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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of English words of Etruscan origin
This is a list of English words that are thought to have their origin in Etruscan and were borrowed through Latin.
Allrik, H.L. The lists of Zerubabel (Nehemiah 7 and Ezra 2) and the Hebrew numeral notation.
The origin of the Ghubar numerals, or the Arabian abacus and the articuli.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-English-words-of-Etruscan-origin   (162 words)

  
 English language - Gurupedia
English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (Vikings), that began populating the British Isles around 500 AD.
English belongs to the western sub-branch of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Urdu origin)
www.gurupedia.com /e/en/english_language.htm   (2597 words)

  
 Lists of English words of international origin at AllExperts
These are lists of words in the English language which are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages:
**List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin
*List of English words of Old Norse origin (often coming from Vikings from Denmark or Norway, but at the time there was little distinction between the Old Norse dialects spoken in the three Scandinavian countries.)
en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/lists_of_english_words_of_international_origin.htm   (237 words)

  
  file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the co...
English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Old Saxon language and related dialects brought to B...
Konglish is the use of English words (or words derived from English words) in a Korean context or a Korean dialect mix...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/words.html   (8056 words)

  
 Numerals, Numeration, and Numerical Notation Bibliography
Allrik, H.L. The lists of Zerubabel (Nehemiah 7 and Ezra 2) and the Hebrew numeral notation.
The origin of the Ghubar numerals, or the Arabian abacus and the articuli.
The origin of the Latin numerals 1 to 1000.
www.phrontistery.info /nnsbib.html   (8619 words)

  
 Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Some use the words "myth" and "mythology" to portray the stories of one or more religions as false, or dubious at best.
By extension, many people do Not regard the tales surrounding the origin and development of religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam as literal accounts of events, but instead regard them as figurative representations of their belief systems.
For the purposes of this article, therefore, the word Mythology is used to refer to stories that, while they may or may Not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes.
mythology.iqnaut.net   (1060 words)

  
 Unicode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way, and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor.
UTF-8 (originally developed for Plan 9) has become the main encoding on most Unix-like operating systems (though others are also used by some libraries) because it is a relatively easy replacement for traditional extended ASCII character sets.
Alan Wood's Unicode Resources Contains lists of word processors with Unicode capability; fonts and characters are grouped by type; characters are presented in lists, not grids.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unicode   (5182 words)

  
 PART - Online Information article about PART
The origin of the word is obscure, derived perhaps from an obsolete tribal name.
For in the list of Median princes, to which we have already referred, are two bearing the name of Mazdaka—evidently after the god Mazda.
BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PART.html   (6477 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Index
List of BSA local councils and districts in Oklahoma
List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population
List of civil parishes in the Isle of Wight
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 Internet Public Library: Science & Technology
There is an outline of the S.I.; a list of its basic defining standards and also some of its derived units; then another list of all the S.I. prefixes and some notes on conventions of usage.
This glossary has a hierarchical structure, based on specific areas of microscopy; within each of these areas, a list of terms and definitions is included.
A list of resources related to philately and science is also included.
www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/sci00.00.00   (3234 words)

  
 Baby Names Central
Blade: (m) (English) "a sharp edge, a sword" (Poll rating: +12)
Storm (m and f) (English) "storm, rough weather, of a passionate temperament" (Poll rating: -24)
Dallas: (m and f) (Old English) "from the house in the valley.
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