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	Etymologically Speaking...
		Originally, the crushed seeds were mixed with vinegar--much as we enjoy it today--but the vinegar was eventually replaced for a time in the Middle Ages with grape "must" (a byproduct of the winemaking process).
		Coming to English via the French word meaning the same, this word is thought to derive ultimately from the Latin word lamella, a "thin plate," referring to the long, flat shape of the omlette, and to represent a gradual corruption of allumelle first to allumelette, then to alomelette (Le cuisiner francois of 1651 has aumelette).
		The Russian term "tsar" (or "czar") originally came from the Latin term "caesar," which was adopted as a tile by Roman Emperors after the death of Julius Caesar, as a means of underscoring the legitimacy of their claim to power and of connecting themselves to Caesar's legacy.
	www.westegg.com /etymology (10422 words)

	Indian English information - Search.com
		Indian English refers to the dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in the Republic of India (estimates of the total number of speakers of English in India vary from around 10 to 20 percent of the population), and also by Indian diaspora elsewhere in the world.
		American English, due to the burgeoning influence of American pop culture on the rest of the world, has begun challenging traditional British English as the premier brand of English spoken in the Indian subcontinent, though this is largely limited to the youth in the last decade or two.
		Main articles: List of English words of Hindi origin, List of English words of Tamil origin, List of English words of Bengali origin, List of English words of Punjabi origin, List of English words of Sanskrit origin, List of English words of Urdu origin, and List of English words of Malayalam origin
	www.search.com /reference/Indian_English (4877 words)

	www.tamilar.org - Tamil - A Living Classical Language. No Latin, No Greek, No Sanskrit. One and Only TAMIL has its name
		As Sanskrit is the most conservative and least changed of the Indo-Aryan languages, Tamil is the most conservative of the Dravidian languages, the touchstone that linguists must consult to understand the nature and development of Dravidian.
		Originally it was derived from the word tamil /tamiz>.
		The overwhelming influence of Sanskrit scholars and the indiscriminate borrowing of Sanskrit words resulted in the emergence of Kannada and Telugu as distinct languages from Tamil some fifteen hundred years ago.
	www.tamilar.org /classical-tamil.asp (5818 words)

	History of English
		The English language is spoken by 750 million people in the world as either the official language of a nation, a second language, or in a mixture with other languages (such as pidgins and creoles.) English is the official language in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; however, the United States has no official language.
		English is classified genetically as a Low West Germanic language of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Indian English is characterized by treating mass nouns as count nouns, frequent use of the "isn't it?" tag, use of more compounds, and a different use of prepositions.
	www.ielanguages.com /enghist.html (3840 words)

	English
		English is descended from the language spoken in the English Isles by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who came to the British Isles around 450 AD and drove the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants to areas that are
		English loanwords now appear in many languages, especially in the fields of technology and culture, and international terminology is dominated by English words.
		English spread from Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries to North America, the Caribbean, and northern Ireland; and in the 18th and 19th centuries to South Asia and Africa.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/English.html (1303 words)

	Take Our Word For It Issue 73
		The origin of the Latin is not known with certainty.
		Chaucer's use of the word, in Boethius, is the earliest surviving example of it in English.
		Other descendants of that root are English numb (benumb), the notion there being "to have one's senses taken"; nimble "quick at seizing (or learning)"; -nome and -nomy, as in metronome and astronomy, "division, district (of learning)"; and possibly even number, the sense of which is evident in the "assign, allot" meaning of nem-.
	www.takeourword.com /Issue073.html (3160 words)

	Ancient Sanskrit Online
		Believed to be of divine origin, this large body of material, in an archaic and unfamiliar language, was handed down orally, from generation to generation, by priests in ancient India.
		The word paçú is not present; and what is more, the interpretation that she gives for paçú, "sacrificial victim," is the later, ritual sense used by the texts of the Veda.
		The word sandhi is used to describe the way in which sounds change as a result of adjacent sounds, both within words and across word boundaries, and it is a natural phenomenon in speech.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/centers/lrc/eieol/vedol-0-R.html (5704 words)

	Latin Key to Better English words for learning English vocabulary and their 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 (1698 words)

	Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin
		Sanskritic, is a completely dead language today, but Sanskrit and Pali, which are the two languages surviving from ancient times, are important even today: Sanskrit is the classical language of India and Hinduism, in which most scriptures (Veda Grantha), epics (Mahabharata, Bhagavat Gita) and ancient literature is written.
		However words were rarely substituted to English words, as it happened during Old English and Middle English periods, with Latin and French words.
		Hindi chint, from Sanskrit citra - shiny, variegated
	www.wmich.edu /dialogues/themes/indianwords.htm (3061 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions for Sanskrit Documents site
		Sanskrit is not used in daily conversation (except in certain families) although sizable number of words in vernacular languages have originated from Sanskrit.
		Sanskrit language is just a tool, and we hope that you will use it to improve "quality of your life." You could continue your studies in Sanskrit literature by reading document of your choice, or follow your own interests in the literature.
		Professor Pollack is involved with the team of scholars in the project "The Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems, on the eve of colonialism," investigating the structure and social context of Sanskrit "science and knowledge" during the years from 1550 to 1750.
	sanskritdocuments.org /sanskritfaq.html (10544 words)

	KryssTal : The Origin of Words and Names
		Words ending in J are not common in English so the spelling quickly changed to a NARANGE.
		Words can be combined to form new words (air and port gave airport; land and mark to give landmark).
		A collection of words in the English language that were originally borrowed from other languages.
	www.krysstal.com /wordname.html (913 words)

	dsng.net - the daryl sng blog: English words that are borrowed from Malay
		The obvious ones are words for things that are indigenous to the region - plants (durian, rambutan, bamboo, sago, camphor), animals (orang-utan, pangolin, cassowary), and cloth (gingham, sarong).
		The Bahasa Melayu word for "lizard" is cicak.
		The original English pronunciation (te{lm}), sometimes indicated by spelling tay, is found in rimes down to 1762, and remains in many dialects; but the current (ti{lm}) is found already in the 17th c., shown in rimes and by the spelling tee.]
	www.dsng.net /2005/02/english-words-that-are-borrowed-from.html (2558 words)

	Sanskrit Documents List: Projects Listing
		A list of common errors in transliteration and Sanskrit conjunts, and others should be prepared to assist the newcomers to transliterations and Sanskrit.
		Sanskrit is chosen as one of the most flexible but still structured languages for machine language and Artificial Intelligence studies.
		Prepare a list of 100 sentences in Sanskrit and their meaning which could be used in daily conversation at home with children, on phone with friends.
	sanskritdocuments.org /projects_list1.html (4131 words)

	Origin and development of Sanskrit
		The word Prot-Indo-European language was used to designate the root or the source language, which existed probably sometime in 7000 BC in a region about which we have no common agreement, but which is considered by the majority to be Anatolia in Turkey, otherwise known as Asia Minor or little Asia.
		Dravidian Origin: Another view which is not accepted in the west, but which is proposed in India is that the common proto language of Sanskrit was none other than some proto Dravidian language or the language spoken by the Indus people.
		In other words if we want to accept the Anatolian origin of Sanskrit language, and place the south eastern movement of the Proto language from Anatolia to India in the proper of scheme of things, we need to push back the possible period of its occurrence by at least 3500 years to 5000 BC.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /general/sanskrit.asp (2531 words)

	Words: Woe and Wonder
		The word is based on the Latin term for soldier ("milit"), and most major news organizations seem to march in step when they use it.
		The word "subnational" excludes the possibility that a country's national government could be directly guilty of terrorism.
		Since AP doesn't have a rule governing the word terrorism or gunman, he asked the editor of the agency's stylebook, Norm Goldstein, how choices are made.
	www.cbc.ca /news/indepth/words/terrorists.html (3279 words)

