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1 As a noun. Toggle As a noun subsection. 1.1 Genealogy and inheritance. 1.2 Mathematics. ... "Descent", a song by Celldweller from Soundtrack for the Voices in My ...
-ik (Belarusian, Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian) It merely creates a noun in Slovak where -ik is a version of -ík, can be endearment, diminutive, have other meanings. [21]-ík It merely creates a noun and can also be endearment, diminutive, have other meanings; its other Slovak version is -ik. [21]
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from England, English culture, the English people or the English language, such as in the term Anglosphere.It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British descent in Anglo-America, the Anglophone Caribbean, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
(U.S.) A male of Korean descent. The word is derived from the racial slur Chink. Koranimal (U.S.) A Muslim - based on a perception of Muslims being violent or primitive. [citation needed] Kosher Ghost (Northeast U.S.) a Hasidic or Orthodox Jew - based on the belief that highly observant Jews have sexual intercourse through a hole in a sheet ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Greek στενός (stenós), narrow, short; + -σῐς (-sis), added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process restenosis, stenosis: steth-of or pertaining to the upper chest, the area above the breast and under the neck Greek στῆθος (stêthos), chest, cuirass: stethoscope: stheno-strength, force, power
In the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the term "Asian" generally refers to people of South Asian and Southeast Asian descent due to the large Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Filipino expatriate populations in these countries. [6] [7] [8] However, there are instances where the term is used solely to refer to those of South Asian descent. [9]