GRIMOIRE

One of the infinite variety of medieval handbooks on  magic or collections of spells. The important thing to note is that a  grammarye, from which grimoire derives, was originally a grammar in  fact, one that actually taught the correct usage of a language. The other  word derived from grammar was glamour, the spell of witchcraft.  Indeed, the word spell itself is associated with magic, because the first  alphabets (Assyrian, Cuneiform, Egyptian, Phoenician, Hebrew, etc.) were  composed of magical letters or "glyphs", each of which had a numinous meaning of its own. So to cast a spell was to take full advantage of the  words of the incantation, from the inside out.

This dictionary, I hope we can say, is an attempt to bridge both the  ancient and modern senses of the word at the same time.

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According to one theory, Papiamento grew out of the pidgin Portuguese and Judeo-Portuguese spoken among Sephardic Jews and their slaves who had fled from Dutch Brazil after its conquest by Portugal. Also a Portuguese Creole (or pidgin) from Cape Verde reached the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao), it was brought by the Sephardic Portuguese Jews of Cape Verde, and it was a mixture of the Mina Portuguese Creole/Pidgin (a mixture of Cape Verdean Creole/Pidgin with Twi) and "Angolar" Portuguese Creoles/Pidgins (areas of Angola and Congo ...

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Creole - Portuguese-based (often also classified as Iberian-based) Papiamento is a creole language of uncertain origin. Many modern scholars believe it to be based mainly on Portuguese, African languages, Dutch, and the Arawak language, with Spanish being a modern influence. Others, to the contrary, contend that it originated from Spanish, and was subsequently influenced by Portuguese. Proponents of the portuguese origin of Papiamento contend that it can easily be compared and linked with other Portuguese creoles, especially th ...

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Most of the vocabulary is derived from Portuguese and Spanish, and most of the time the real origin is unknown due to the great similarity between the two Iberian languages and the adaptations required by Papiamento. Linguistic studies have shown that roughly two thirds of the words in Papiamento's present vocabulary are of Spanish or Portuguese origin, a quarter are of Dutch origin, and the rest come from other tongues. Examples of words that can be impossible or where the determination is very difficult: Por fabor = Ple ...

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Since the late 1800s, the word paradigm (IPA: /pæɹɘdaɪm/) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. Initially the word was specific to grammar: the 1900 Merriam-Webster dictionary defines its technical use only in the context of grammar or, in rhetoric, as a term for an illustrative parable or fable. Also, in linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure used paradigm to ...

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The word subjective has several denotations: It has several dictionary definitions: see Wiktionary:Subjective. For senses of this word in philosophy, see subject (philosophy). In grammar, it refers to the nominative case. In statistics, it refers to personal probability. In economics, it refers to economic subjectivism. The converse of 'subjective' is objective. Other related archivesdenotations, economic subjectivism, econ

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Papiamento - Phrase samples. Bonbiní! = Welcome!, Portuguese Bem vindo, Spanish, bienvenido) Bon dia = Good morning, Portuguese Bom dia; Spanish Buenos dias Bon tardi = Good evening, Portuguese Boa tarde, Spanish buenas tardes Bon nochi = Good night (Portuguese, Boa noite; Spanish, Buenas noches) Kon ta bai? or Kon ta ku bida? = How are you? or How is life?, Portuguese, Como vai?/Como está com a vi ...

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Nahuatl (Nawatl) (pronounced in two syllables, NA-watl ['na.watɬ]) is a term applied to some members of the Aztecan or Nahuan sub-branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. Often the term Nahuatl is used specifically with reference to the language called Classical Nahuatl, which was the language of the Aztec empire and therefore used as a lingua franca in much of Mesoamerica from the 7th century AD until the late 16th century, at which time its prominence and influence wa ...

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It is still disputed whether Papiamento originated from Portuguese or from Spanish. Due to the resemblance between the two tongues, it is often impossible to tell whether a particular word came from one or from the other. Since Spanish seems to be the largest influence on the lexicon, Papiamento is often said to be derived from Spanish. However, historical constraints and its core vocabulary suggest that the first ingredients were Portuguese and languages of West Africa, and that the Dutch and Spanish influence occurred at at a later ...

