Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia - Etymology
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Some words have been derived from other languages, possibly in a changed form (the source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology - English Etymology
As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentiell: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentiell - English Etymology
Technically, Heidegger did not coin the exact term "existentiell". The common German word "existenziell" is usually translated into Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lists Of Etymologies: Encyclopedia Ii - Lists Of Etymologies - Placename Etymology Or Toponymy
Lists of etymologies - Toponyms or Names derived from places. List of toponyms Chemical elements named after places Maghreb toponymy ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cojones: Encyclopedia Ii - Cojones - Use In English
The word has entered popular use in the United States as a slang term meaning to have a brave attitude. It is used in a similar to way to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orange Word: Encyclopedia Ii - Orange Word - Rhyme
Orange is notable as one of the most common words in English that does not rhyme with any other word. The closest "real" approximation is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia - Magus
A Magus (plural Magi, from Latin, via Greek μάγος from Old Persian maguš; Old English: Mage) was a Zoroastrian astrologer-priest fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Data: Encyclopedia - Data
Data is the plural of datum. A datum is a statement accepted at face value (a "given"). A large class of practically important statements...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia - Vowel Length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia - Lady
A lady is a woman who is the counterpart of a lord; or, the counterpart of a gentleman. The term Lady can be used as a title. Lady - Etym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentiell: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentiell - Definition
"Dasein always understands itself in terms of its existence, in terms of its possibility to be itself or not be itself. Dasein has either...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxons: Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxons
Anglo-Saxons is a term that refers to a collection of culturally related Germanic tribes from Angeln. This is a peninsula in the southern...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The: Encyclopedia - The
This article is about the English article "the". For the acronym, see THE. The word the functions primarily as a definite article in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burn Stream: Encyclopedia - Burn Stream
In Scotland, and to some extent in North East England, burn is a name for a stream which is less than a river. Burn stream - Etymology. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Than: Encyclopedia - Than
"Than" is a grammatical particle serving as both conjunction and preposition in the English language. It introduces a comparison, and as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Underground Culture: Encyclopedia - Underground Culture
Underground culture, or just underground, is a term to describe various alternative cultures which either consider themselves different t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - You: Encyclopedia - You
You is the second person plural pronoun in English. In standard English, it serves as the second person singular pronoun as well. In mode...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adieu: Encyclopedia Ii - Adieu - English
Adieu - Etymology. Old English also adew, adewe, adue; French à dieu, from Latin ad, to + deus, God. Adieu - Pronunciation. IPA: WEA...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orange Word: Encyclopedia Ii - Orange Word - Etymology
Orange derives from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree", with borrowings through Persian nārang, Arabic nāranj, Spanish naranja, Late ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Llanito: Encyclopedia Ii - Llanito - Examples: Llanito Compared To Standard Spanish And English
Llanito: Quillo, I'm telling you que no puede... Spanish: Tío, te digo que no puedes... English: Mate, I'm telling you you can't... Llan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecchi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecchi - English Usage
In English, the word is often used in the context of manga and anime. The term Ecchi is applied to anime or manga that has vague sexual c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecchi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecchi - Japanese Usage
Etchi as an adjective can be translated as lewd or sexy, while as a noun it can be translated as sexual intercourse, e.g. to do etchi (et...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loanword: Encyclopedia Ii - Loanword - Loanwords In English
English has many loanwords. In 1973, a computerised survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd edition) was p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme - Rhyme In English
See English poetry Old English poetry is mostly alliterative verse. One of the earliest rhyming poems in English is The Rhyming Poem. Som...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shall And Will: Encyclopedia Ii - Shall And Will - Current Common Usage
At the beginning of the 20th century, the various special cases made it necessary for Fowler's The King's English to devote 20 pages to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shall And Will: Encyclopedia Ii - Shall And Will - Etymology
Both shall and will are verbs of ancient Germanic ancestry. In Proto-Indo-European, an inflected future tense existed, but that tense was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shall And Will: Encyclopedia Ii - Shall And Will - Traditional Usage
Shall and will - Pure system. Shall and will are now most often used as auxiliary or modal verbs. However, they have their origins as m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme - Etymology
The word comes from the Old French rime, ultimately from the Greek ρυθμος (rhythmos) from which "rhythm" also derives. In English, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Etymology
Sources disagree on the origin of the word. The Collins English Dictionary suggests that it derives from a distortion of the Anglo-Romany...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Etymology
Sources disagree on the origin of the word. The Collins English Dictionary suggests that it derives from a distortion of the Anglo-Romany...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme - Rhyme In French
In French, the typical two-phoneme rhyme common in English poetry is called rime suffisante. The rime riche ("rich rhyme") of three phone...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme - Rhyme In Latin
Rhyme was unknown in Latin poetry until it was introduced under the influence of local vernacular traditions in the early Middle Ages. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Data: Encyclopedia Ii - Data - Meaning Of Data Information And Knowledge
