• In language, an archaism is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that...
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  • Look up sic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Example We are prepared, under appropriate circumstances, to provide information bearing on the credibly...
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    Russian Language (Ushakov's) 1934–1940 85,289 Current language with some archaisms. Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov's) 1950–1965 1991 (2nd ed...
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    by a number of phonological, morphological and lexical innovations or archaisms not found in North and East Germanic. Examples of West Germanic phonological...
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    women's conventional role as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism. Menarche, the onset of menstruation, occurs on average at age 12–13. Many...
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  • comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting Archaism, an archaic word or style of speech or writing. All pages with titles beginning...
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    kithara. Nevertheless, the term "phorminx" continued to be used as an archaism in poetry. The term "phorminx" is also sometimes used in both ancient and...
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    as a comarca in 1936, out of the old county of Pallars. The name is an archaism meaning "Lower Pallars"; to the northeast and into the mountains is Pallars...
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    because Spanish, Asturian, and Galician-Portuguese share certain peripheral archaisms (Spanish hervir, Asturian and Portuguese ferver vs. Catalan bullir, Occitan...
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    Language change Sound change Language change Semantic change Syntactic change Archaism Relationship with anthropology Father Tongue hypothesis Farming/language...
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  • Esperanto has little in the way of the slang, dialectical variation, or archaisms found in natural languages. Several authors have felt a need for such...
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  • broadcasting station of Belarus Byelorussia (disambiguation) White Ruthenia, an archaism for the eastern Belarus This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    definite article, a prefixed h-. It has been argued that the h- is an archaism and not a shared innovation, and thus unsuitable for language classification...
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    retrospectively called "the country of Akkad" (māt Akkadī in Akkadian), a deliberate archaism in reference to the previous glory of the Akkadian Empire. It was often...
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    wine"), at Phigaleia in Arcadia. Acroreites at Sicyon. Adoneus, a rare archaism in Roman literature, a Latinised form of Adonis, used as epithet for Bacchus...
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    pp. 97–117. ISBN 978-0-521-24304-9. Novák, Ľubomír (2013). Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages. Prague, Czech Republic:...
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  • not all scholars agree that the Pontic pronunciation of η as ε is an archaism. Apart from the improbability that the sound change /ɛː/>/e̝(ː)/>/i/ did...
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    pp. 1–2, 17–25. Sheridan 1986, p. 6. van Buitenen, J. A. B (1966). "The Archaism of the Bhagavata Purana". In Milton Singer (ed.). Krishna: Myths, Rites...
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    Sheridan 1986, p. [page needed]. J. A. B. van Buitenen (1996). "The Archaism of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa". In S.S Shashi (ed.). Encyclopedia Indica. pp...
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    is fyrre (Old Danish fyritiughu, "four tens", still used today as the archaism fyrretyve). Thus, the suffix -tyve should be understood as a plural of...
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    March 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2019. Cordy-Collins, Alana (1992). "Archaism or Tradition?: The Decapitation Theme in Cupisnique and Moche Iconography"...
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    Armenian and Anatolian languages, based on what he considered common archaisms, such as the lack of a feminine gender and the absence of inherited long...
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    (Tengri) and "zrlg" (zarlig, decree/order) are still written with vowel-less archaism: ... Your saying "May [the Ilkhan] receive silam (baptism)" is legitimate...
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    In thermodynamics, a reversible process is a process, involving a system and its surroundings, whose direction can be reversed by infinitesimal changes...
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    Novák, Ľubomír (2013). "Other Eastern Iranian Languages". Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages (PhD). Prague: Charles...
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