• in Italian), assign the loanword a feminine gender. Using cognates and homonyms in a process called "rhyme analogy". Thus, "quart" (English) becomes "quarto"...
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    Self-determination (category Articles containing Basque-language text)
    The Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria, Spanish: País Vasco, French: Pays Basque) as a cultural region (not to be confused with the homonym Autonomous...
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    also used choto (var. chotera, chotaco) in the same sense. The word is a homonym as it is also synonymous with "senile" when used as "He/she is chocho/chocha"...
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  • called Species: proper, appellative, adjective, relative, quasi-relative, homonym, synonym, pheronym, dionym, eponym, national, interrogative, indefinite...
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  • but based on a different type; only one of the homonyms is considered a valid designation (see homonym (biology)). Compare to synonym. hydronym: a name...
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    300 homonyms or synonyms: over 250 for Chasselas Blanc, about 300 for Pinot Noir, and close to 350 for Muscat à Petits Grains Blancs. Often homonyms or...
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  • Europe, North America and Australasia Albanian Armenian Ashkenazi Jewish Basque Estonian Finnish Georgian Greek Ancient Greek Cypriot Hungarian Indosphere...
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    2002. The name is given in Persian as Magas or Makas. The name Magas is a homonym of the Persian word magas, meaning "fly", and the medieval writers al-Mas'udi...
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    Boletus aereus (category Basque cuisine)
    mushroom in the family Boletaceae. The bolete is widely consumed in Spain (Basque Country and Navarre), France, Italy, Greece, and generally throughout the...
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  • Jiangsu province, China, "the famous flower of Yangtze River", Chinese homonym of the Yangtze River JPL · 5384 5385 Kamenka 1975 TS3 Kamenka (Kamianka)...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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    used for several purposes. The venue is the last surviving 19th-century Basque pelota fronton in Madrid. It was declared bien de interés cultural on 27...
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  • steal their comb (sometimes with trickering consequences). Moura is a homonym word with two distinct roots and meanings; one from Celtic *MRVOS, the...
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  • after their home prefecture. If both a prefecture and its capital are homonyms, the club can be said to represent both. Japan Ehime F.C., F.C. Gifu, Tochigi...
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  • usually indicated in Bulgarian except in dictionaries and sometimes in homonyms that are distinguished only by stress. However, Bulgarian usually uses...
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    verb paradigm Citation form Plain present Preterite Confusible lexical homonym? Neutral Contr. Negative Neutral Contr. Negative will will 'll won't would...
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  • pronounced identically, which helps differentiate words that would otherwise be homonyms, as in mane (silent ⟨e⟩ strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine (both...
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    —origin 1940s: from Greek akron 'end, tip' + onoma 'name,' on the pattern of homonym. "acronym". Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition. Houghton...
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    Non-modal Plain Present tense Past tense Participles Confusible lexical homonym? Neutral Contr. Negative Neutral Contr. Negative Present Past will Modal...
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    are not compulsory, but can be added to clarify the meaning of words (homonyms) which otherwise would be identical. One example is ein gut ("a boy") versus...
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  • today: feljebb), containing no particle. A verb may occasionally be a homonym in the above sense, i.e. being a single word or containing a particle,...
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    2023. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    accent may also be used to distinguish between two words that are otherwise homonyms. Barallete Castrapo Fala dos arxiñas, a jargon of Galician masons Galician-language...
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    wedding, and funerals by the Hakka people. The name of cake, fagao, is a homonym for "cake which expands" and "prosperity cake" as "fa" means both "prosperity"...
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  • which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel...
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    Elisa Zamacois (category Basque singers)
    Madrid, where worked at Teatro de la Zarzuela. She played Galatea in the homonym play along Modesto Landa (Pygmalion), Vicente Caltañazor (Midas) and Emilio...
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    indistinguishable from Шш. The reform also created many homographs and homonyms, which used to be spelled differently. Examples: есть/ѣсть (to be/eat)...
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    (vol.2 p.383 incorrectly identifies Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite with his homonym Pierre Lhermite. Levot, p. 316 Levot, p. 319 Van Hille (2011), p.338. Troude...
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    is phonemic in Sambal. Word stress is very important; it differentiates homonyms, e.g. hikó ('I') and híko ('elbow'). Many words pronounced with /s/ and...
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    Antoine, worn by a native), followed by the suffix -acum of Gallic origin. A Homonym with Antogny, Antoigné, and Antoigny all of which toponyms date back to...
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