the toponym of Culhuacan took the form of a 'bent' or 'curved' hill (a play on the homonym col- in Nahuatl, meaning "bent, twisted", e.g. as if by old age)...
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"Horse-Mark", and Lohtûr for Éothéod, "horse-people". This word is an exact homonym of the Hungarian word for "horse", ló. The Rohirric word for "horse" has...
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Korean, the word for four is, unfortunately, an exact homonym for death Maberry, Jonathan; Kramer, David F. (2007). The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird...
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the Dictionary of the Irish Language distinguishes the word from five homonyms in Old Irish and Middle Irish, which have respective meanings "barrier"...
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etymology, the name is spelt to resemble the French language Arm of Gold, a homonym. It is also called locally The Bras d'Or Lakes. In Mi'kmawi'simk, the lake's...
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business and caterer The Sioux Chef. The Washington Post called it "a homonym to another... culinary concept", the sous-chef. In 2015, he launched Tatanka...
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are explained by him as perfect homonyms, denoting two or more absolutely distinct things; others, as imperfect homonyms, employed in some instances figuratively...
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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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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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Real Order is a topological ring (lalangue) and ex-sists as an infinite homonym. [T]he real in itself is meaningless: it has no truth for human existence...
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the city the writer was from; that helped distinguishing someone from homonyms. Hallyn, Fernand. "La Philosophia naturalis de Regius et l'écriture athée"...
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to feature the rabbit that would evolve into Bugs Bunny. The title is a homonym with an old nonsense expression — "harum-scarum", meaning reckless or irresponsible...
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well, particularly if the conversation involves a non-Chinese person. Homonyms - ie words that sound the same or almost the same depending on the tone...
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List of Australian wine grape varieties (section Identifying a variety - the problem with homonyms and synonyms)
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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Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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Show With David Letterman for the "Know Your Current Events" audience participation game (particularly the repeated "no" part, as the homonym "know")....
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CPU cache (section Homonym and synonym problems)
the same virtual address is mapped into different physical addresses (homonym), which can be solved by using physical address for tagging, or by storing...
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Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...
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drummer happens to be named Russell Simins, a profoundly inconvenient homonym for a writer hurriedly transcribing interviews and rushing a book into...
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in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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"Fulani | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-27. The homonym Fulani is also used by the Manding peoples, being the diminutive form of...
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prehistory between 1200 and 800 BC was a 'Dark Age'. The Hebrew term has a homonym, tarshish, occurring seven times and translated beryl in older English...
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two most frequent combinations orthographically required to distinguish homonyms in Bulgarian and Macedonian: Ѐ, Ѝ; a few Old and New Church Slavonic combinations:...
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Hence, the Chinese character for Jun in Lee's name was changed to the homonym 振 instead, to avoid naming taboo in Chinese tradition.[citation needed]...
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Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) Code and discarded C. australis as a junior homonym—in 1788, Gmelin had used the same binomial name to describe the black nunbird—to...
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Panoan languages (section Homonyms)
Shipibo Much of the confusion surrounding Panoan languages is the number of homonyms among different languages. The principal ambiguous names are as follows:...
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species, or uninomial for other ranks). The name must be unique (i.e. not a homonym). The description must be based on at least one name-bearing type specimen...
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Bird on a Wire. To prepare for his role, James Woods followed his quasi-homonym, NYPD lieutenant James Wood, on the job, wearing a bulletproof vest. Wood...
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erroneously previously described as Rallus minutus, which is a junior homonym Rallus natator (Pleistocene of San Josecito Cavern, Mexico) – formerly...
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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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