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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.
Alexandre François has argued that the principle should also be applied to interpreting the original definition of the reconstructed form. [1] For example, François suggests several definitions for the Proto-Oceanic word * tabu ( ' off-limits, forbidden, sacred due to fear or awe of spiritual forces ' ) based only on the comparative evidence ...
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.
The word is cognate to English locality. The Italian National Institute of Statistics defines località abitata (lit. ' inhabited locality ') as an "area of more or less size, normally known by its own name, on which are situated either grouped or scattered houses". [citation needed] Three types of inhabited locality are distinguished:
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 ...
The word cognate itself is a borrowing from Latin, and means "related". That can include a parent-child relationship as well as the relationship of cousins (unlike the German word normally used to translate cognate: urverwandt, where the ur-prefix stressses that the words are not just related, but are related in the distant past). But obviously ...
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-.
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.