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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Etymology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Etymology is the study of the origins of words.
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.hallencyclopedia.com /Etymology   (1081 words)

  
 Finnish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is classified as an agglutinative language.
Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
www.school-explorer.com /Finnish   (5569 words)

  
 Finland encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Finland politics and officials, Finland History. Travel to Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Finnish linguistic situation is to some extent comparable to that of much of the Arabic speaking world, where Classical Arabic is used in official and religious speech and in the literature, whereas colloquial forms of Arabic are used in everyday conversation and in personal letters.
Finnish children usually acquire the knowledge of the standard language when educated in school, but many children who read much learn it as their written "first language".
Finnish does not use the visually similar diaeresis notation, as used in French and English words such as coördinate or naïve.
www.finlandiworld.com /wiki-Finnish_language   (5038 words)

  
 Articles - Finnish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Finnish (´´´´) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.
Finnish had a larger array of different fricatives, but has lost most of them, leaving.
Finnish has a consonant inventory of small to moderate size, where voicing is not distinctive, and there are only
www.westdome.com /articles/Finnish_language   (5392 words)

  
 German English: L
"Blackwell hadn't said two words to anybody, drinking lager instead of sake and packing his food away as though he were trying to plug something, some gap in security that could be taken care of if you stuffed it methodically with enough sashimi." William Gibson, Idoru, 1997, p.
To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal: 1855-1960, by Richard Lindberg, 1998-->
"The word 'power' runs like a leitmotif through other descriptions of Theodore Senior: he was a person of inexorable drive." Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 2001.
www.germanenglishwords.com /rlgl.htm   (2818 words)

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