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	English Words of Greek Origin
		Thousands of pastors, students, english words of greek origin and laypeople have found the Interlinear Bible to be a time-saving tool for researching the subtle nuances english words of greek origin and layers of meaning within the original biblical languages.
		List of English words of Hawaiian origin - A number of Hawaiian words have made their way into the English language.
		Some words are simple transliterations of Japanese language words for concepts inherent to Japanese culture, but some are actually words of Chinese origin that were first exposed to English via Japan.
	co35.mmtfinancial.com /englishwordsofgreekorigin.html (670 words)

	List of English words of Swedish origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of English language words borrowed from the Swedish language:
		In Scotland the Swedish word 'bra' has the same meaning (good, excellent, fine), it is pronounced in a similar way or sometimes 'braw'.
		Lists of English words of foreign origin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Swedish_origin (185 words)

	List of English words of Norwegian origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many of the words relate to the climate and culture of Norway.
		The word disappeard from Norwegian language and was reintroduced as an English loan word in the 1960s.
		Ski (equipment for skiing activities; originally a general word for a plank or chop of wood)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Norwegian_origin (384 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabulary includes words from many languages.
		The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and the relationships of languages, with its roots no deeper than the 18th century.
		Others make the word refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to perform all the duties possible to them; if any thing lay beyond their power, the exception was not to be cavilled at.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/chevychasees/etymology/links.htm (856 words)

	EnciclopedyLists of English words of international origin - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These are lists of words in the English language which are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages: de:Lehnwort
		List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
		List of English words of Native American origin
	www.adago.com /Lists_of_English_words_of_international_origin.html (66 words)

	Danish for English Speakers: Index
		All four languages are closely related, but Danish and Norwegian have a slightly simpler grammar than Swedish and Danish has the most idiosyncratic and least phonetic pronunciation of the four.
		English speakers may find Danish relatively easy to learn from a grammatical point of view but somewhat harder to hear and to pronounce.
		English speakers will recognize many "loan words" in Danish which have been borrowed from English in recent times as English has become an international language.
	www.statsci.org /dansk/index.html (428 words)

	List of Yorkshire dialect words of Old Norse origin
		The Old English cognate bæce may also be the source of the dialect word, though the fact that beck is generally confined to the Danelaw and the north-west as a landscape term suggests an Old Norse etymology.
		cf Swedish sken (to glare), Norwegian skinne (to glare).
		All may be derived from an ancient root word for ship, in the sense of a 'carrying container' and as one primitive form of craft was the wickerwork, basket-like coracle.
	www.viking.no /e/england/e-yorkshire_norse.htm (3062 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		In that year, the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America was officially rechristened the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the synods that coalesced in 1960 to form the present American Lutheran Church.
		English should and must be the only medium of instruction in public, private and denominational or other similar schools.
		He proudly disclosed that his young daughter was a Norwegian monolingual, a claim he doubted that all opponents of the resolution could make on behalf of their children.
	www.naha.stolaf.edu /pubs/nas/volume27/vol27_10.htm (7435 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Library: Origin of Words II
		English has not borrowed as extensively from Greek as it has from Latin; however, there are still thousands of words borrowed from Greek or based on Greek roots.
		The important point is that the meanings of these words are what they are because of the original meanings of the Greek roots in them.
		Not all words borrowed from Norwegian supplanted native English words.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/ling008_a.html (1227 words)

	Old English - The Key to its spelling
		English spelling was standardized (at the word level) but it was never regularized.
		And these words to some degree became standardized: if you spelled a word as it was spelled by The Bard, it could not be wrong, and it could not be misunderstood.
		It was the first "modern committee translation", that is, the first time a group of scholars were gathered to compare multiple copies of the ancient text to determine what the original words must have been, the first time several experts in the ancient languages had to agree on the correct translation of each passage.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/oldenglish.html (3235 words)

	Dear Pedant's Words Page
		It was originally directed at a dice player unable to "crap out", but now of course has the broader meaning of "either do it or get out of the way and let someone else have a go" (or even just "make up your mind").
		Dear Max: The official origin concerns the 16th century method of killing a pig, in which the animal was suspended from a beam by the insertion of a piece of bent wood (for which the contemporary term was "bucket") behind the tendons of its hind legs.
		This may be too complicated for your grandson (you don't say how old he is), but the fact is the word "ear", when used for corn, is descended from a different line of words from the word "ear" when used for the things we hear with.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1485/words.html (9890 words)