The terms information and knowledge are frequently used for the concept. These three concepts are ill defined in the subject matter liter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhyme: Encyclopedia Ii - Rhyme - Types Of Rhyme
The concept of rhyme and its role in poetry vary considerably in different cultures. In modern English, and most European literary tradit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - Fictional Magi
The archetype mage is popularly used in fantasy settings that involve magic. Mage, rather than magus, is the spelling usually encountered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - Etymology
Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) as a direct loan from Old Persian magu�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - History In The Persian Empire
According to Herodotus, the Magi were the sacred caste of the Medes. They organized Persian society after the fall of Assyria and Babylon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - The Maga In India
The Zoroastrians form a very small ethnic group in India known as the Parsis. After invading Arabs succeeded in taking Ctesiphon in 637, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - Etymology
Ketchup - Early uses in English. The word entered the English language in England during the late seventeenth century, appearing in pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Data: Encyclopedia Ii - Data - Uses Of Data In Computing
Raw data are numbers, characters, images or other outputs from devices to convert physical quantities into symbols, in a very broad sense...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pidgin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pidgin - History
Pidgin English from "God's Chinese Son", written by Jonathan Spence http://www.hkfilm.net/pidgin.txt ... See also:Pidgin, Pidgin - Crea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - Ketchup And U.s. Politics
In 1981, US President Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, proposed classifying ketchup as a vegetable as part of Reagan's bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - History
Ketchup in the 1800s referred to any sauce made with vinegar. As the century progressed, tomato ketchup began its ascent in popularity, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - Nutrition
The following table compares the nutritional value of ketchup with raw ripe tomatoes and salsa, based on information from the USDA Food N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ketchup: Encyclopedia Ii - Ketchup - History
The word "ketchup" may have come from the Malay kēchap, a fish sauce that does not contain tomatoes. The Malay word means taste. A more ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - Etymology
Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) as a direct loan from Old Persian magu�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - History In The Persian Empire
According to Herodotus, the Magi were the sacred caste of the Medes. They organized Persian society after the fall of Assyria and Babylon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - Fictional Magi
The archetype mage is popularly used in fantasy settings that involve magic. Mage, rather than magus, is the spelling usually encountered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breakfast: Encyclopedia Ii - Breakfast - Etymological Information
English: 1463, from break (v.) + fast (n.). Cf. Fr. déjeuner "to breakfast," from L. dis-jejunare "to break the fast." The verb is from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breakfast: Encyclopedia Ii - Breakfast - Etymological Information
English: 1463, from break (v.) + fast (n.). Cf. Fr. déjeuner "to breakfast," from L. dis-jejunare "to break the fast." The verb is from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Go Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Go Verb - Origins Of Windan
The Oxford English Dictionary's entry for wand simply states that words like wend, wind, wand, and wander all have a common PIE root, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Magus: Encyclopedia Ii - Magus - The Maga In India
The Zoroastrians form a very small ethnic group in India known as the Parsis. After invading Arabs succeeded in taking Ctesiphon in 637, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pidgin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pidgin - Evolution
The concept originated in Europe among the merchants and traders in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, who used Lingua franca (also na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady - Etymology And Usage
The word comes from Old English hlaifdige; the first part of the word is laif, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hlaford, lord; the se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pidgin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pidgin - Etymology
The word is said to be derived from the Chinese pronunciation of the English word business. The pronunciation for business in Cantonese, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Cultural Significance And Philosophy
The goth subculture is best seen as a late offshoot of romanticism and neoromanticism, with its fascination with the importance of the in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Go Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Go Verb - Origins Of The Past Participle
Gone is closely related the now obsolete verb, gang. Gang means "to walk" or "to go", and is possibly the source of the past participles ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel Length - Long Vowels In English
Vowel length, when applied to English, has several different related meanings. Vowel length - Traditional non-phonetic long and short vo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - English Usage
The word "goth" can be used as a noun. e.g. "My best friend is a goth." Plurally, an S is added. e.g. "At the club there were many goths....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel Length - Vowel Length And Related Features
Stress is often reinforced by allophonic vowel length, especially when it is lexical. For example, French long vowels always occur on str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel Length - Phonemic Vowel Length
Many languages have phonemic long and short vowels: Japanese, Finnish, Hungarian, etc. Estonian has three distinctive lengths, but the th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel Length - Notations In The Latin Alphabet
Vowel length - Diacritics. Macron, used to indicate a long vowel in Maori, Latvian and many transcription schemes, including romanizat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Origins And Influences
Goth - Original subculture. By the late 1970s, there were a small number of post punk bands in Britain labeled "gothic." However, it wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Goth After Post-punk
After the demise of post punk, goth continued to evolve, both musically and visually. This caused variations in style ("types" of goth). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Music
The bands which began the gothic rock and death rock scene were limited in number, and included bands such as Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Religious Elements