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Most Papiamento vowels are based on Ibero-Romance vowels, but some are also based on Dutch vowels like : ee, ui, ie, oe, ij, ei, oo, and aa. Papiamento is a tonal language, which is unusual in creoles, and probably influenced by African tones. Tones in creoles can also be found in Saramaccan. ...

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Most of the vocabulary is derived from Portuguese and Spanish, and most of the time the real origin is unknown due to the great similarity between the two Iberian languages and the adaptations required by Papiamento. Linguistic studies have shown that roughly two thirds of the words in Papiamento's present vocabulary are of Spanish or Portuguese origin, a quarter are of Dutch origin, and the rest come from other tongues. Examples of words that can be impossible or where the determination is very difficult: Por fabor = Ple ...

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Papiamento - Phrase samples. Bon bini! = Welcome!, Portuguese Bem vindo, Spanish, bienvenido) Bon dia = Good morning, Portuguese Bom dia; Spanish Buenos dias Bon tardi = Good evening, Portuguese Boa tarde, Spanish buenas tardes Bon nochi = Good night (Portuguese, Boa noite; Spanish, Buenas noches) Con ta bai? or Con ta cu bida? = How are you? or How is life?, Portuguese, Como vai?/Como está com a vi ...

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Like for most South Pacific languages, classical descriptions are generaly based on the system used for indo-european languages, especialy concerning grammatical classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives..). Today linguists try to escape from it considering it as a form of glottocentrism, even if any perfect description is an utopia. Most examples are taken from Cook Islands Maori Dictionary, by Jasper Buse with Raututi Taringa edited by Bruce Biggs and Rangi Moeka'a, Auckland, 1995. Cook Islands Maori - Personnal deictics. Si ...

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The grammar of the Goa'uld language is fairly simple to grasp, the language uses a subject verb object (SVO) word order, as in English. Goa'uld language - Pronouns. The pronouns of Goa'uld are fairly simple. At present, it is believed that Goa'uld has no third-person pronoun; instead, one uses the proper noun for that object. The pronouns are: "Ta"=I "Lo"=You To form the plural of either of the above pronouns, one simply adds the suffix -p. For example: "Ta ...

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The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, by Antônio Houaiss (1915 – 1999), son of Lebanese immigrants in Brazil and former Brazilian Minister of Culture, was created with the support of almost two hundred lexicographers from several countries and is the most complete Portuguese dictionary to date (about 228,500 entries, 376,500 acceptations, 415,500 synonyms, 26,400 antonyms and 57,000 historical words) It includes all variations of the Portuguese language (African, Asian, Brazilian and European Portuguese). Dedicating his life to t ...

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Kia orāna or kia ora ana : hello, Kia manuia  : bye Pē'ea koe : How are you ? Meitaki (ma'ata) : I'm (very) fine, Meitaki !  : thank you ! Ko 'ai koe ?/ ko'ai to'ou ingoa ? : who are you ? /What's your name ? Ko … au ? ko … toku ingoa : I'm …, / my name is… Ka kite  : see you āpōpō: tomorrow Inana'i : yesterday 'ārote : plough Ua : rain, rainy 'akakore : abolish, give up Mōtokā : car Kino  ...

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English grammar displays minimal inflection compared with some other Indo-European languages. For example, Modern English, unlike Modern German and the Romance languages, lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement. Case marking has almost disappeared from the language and mainly survives in pronouns. The patterning of strong (eg. speak/spoke/spoken) versus weak verbs inherited from Germanic has declined in importance and the remnants of inflection (such as plural marking) have become more regular. At the same time as inf ...

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English grammar displays minimal inflection compared with some other Indo-European languages. For example, Modern English, unlike Modern German or Dutch and the Romance languages, lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement. Case marking has almost disappeared from the language and mainly survives in pronouns. The patterning of strong (eg. speak/spoke/spoken) versus weak verbs inherited from Germanic has declined in importance and the remnants of inflection (such as plural marking) have become more regular. At the same ti ...

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