	Take Our Word For It Issue 55
		It originated in the 17th century, at which time the Germans adopted a sort of military punishment from the Swedes in which a man was stripped to the waist and made to run between two rows of soldiers, who struck him with sticks or knotted ropes.
		The word came to be pronounced and spelled thus by contamination from gauntlet "a glove worn as part of medieval armor".
		There is, interestingly, the modern Norwegian word flara "to blaze, to flaunt in gaudy attire,", but there is no known connection with the late development of meaning for flare: "to burn with an unsteady, spreading flame" (circa 1700).
	www.takeourword.com /Issue055.html (1591 words)

	On the Norwegian language (Norway - the official site in the United States)
		However, Norwegian dialects were used in speech, and in the cities, a Danish-based spoken variety gradually arose, especially for formal use.
		The slogan among New Norwegian activists is that you should use your local dialect and write New Norwegian, "the common denominator of all dialects." One of the results of this is that many users of New Norwegian write an unsystematic blend of dialects, Nynorsk, and Bokmål.
		However, the Norwegian Language Council, Norsk språkråd, should seek to establish a national consensus on the issue and hope that the new system will replace the old, which is still favored by a lot of Norwegians, including businessmen and -women, and the Conservative press.
	www.norway.org /News/archive/2001/200105language.htm (2651 words)

	Fascinating English word histories and English vocabulary development including etymologies
		Each analysis of a word is presented from the view point of etymology; that is, from the meaning of the word according to its origin.
		The forerunners of English crossed the Channel in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. The major Germanic contributors to English were brought by people from the northeastern corner of the European mainland, around Jutland and southern Denmark: the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
		Their impact on English was greatest in northern areas of Britain, where thy settled, but the language as a whole is indebted to Old Norse for such basic words as anger, egg, knife, law, and leg.
	www.getwords.com /index.html (1659 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Etymology of Fuck
		It's almost guaranteed, therefore, any word from before the time of automobiles did not spring to life from a series of initials becoming so common that folks began pronouncing it as its own word.
		The second path has the word deriving from the short form of 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.' Variously, adulterers, rapists, child molesters, and them wot engaged in premarital hanky panky were, as part of their punishment, sentenced to wear a placard announcing their wrongdoing.
		In plain English, this means the term's origin is likely Germanic, even though no one can as yet point to the precise word it came down to us from out of all the possible candidates.
	www.snopes.com /language/acronyms/fuck.asp (1323 words)

	Uppsala Student English Corpus (USE)
		The Uppsala Student English corpus (USE) is a machine-readable collection of essays from the Department of English, Uppsala University, spanning the years 1999-2001.
		Lengthy tables, lists of words, and appendices, irrelevant to the study of learner English, were removed (the place was marked in the document).
		Essay deadlines approaching, students were reminded to hand in electronic copies of their original essays to the USE compilers at the same time as they submitted a printed original to their essay tutors.
	www.engelska.uu.se /use.html (3308 words)

	Jörg Zuther's Word Weird Web Index
		several lists of words and terms where the consonant groups at the beginning of the (parts of the) words have been exchanged, such as "flash cow", "cop porn", "Moßgrufti" and "Bartzitter-Schokolade"...
		According to my definition of anagram, palindromes can be seen as very peculiar anagrams since the backward arrangement of the letters of a piece of text is only one among a usually astronomic number of possible arrangements.
		The only limitations are: The letters have to be connected in the same order as in the word and in one word you are not allowed to use the same letter cube twice.
	www.joergzuther.de /words/index.html (3269 words)

	Old English Lexicon (appendix to the Old English Grammar): an article by Cyril Babaev
		Such words denoting things which were not common for Germanic people include dry' 'a druid' from Celtic drui'; bratt 'a coat', cumb 'a valley', etc. One of them is the usual English word down, Old English du'n from Celtic *dunum 'a hill'.
		The word itself is rather widespread in Indo-European languages (see Word-A-Week issue for reg'-), the phonological analysis shows it is still a borrowing: the Proto-IE root reg'- would have given the Germanic e' (Gothic e', Old English* e', ae', Old High German a'), but it gave i which is itsself typical for Celtic.
		This small group of words was borrowed from unknown languages, and a deep research is still needed to discover their true origins.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /archive/article19.html (1993 words)