	List of English words of Persian origin \| Learn Persian online! \| www.Learn-Persian.com
		However, this article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, via one or more intermediary languages.
		In contrast, intrepid English traders operated in Mediterranean seaports of the Levant from the 1570s, and some vocabulary describing features of Ottoman culture found their way into the English language.
		Other words of Persian origin found their way into European languages— and eventually reached English at second-hand— through the Moorish-Christian cultural interface in the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages thus being transmitted through Arabic or, much later, through Hindi during the British Raj.
	www.learn-persian.com /english/List_of_English_words_of_Persian_origin.php (1187 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		All the English words in the dictionary are found in the CLUVI Corpus, as well as all of the Galician translations.
		English Turkish Dictionary of Psychology: A comprehensive English Turkish dictionary of psychology and related fields with definitions in Turkish compiled and edited by a psychologist.
		English dictionary: Free searchable English dictionary with over 200000 word definitions and list of their synonyms.
	linguistlist.org /sp/Dict.html (7145 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 (256 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 (385 words)

	dictionary com
		List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas
		Most words of Native American language origin are the [[common name]]s for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of [[Native A...
		This is a '''list of common [[Apocopeapocopations]] in the [[English language]]'''.
	nichecreator.com /popvideo/dictionary.com (2285 words)

	List of English words of Arabic origin
		disputed origin; possibly from 'awira "to be damaged," or from Italian avere or French aveir, "property", from Latin habere, "to have"
		Latin form of a Greek word itself adapted from an Aramaic and/or Canaanite form resembling Biblical Hebrew דמשק damasheq.
		the word cipher means zero in Arabic, which was used as a prominent symbol in early secret codes.
	www.khayma.com /fatemah/nashrah/Arabic_origin1/index.htm (358 words)

	Wikijunior talk:Ancient Civilizations/Vedic - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		w:List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Accessed September 13, 2005
		Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary - Accessed September 13, 2005
		I can't read the original sanskrit in my browser (konqueror), does anyone know how to make them work?
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikijunior_talk:Ancient_Civilizations/Vedic (365 words)

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		At the time of the original composition of this version of the essay there had recently been posted on alt.astrology an article called "A Brief Introduction to the History of Astrology" which a contained in my view large number of factual errors.
		The original languages continued to be used for local purposes, such as Aramaic (which completely supplanted Babylonian) and Coptic.
		Below is a partial list of some of the terms in Hindu astrology that appear to have a Greek origin.
	www.robhand.com /histintr.htm (4545 words)

	Words in English: Mini-Projects
		Imagine you are writing for the intelligent lay public; in other words, write so as to make informative and interesting reading matter for colleagues, family, and friends who read.
		Discuss the set(s) of loanwords taken from this language into English, and the social and cultural contact that was the backdrop to this influence.
		Sources of information on this topic include not only books on the history of English, but also, the OED on CD-ROM, if you learn a bit about the searching capabilities, can be searched for entries which have sources in specific languages.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer/Words/miniprojects.html (915 words)

	Ocicats.net: Creative Cat Name Resources
		Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Browseable (but unfortunately not searchable) dictionary of the meanings and origins of words, phrases and proper names not found in conventional dictionaries.
		Names by Origin - Lists of modern and historic names for those who are looking for names associated with a particular culture or nationality.
		Indian Baby Names - Alphabetical lists, separated by gender, of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain names with their Sanskrit meanings.
	www.ocicats.net /catnames.html (1204 words)

	EnciclopedyList of Dacian words - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Romanian language contains about 200-300 words considered by many Romanian scholars to be of Dacian language origin.
		Some of these etymologies are more controversial than others: because there are no significant surviving written examples of the Dacian language, it is difficult to verify, and because the Dacian language may have been relatively close to Latin, some of these words (e.g.
		varză - "cabbage" (or from the Latin word viridia)
	www.adago.com /List_of_Dacian_words.html (731 words)

	English Words from Arabic
		As with the list of Amerindian words, this list isn't exhaustive-- the OED has over 900 words; but the others are obscure (words like enam, sulham, zibib).
		After a second hyphen I give (if possible) the further derivation (Greek, Persian, etc.), or the verbal root (glossed as an infinitive; but the citation form of Arabic roots is actually the 3sg past).
		Some words are borrowed directly from Arabic; but most of these words have taken the scenic route, through Spanish, Italian, and/or French; or through Turkish, Persian, or Urdu; or through Hebrew or Latin.
	www.zompist.com /arabic.html (808 words)

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