owners, one of whom is deaf, by learning the signs for all her ...