	"Of Saxons, Angles, and Jutes"
		The terms English, England, and East Anglia are derived--fairly transparently--from words referring to the Angles: Englisc (vernacular writers referred to themselves by this term), Angelcynn, and Englaland.
		The occurrence of a word of Latin origin in several Germanic dialects probably indicates that it was borrowed during the continental period.
		We can say then that the word for "cheese" had been borrowed during the Continental period, was still in use during the prehistoric OE period, and has been in continuous use from the time it was borrowed to the present day.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/oe.html (2212 words)

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		Word Play: This is an incredible collection of sites that will appeal particularly to people who love the English language.
		Word Slide Applet : like the puzzle you had as a kid, where you slid the letter tiles around to form words.
	www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us /pvphs/English.html (2277 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.1578: Green, Lg & History in Early Germanic World
		Non-English words are usually glossed, but the author assumes a broad familiarity with the languages under discussion, as well as the traditional dialectal division into East Germanic (Gothic), North Germanic (Old Norse- Icelandic) and West Germanic (Old High German, Old Saxon and Old English).
		Throughout, the Latin words Germania and Germani are used of the Germanic linguistic area and the speakers of Germanic languages to avoid confusion with modern Germany and Germans.
		These three words must be seen in their interplay which testifies to complex military, political and legal changes in the Germania.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-1578.html (2521 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English
		This is a collection of tables listing words from the many languages that have contributed words to English.
		For some languages the word list is complete; for others (French, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish) only a selection of borrowed words is given as there are so many.
		Word from around the world that one day may enter the English language.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow.html (432 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.826: Kristoffersen, Phonology of Norwegian
		For the specialists in Norwegian it will be in its place to mention that Kristoffersen grounds his research mostly on urban varieties of Standard East Norwegian, but also takes into account different dialect data.
		TONAL ACCENTS in Norwegian are possibly one of the most discussed and most controversial area of the language's phonetics and phonology.
		For non-native speakers of Norwegian this contribution is especially priceless it adds lots of data to those available through the three pronouncing dictionaries of Norwegian.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-826.html (1803 words)

	Online Dictionary, Language Guide, Foreign Language and Etymology - AllWords.com
		Exactly the same it is also with the search for the origin of words.
		Their dictionary includes every day words like the and day, that told what they used to be before we got them.
		The search option allows you to view the words and phrases that are available for each letter of the alphabet.
	www.allwords.com /Etymology.php (541 words)

	Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		This study shows a certain utility.… But its chief excuse is its human interest, for it prods deeply into national idiosyncracies and ways of mind, and that sort of prodding is always entertaining.—
		This classic was written to clarify the discrepancies between British and American English and to define the distinguishing characteristics of American English.
		Mencken’s groundbreaking study was undoubtedly the most scientific linguistic work on the American language to date and continues to serve as a definitive resource in the field.
	www.bartleby.com /185/index.html (148 words)

	TÜRKÇE - UKRAINCE - INGILIZCE SÖZLÜK VE REHBER KITAP. Turkish - Ukrainian - English dictionary and reference ...
		Thus many Ukrainian words were borrowed from Turkish / Tatar (Turkic) languages.
		Ukrainian word hamanets' (wallet / purse) was also borrowed from Turkic (where for example in Crimean Tatar hemiyan or Chuvash haman means leather purse, bag.
		A commonly used name of Turkic origin, which in 17th century entered Polish from Ukrainian (in Polish it is berkut, birkut).
	www.personal.ceu.hu /students/97/Roman_Zakharii/turkce.htm (1769 words)

	List of parts of speech: Adjective verb noun
		List of parts of speech: Adjective verb noun
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		Vocabulary in english: List of english adverbs •
	pimsleur.english-test.net /vocabularies/list-of-parts-of-speech-adjective-verb-noun.html (293 words)

	LINGUIST List 9.813: Eng. Words of Arabic Origin,
		That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list.
		Dear linguists, whenever a word begins with a vowel in German orthography, a glottal stop is automatically added before in pronunciation.
		in which words cannot usually begin with a vowel, but may begin with a glottal stop, whereas the glottal stop is not found in other positions.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/9/9-813.html (353 words)

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	www.translatorscafe.com /translations/Italian/Norwegian (1592 words)

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