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    and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...
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  • called Species: proper, appellative, adjective, relative, quasi-relative, homonym, synonym, pheronym, dionym, eponym, national, interrogative, indefinite...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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  • Brennus 3rd century BC (died 279 BC) Gallic (Do not confuse with his homonym) One of the Gallic leaders during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans. Notably...
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    )[citation needed] A collection of basic roots that are clearly defined and homonym-free. They are completely invented and absolutely independent of any existing...
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    questions are indicated with interrogative particles, most commonly /teː/, a homonym of the negation particle. Tag questions are indicated with various particles...
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  • the following two popes: Adrian VI and Clement VII. He cured the future Cardinal Pietro Bembo of a serious illness and entered into controversy with another...
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    face of Dent Blanche rises above the homonym glacier. The four ridges encompass almost exactly the four cardinal directions. The west ridge is named Arête...
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    archivist-paleographer Arthur Bertrand de Broussillon points out that this is a homonym error : Charles d'Estouville did indeed marry a Marie de Craon, but she...
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  • Historical-comparative linguistics - Historical linguistics - History of linguistics - Homonym - Hypernym - Hyponym I-mutation - Ideogram - Idiolect - Idiom - Illative...
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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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  • for the concept of tikkun olam, claiming that the original prayer used a homonym "l'takhen" (spelled differently, לתכן‎) meaning "to establish" (rather...
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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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    (of the temple of Ptah at Memphis), under Ramesses II; but he had many homonyms. So, the omission-of-deity explanation is to be dismissed as wrong ......
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    This recent slang is mostly pure Vietnamese, and almost all the words are homonyms or some form of wordplay. Some slang words may include profanity swear...
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    representative government with full suffrage. Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United...
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    Chinese medicine, the tuber of O. japonicus, known as mai men dong, is the cardinal herb for yin deficiency. According to the Chinese herbal medicine Materia...
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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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    "often I remember", "think of me often" and, when spoken (exploiting the homonym souvent me sous vient), "I often pass beneath it" (referring to the inscriptions)...
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  • offer a wide spectrum of styles, either monarchic (mostly identical to homonyms in larger states) or republican, see Chief magistrate. Doges were elected...
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  • of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, S.S.J. (Josephites - which has a homonym) Society of the Catholic Apostolate, S.A.C. (Pallottines) Society of the...
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  • but then it does not support, for example, capabilities to distinguish homonyms; automated translation; and version management, etc. Those capabilities...
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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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  • 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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    epithet de' Gigantibus may be derived from the Nördlinger Ries, as the homonym Riese in German means "Giant". He was probably taught his trade in Florence...
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    life and became Bishop of Ephesus after 533. He is identified with the homonym "Abba", quoted by John Moschos (PG 87, 2956), of the Monasteries of Avraamiton...
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    with "-ness", such as goodness, freshness, laziness, and nouns which are homonyms of adjectives with a similar meaning, such as good, bad (can also use goodness...
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  • anything on their uniforms which suggested an actual bee other than the homonym of the letter "B". In 1946, the script version of "Braves", complete with...
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  • v America v Uncle Sam v Great Satan Acronyms United States v USA v US Homonyms Such as when the same name refers to more than one concept, such as Name...
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  • the bulk of the fleet entered the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is not the only homonym one encounters in reconstructing the biography of Giorgio. In those years...
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