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Research Topics on: word origin

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Books on: word origin

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Journal Articles on: word origin

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Magazine Articles on: word origin

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Newspaper Articles on: word origin

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    Word PLAY: Origins Are Right on the Money
    Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 26, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Word PLAY: Origins Are Right on the Money. Byline...for their labour, pay. The origin of this word is the Latin pax, ``peace...a weekly ``wage and this word might surprise some readers...Saxon term also gave us the words ``wedding (when two people...normally receive a salary. This word comes from the Latin salarium...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     
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    Why the Cat's out of the Bag; the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 31, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the VERY Unlikely Origins of Everyday Words and Sayings. EVER wondered...the secret history of words answers all of these...to die for THE Latin word for sausage is botulus...the world, but its origins were rather more humble...Wiki is the Hawaiian word for fast, and because Hawaiians duplicate words for emphasis, wiki...
     
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    Origin War of Words
    Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), July 17, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Origin War of Words. Byline: Steve Jancetic Wayne Heming THE war of words following one of the most brutal Origin games in history shows no sign of abating...Roach said. "Emotions run over in Origins - the fans didnt seem to dislike it...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: word origin

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    Germanic Languages
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...first or root syllable of a word, especially a word of Germanic origin. Another distinctive characteristic...vowel change in the root of a word. It is demonstrated in the...in that a number of the basic words in these languages are similar...
     
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    Hex
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    HEX witchcraft or one who works it. The word is of German origin, and beliefs connected with it spread from Europe to the United States, especially to the Pennsylvania Dutch country. The hex...
     
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    Tyrant
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...usurping the legal authority. The word is perhaps of Lydian origin and carried with it no connotation...in the 5th cent. b.c. the word took on its negative sense. Many...sense. See P. N. Ure, The Origin of Tyranny (1922); A. Andrewes...
     
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    Cabal
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CABAL k bal , inner group of advisers to Charles II of England. Their initials form the word (which is, however, of older origin) Clifford of Chudleigh , Ashley (Lord Shaftesbury ), Buckingham (George Villiers), Arlington...
     
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    Satire
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...sentimentality and to effect reform through such exposure. The many diverse forms their statements have taken reflect the origin of the word satire, which is derived from the Latin satura, meaning "dish of mixed fruits," hence a medley. Classical Satirists...
     

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