Religious imagery has frequently played an important part in gothic fashion and also in song lyrics. However, many goths aspire to "free ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goth: Encyclopedia Ii - Goth - Popular Intolerance
Like many other subcultures, or a religious or ethnic minority, goths have faced differing levels of popular intolerance because of their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vowel Length: Encyclopedia Ii - Vowel Length - Notations In The Latin Alphabet
Vowel length - Diacritics. Macron, used to indicate a long vowel in Maori, Latvian and many transcription schemes, including romanizat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglo-saxons: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglo-saxons - The Anglo-saxon Conquest Controversy
The nature of the Anglo-Saxon invasion is controversial. Traditionally, historians support an Anglo-Saxon conquest and near genocide or e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Family Name - Romania
In Romania family names traditionally have an English-like usage: a child inherits his father's family name, and a wife takes her husband...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toe The Line: Encyclopedia Ii - Toe The Line - Etymology
While the phrase has been indisputably re-used several times throughout history, from naval ships, to boxing, to foot races, the most con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drott: Encyclopedia Ii - Drott - Mythology
In the Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson wrote that Domar married Drott, the daughter of Danp who was the son of Ríg (Heimdall). Snorri wro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecchi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecchi - Japanese Usage
Etchi as an adjective can be translated as lewd or sexy, while as a noun it can be translated as sexual intercourse, e.g. to do etchi (et...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Folk Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Folk Etymology - Instances Of Word Change By Folk Etymology
In linguistic change caused by folk etymology, the form of a word changes so that it better matches its popular rationalisation. For exam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology Of The Word Jew: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology Of The Word Jew - Possibilities Of European Origin
The most common view is that the Middle English word Jew is from the Old French giu, earlier juieu, from the Latin iudeus from the Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loanword: Encyclopedia Ii - Loanword - Classes Of Borrowed Words
Certain classes of loanwords are more common; function words, such as pronouns, numbers, words referring to universal concepts, are usual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shall And Will: Encyclopedia Ii - Shall And Will - Pronunciation
The negative form of shall is shall not, or shan't. Shall is pronounced in three different ways: the non-stressed form: IPA /ʃəl/ the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Media Characterisation And Comment
Chav - Characterisation. The character Vicky Pollard, as portrayed by Matt Lucas in the BBC comedy series Little Britain, is perhaps th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Usage
Though "chav" has similarities to American terms such as "white trash" and "trailer trash", it does not bear the racial overtones of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Stereotype
The stereotype of the chav is defined by critics of the supposed chav lifestyle. Few people identify themselves as chavs. Note, however, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Commercial Impact
The "chav" stereotype and image have had an impact on the commercial world. The Burberry clothing brand became associated with the chav s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Usage
Though "chav" has similarities to American terms such as "white trash" and "trailer trash", it does not bear the racial overtones of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Stereotype
The stereotype of the chav is defined by critics of the supposed chav lifestyle. Few people identify themselves as chavs. Note, however, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Commercial Impact
The "chav" stereotype and image have had an impact on the commercial world. The Burberry clothing brand became associated with the chav s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chav: Encyclopedia Ii - Chav - Media Characterisation And Comment
Chav - Characterisation. The character Vicky Pollard, as portrayed by Matt Lucas in the BBC comedy series Little Britain, is perhaps th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leprechaun: Encyclopedia Ii - Leprechaun - Etymology
There are a number of possible etymologies of the name "leprechaun". One of the most widely accepted theories is that the name comes from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cowardice: Encyclopedia Ii - Cowardice - Etymology
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word "coward" comes from an Old French word coart, a combination of the word for "tail...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - Origins
The dictionary had no university connection originally; it was conceived in London as a project of the Philological Society, when Richard...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The First Editors
Trench played a key role in the first months of the project, but his ecclesiastical career meant that he could not give the dictionary th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford Editors
At the same time the Society had become concerned about the publication of what it was now clear would have to be an immensely large book...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Fascicles
By early 1894 a total of 11 fascicles had been published, or about one per year: four for A-B, five for C, and two for E. Of these, eight...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The First Edition And The First Supplement
It had been planned to publish the New English Dictionary in 10 volumes, respectively starting with A, C, D, F, H, L, O, Q, Si, and Ti; b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Second Supplement And The Second Edition
In 1933 Oxford University had finally put the great dictionary to rest; all work ended, and the quotation slips went into storage. But of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Compact Editions
Meanwhile, in 1971, the full content of the 13-volume OED1 from 1933 was reprinted as a Compact Edition of just two volumes. This was ach...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Electronic Versions
Now that the text of the dictionary was digitized and online, it could also be published on CD-ROM. There have been three versions so far...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - The Third Edition
The planned Third Edition, or OED3, is intended as a nearly complete overhaul of the work. Currently (as of 2005) John Simpson is the Chi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - Spelling
The OED lists British spellings for headwords first (for example, labour and centre), followed by other variants (labor, center, etc.). O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology - History Of Etymology
The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and th...   » Read the article